Name: How Smart DDI Enables Gartner’s 3 Network Automation Recommendations
Start: 2020-11-24T13:55:00Z
End: 2020-11-24T13:55:27.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

EfficientIP is a network automation and security company, specializing in DNS-DHCP-IPAM solutions (DDI), with the goal of helping organizations worldwide drive business efficiency through agile, secure and reliable infrastructure foundations. Integrated solutions enable IP communication and simplify network management with end-to-end visibility and smart automation, while patented technology secures DNS services to safeguard data and ensure application access. Companies in all sectors rely on EfficientIP offerings to face the challenges of key IT initiatives such as cloud applications and mobility. For more details, visit https://www.efficientip.com

Step inside DNS Guardian—the core of EfficientIP’s 360° DNS Security solution—and discover how security teams can stay ahead of today’s most advanced DNS-based threats.

As DNS has become a primary attack vector for malware, phishing, and data exfiltration, traditional defenses have fallen short. DNS Guardian offers a purpose-built, DNS-centric approach that protects data and users through granular application access control and DNS-centric threat intelligence, detects threats early with behavioral analysis, and ensures effective response with adaptive countermeasures. It also guarantees service continuity even under high-volume attacks, thanks to the world’s fastest secure DNS cache.

In this TechExpert session, you’ll see DNS Guardian in action through a live demo showcasing:

Proactive protection with Client Query Filtering leveraging EfficientIP’s DNS-centric threat intelligence (DNS Threat Pulse) for granular access control.
Early threat detection through patented DNS Transaction Inspection (DTI) and real-time behavioral analysis.
Effective response with adaptive, patented countermeasures to ensure service continuity during attacks.

Inside DNS Guardian: Proactively Protect, Detect Early, Effectively Respond

Every DNS query leaves clues — and your traffic holds more insight than you think.
In this live session, EfficientIP experts will show how DNS analysis transforms raw query data into clear, visual intelligence. Through a live demo of EfficientIP’s free DNS Risk Assessment report, built from real traffic, you’ll discover how everyday DNS data can expose hidden threats, risky behaviors, and overlooked vulnerabilities.
You’ll see how your DNS reveals:
- Patterns in DNS traffic – exposing abnormal activity and unexpected query behavior
- Suspicious behaviors – revealing threats hidden in cache and suspicious domains activity
- Tunneling attempts – showing covert data transfers and estimated bytes sent
- Risky applications – identifying unauthorized or vulnerable software across your network
Learn how a few days of DNS data can expose what traditional tools miss - helping you detect risks earlier, improve visibility, and strengthen your overall security posture.
Watch now to turn your DNS traffic into actionable security insight.

What Your DNS Is Trying to Tell You: Reveal Risk in Traffic

91% of security leaders say improving monitoring and analysis of DNS traffic is important to securing cloud infrastructure. This insight comes from a 2025 commissioned study by Forrester Consulting: Forrester Opportunity Snapshot: Embrace DNS Security And Overcome Hurdles Of Cloud Adoption.
As organizations shift to hybrid and multicloud environments, traditional security tools are struggling to keep up. The study reveals how this growing complexity creates blind spots—and why DNS is emerging as a critical, yet often underutilized, layer for visibility, threat detection, and control.
In this webinar, we’ll unpack the study’s key findings and demonstrate how comprehensive DNS Security helps you proactively protect your network, detect threats earlier, respond faster, and strengthen your cloud defenses.
What you’ll see:
Key insights from the Forrester study
How Protective DNS secures modern hybrid networks
A real-live demo of a DNS threat detection
Practical steps to improve your cloud security posture
Register now to turn DNS into your first line of cloud defense. Can't make it live? Register and access the recording.

Embrace DNS Security And Overcome Hurdles Of Cloud Adoption

Fragmented architectures and siloed tools are major blockers to innovation, slowing down responsiveness and operational efficiency. As networks grow more complex, IT teams must connect their tools across network, cloud, and security to gain agility.
In this webinar, discover how EfficientIP’s DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM) acts as the backbone of an integrated infrastructure—serving as a Network Automation Hub that feeds an open, built-in Network Source of Truth, interconnects with your tools from the ecosystem, and improves operational efficiency.
We’ll walk you through:
- 3 levels of integration: no-code (plug-ins), low-code (config-based), and pro-code (APIs)
- How to get started with our SOLIDserver APIs 
- Latest ecosystem integrations with Infrastructure as Code, ITSM, or security devices
- Live demos showcasing some of these integrations
Whether you're looking to boost your automation, enhance visibility, or simply prepare for a more agile future, you will learn how to start building a more integrated ecosystem with SOLIDserver DDI and streamline your operations.

Building an Integrated IT Ecosystem with DDI to gain agility: APIs, Plug-ins, and Real-World Use Cases

As hybrid multicloud adoption accelerates, many organizations are grappling with siloed, inconsistent network management tools that increase complexity and risk. According to the latest EMA research, only a quarter of respondents believe their organizations are completely successful at building and managing their hybrid, multicloud networks.
EfficientIP’s Unified DDI (DNS, DHCP, and IPAM) takes center stage as a foundational pillar for simplifying network operations across hybrid environments. 

In this webinar, you’ll learn how to:
- Centralize management of IP space and DNS
- Build and maintain a comprehensive Network Source of Truth (NSoT)
- Integrate NSoT data to drive automation
- Leverage DNS data for observability 
Plus, don’t miss the live demo showcasing EfficientIP’s NSoT in action—demonstrating how to orchestrate asset deployment and decommissioning with automation.

Join Myriam Herbron,  Product Marketing Director, and Cherif Tounsi, Customer Solutions Architect Manager, to learn how to scale your hybrid multicloud strategies for long-term value with EfficientIP’s DDI, enabling you to maximize efficiency, security, and resilience.

Taming Hybrid Multicloud Complexity: How Unified DDI Powers Automation, Security, and Resilience

As enterprises accelerate their cloud adoption, automating network infrastructure becomes critical for agility, efficiency, and scalability. But true automation starts with a solid foundation: DDI (DNS, DHCP, and IPAM).

In this webinar, we’ll explore how EfficientIP’s DDI solutions fuel an effective Network Source of Truth (NSoT) and serve as the backbone of cloud automation, enabling seamless Infrastructure as Code (IaC) integration with tools like Terraform. Engage in a hands-on demonstration to see how to automate, streamline, and optimize network deployments.
Join us to discover:
- How SOLIDserver DDI simplifies cloud automation
- Why SOLIDserver is an NSoT and its role in automation
- Demos of Terraform integration with SOLIDserver DDI to populate and maintain NSoT data while deploying a VM.

Cloud Automation Unlocked: How DDI Powers Scalable Network Automation

Join us for an insightful webinar that dives into the transformative role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in modern cybersecurity. This session will explore how AI can accelerate and enhance DNS-based threat detection capabilities through a real-world example of Domain Generated Algorithms (DGAs). You will learn 

What a DGA is and its role in cyber threats

How our innovative ML-based algorithm accelerates DGA detection 

The value of EfficientIP’s AI-driven DNS Security solution


Sign up to understand the essential role AI plays in elevating DNS Security, enabling proactive threat management, and ensuring robust network protection in an evolving cyber landscape.

AI in Cybersecurity: Elevating DNS Security and Threat Detection

In a Zero Trust model, where trust is never assumed and borders must constantly be monitored, DNS security serves as your first line of defense. Like a vigilant border agent, DNS continuously verifies and monitors traffic, ensuring only authorized users and devices can move freely within your network. EfficientIP’s 360° DNS Security integrates advanced DNS-centric intelligence and DNS filtering, continuous inspection and observability, and automation into the Zero Trust framework. By enforcing least-privilege access through fine-grained centralized policies, it strengthens security, prevents lateral movement, and minimizes attack surfaces.

In This Webinar, You Will Learn How:
DNS serves as the first line of defense in Zero Trust.
Micro-segmentation and user-based filtering improve access control and security.
Proactive DNS threat detection and adaptive responses mitigate risks in real time.
Advanced observability and integration simplify Zero Trust implementation and scalability.

Join us to learn how DNS security enhances Zero Trust, enabling proactive threat detection and maintaining compliance while ensuring resilient, continuous protection.

DNS - Your Secret Border Control of Zero Trust Security

Further accelerated by the uncertain economic outlook, enterprises of any size are forced to adopt new strategies to achieve greater cost savings, improve efficiency across their operations, and create value. Network Automation is at the forefront of tackling this and enables IT teams to gain the flexibility and agility required by ever-changing business needs. 

Come and learn how the EfficientIP Network Automation Hub solution is a true accelerator to enterprise network automation initiatives.

How the EfficientIP Network Automation Hub Solution is a Success Factor to Network Automation

As networks become increasingly complex and dynamic, driven by hybrid multicloud adoption, virtualization, IoT, and BYOD, the importance of DDI (DNS-DHCP-IPAM) has grown significantly. Effective DDI management is critical to ensuring network availability, performance, and security across these diverse environments. 

This webinar will explore how DDI is a key enabler for network modernization, addressing hybrid multicloud, automation, and security challenges, and why EfficientIP's DDI is the solution of choice. It features perspectives from GigaOM,  who together with EfficientIP will explain how to build robust, scalable, and flexible infrastructures leveraging DDI. 

Here's what you can expect: 
- GigaOM's perspective on the state of the DDI market and trends, the value essential features of DDI bring to customers, key selection criteria when considering DDI, and why choose EfficientIP's DDI solution
- EfficientIP’s deep dive into the critical role of DDI in managing, automating, and securing hybrid multicloud to help networking and security teams increase visibility, agility, and cyber resilience
- Key practical use cases and demos

Understand why DDI is a Key Enabler for Your Network Modernization with GigaOm

Join us for an enlightening webinar on how DDI (DNS DHCP IPAM) serves as a foundational element of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), propelling network teams towards accelerated multi-cloud transformation and enhanced agility in their automation endeavors. 
In this webinar, you will: 
Gain insights into the pivotal role of IPAM as a trusted Network Source of Truth, enabling seamless integration with automation coding initiatives
Learn how built-in DDI automation simplifies tasks such as managing DNS records, network zoning, DHCP ranges, and device pools to further accelerate infrastructure deployment
See it in action with a hands-on demonstration.

Catalyzing Infrastructure as Code with EfficientIP DDI Solutions

The Paris 2024 Olympics encountered far fewer cybersecurity threats than predicted, making the games a huge success for the 1.8 million participants and 4 billion viewers. Such large-scale events are normally prime targets for cyber threats like phishing, DDoS attacks, and ransomware, which can cause significant disruptions and infrastructure downtime.
This webinar delves into the cybersecurity challenges faced during high-profile events like the Olympics. You’ll learn about:
The evolving cyber threat landscape surrounding the Olympics
Real-world DNS-based attacks examples
The critical importance of DNS Security in mitigating these threats
Expanding defenses to protect against a broader range of cyber attacks
Watch the recording of this insightful session to understand the importance of proactive DNS Security in protecting the Olympic Games and other large events.

Paris 2024 Olympics: Defying the Dire Cybersecurity Predictions. How DNS Security helps.

The last IDC threat report shows that 90% of organizations across all verticals suffer DNS attacks, with each attack costing on average $1.1M
Since DNS isn’t generally associated with data delivery, it is often overlooked. Cyber criminals benefit from this assumption to bypass security mechanisms for transporting sensitive data from inside to outside the enterprise.
To protect data confidentiality, organizations need to look beyond traditional security solutions which have proven to be ineffective against data exfiltration via DNS.

Attend the webinar and learn:
- How easily Data Exfiltration via the DNS can be demonstrated
- How DNS Guardian can protect from DNS Data Exfiltration

Data Exfiltration via DNS - Why you can't ignore the risk - DNS Data Exfiltration Tool

We are thrilled to announce the availability of the new SOLIDserver™ DDI 8.4. This release brings exciting new features to improve network data quality for a more comprehensive and effective Network Source of Truth. It also streamlines compliance monitoring by detecting inconsistencies and provides automated reconciliation to accelerate network validation.

Join Myriam Herbron, Product Marketing Director, and Fabien Smeets, Customer Solution Architect, for an insightful webinar to learn how you can empower your network and security teams to automate processes and simplify compliance.

In this session, we will cover:
--Cloud Observer plugin for Cisco Meraki
--Automated IPAM data reconciliation
--Related use cases and demo
--New Features Quick Tour

New SOLIDserver™ DDI 8.4 helps simplify network compliance

Is your organization ready for stricter cybersecurity measures?

NIS 2 enforcement kicks off in October 2024, bringing financial penalties and reputational risks for non-compliant European companies.
This webinar deep dives into how robust DNS security is essential for strengthening cybersecurity resilience.
Discover actionable strategies to strengthen cyber risk management, improve incident response, and ensure compliance.  
By enhancing their DNS security with robust threat intelligence measures, organizations can strengthen their network defenses, minimizing cyber risks, and ensuring compliance with new standards set by the NIS 2 regulation.

Learn how EfficientIP's innovative DNS solution acts as your first line of defense, empowering you to address the security requirements of NIS 2.

NIS 2 Enforcement - Get Your DNS Ready!

Based on IDC’s new survey of 1,000 security personnel, 90% of organizations now suffer DNS attacks, each averaging $1.1M in damage costs.
At the same time, DNS offers a way to strengthen network security and stay ahead of emerging threats.
Learn from IDC Security expert Romain Fouchereau and EfficientIP evangelist Chris Buijs:

1/ Survey Findings
- Key attack types, impacts, and trends
- State of defenses
- The role of DNS in the security ecosystem

2/ IDC’s market view on Key Topics
- Ransomware
- Zero Trust
- Threat Intelligence

3/ How DNS-centric Threat Intelligence enables proactive defense
- DNS Threat Intelligence feeds
- Intelligent observability via DNS traffic monitoring and analysis
- The value of actionable DNS data for the security ecosystem

IDC 2023 Threat Survey Findings: DNS Threat Intelligence for Proactive Defense

Andrew Lerner - Research Vice President, Networking at Gartner will reveal Gartner’s view on the State of Network Automation. He will review the categories of tools within Network automation and provide an aspirational view of the future, what good network automation looks like. He will conclude his session recorded specifically for the presentation with Recommendations from Gartner on the matter.  

This presentation will be followed by a demonstration of Network Automation applied to Application creation with DDI at its core, from a change request placed in a Change tool (e.g. ITSM) to the App being deployed via: 

--IPAM repository provisioning 
--Network & compute creations
--App removal to complete the App Life Cycle

You will also learn how DDI Automation is the hub for Network Automation.

State of Network Automation (Using DDI)

Join Pascal Tangapregassam, EfficientIP Senior Technical Marketing Manager for a webinar where you will see your clouds like never before. This presentation will be focusing on the two EfficientIP products included in the recent SOLIDserver 8.2 release: Network Object Manager and Cloud Observer.

Enhancing Network Automation & Cloud Management !

Taking cues from the Gartner document "3 Ways to Improve Network Automation" (Ted Corbett, Jonathan Forest, Josh Chessman; ID G00382803), this webinar video reviews how smart DDI enables the implementation of Gartner’s 3 recommendation for improving network automation.

How Smart DDI Enables Gartner’s 3 Network Automation Recommendations

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