Azure Updates

Azure DNS now supports DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) in our azure public cloud, a significant enhancement to our DNS services. This new feature provides an additional layer of security to your domain names, ensuring the integrity and authenticity of your DNS data. API, CLI and PowerShell is available today, with portal being deployed over the next 2 weeks. For more information, please refer to our Azure DNSSEC documentation. 

 What is DNSSEC? 

DNSSEC is a suite of extensions to DNS that adds security to the domain name system. It helps protect against certain types of attacks, such as cache poisoning and man-in-the-middle attacks, by enabling DNS responses to be verified for authenticity. With DNSSEC, you can be confident that the DNS responses you receive are exactly what the domain owner intended. 

Key Benefits of DNSSEC on Azure DNS 

• Enhanced Security: DNSSEC helps prevent attackers from manipulating or poisoning DNS responses, ensuring that users are directed to the correct websites. 
• Data Integrity: By signing DNS data, DNSSEC ensures that the information received from a DNS query has not been altered in transit. 
• Trust and Authenticity: DNSSEC provides a chain of trust from the root DNS servers down to your domain, verifying the authenticity of DNS data. 

For detailed instructions, please refer to our Azure DNSSEC documentation.