Punycode: Awareness and Protection

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Chris Riviere, Technical Solutions Architect at Cisco Umbrella

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This session covers the importance of DNS, a critical component of the Internet and how it's used to identify malicious domains. The emphasis is on Punycode, which uses foreign characters that look like ASCII to impersonate domains. The session covers what these look like across various platforms and what this means for the security landscape.
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