CLOUDFLARE WINS CONTRACT TO OFFER REGISTRY AND AUTHORITATIVE DNS SERVICES

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 16 (Bernama) -- Cloudflare Inc, the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, has been awarded a US$7.2 million contract from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to provide Registry and Authoritative Domain Name System (DNS) services to the .gov TLD (Top Level Domain). (US$1 = RM4.33)

In a statement, Cloudflare said with this contract, it would provide managed name servers for the .gov zone and authoritative DNS hosting for .gov domain names.

DNS is a core Internet service that is foundational to the security of the applications that sit on top of it and DNS services guide visitors to the site.

“The Internet has made the United States government more accessible for constituents than ever before, whether they're applying for a passport, learning health and safety recommendations for their communities or reaching out to a representative.

“Having a reliable and secure DNS for government agencies is critical to instill trust in all .gov activity, and working with us to achieve this is a testament to the reliability and security of the Cloudflare network,” said its co-founder and chief executive officer, Matthew Prince.

CISA turned to Cloudflare to provide registry and DNS services to meet the need for highly available DNS services that enhance resilience and simplify security operations for .gov domain users.

Cloudflare will support CISA’s goals by reducing the attack surface of .gov-related infrastructure and government organisations, and automate sensitive portions of DNS security management, setting DNS records that make it hard to successfully impersonate the government in email by default and offering new features.

Additionally, CISA will gain visibility to better detect and prevent certain DNS ecosystem issues.

CISA, the nation’s risk advisor, builds the nation’s capacity to defend against cyber attacks by providing cybersecurity tools, incident response capabilities, and assessment services to safeguard the Federal information technology enterprise, state and local partners, and systems that support national critical functions.

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