91% of malware uses DNS to operate — yet most organisations leave this channel completely unguarded. This whitepaper explains how filtering at the DNS layer stops threats before they reach your network, why traditional security tools miss this vector, and how DNSAFE's ThreatGrid closes the gap.
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Key findings and frameworks from the whitepaper.
Traditional security tools — endpoint AV, next-gen firewalls, web proxies, email gateways — all operate downstream of DNS resolution. By the time these tools can act, the initial DNS handshake has already occurred. 91% of malware exploits this gap by using DNS for command-and-control, data exfiltration, and payload delivery.
82% of phishing campaigns use domains registered within the last 30 days. These domains have no reputation history, allowing them to slip past blocklist-based defences entirely. ThreatGrid's NRD tracking flags all newly registered domains automatically and applies elevated risk scoring from the moment of registration.
Universality (every device uses DNS), Speed of Intervention (stops threats before execution), Cost Efficiency (highest security ROI per dollar), and Complementarity (works alongside, not instead of, existing tools). These four properties make DNS filtering the single highest-leverage security investment available to organisations of any size.
Intelligence quality and update frequency, encrypted DNS coverage (DoH/DoT), roaming device support, per-query logging, policy granularity, MSP multi-tenancy, and resolver performance. The whitepaper provides a complete 7-point evaluation framework for comparing solutions.
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