In our everyday lives, we tend to make decisions based on the principle of least privilege. Our decisions related to standard occurrences are instinctively designed to provide ourselves, or those involved, with minimal access to the resources needed to get the job done. Ordering a pizza to your home? The delivery driver will only come as far as your front door since any additional access is unnecessary. Vendor coming to your office for a sales meeting? You won’t be providing them with access to your electrical closet. The principle of least privilege helps us keep our belongings, data, and ourselves as safe and secure as possible. In the following post, we’ll be discussing How To Protect Your Domain Names Integrity.

The principle of least privilege is a critical component of IT services. System Guard uses this principle in order to help keep your sensitive company data restricted to just the individuals and applications that need the access. Along with your company data is another vital aspect of your business that System Guard can help protect: your domain name. Maintaining the integrity of your company’s domain name helps keep your operations running smoothly.

A domain name is a core function of the internet that you use on a daily basis if you spend any time online. Every website on the internet is reached via it’s domain name. In our case, the domain name for System Guard Company is gtallbus.com.

The domain name is the central component of your company’s presence on the internet

When talking about a business, you may have seen or heard reference to their website’s “URL”. A URL is a full address to access a website which incorporates the organization’s domain name such as https://gtallabus.com/. The domain name is the central component of your company’s presence on the internet.

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How do I protect my domain name’s integrity?

The most important factor in keeping your domain name working properly is by ensuring that only trusted individuals have the ability to access its internal settings. The inner workings of your domain name and what IP addresses it points to is found within what is called a DNS zone file. Management of the DNS zone file can be found in a few potential locations depending on configuration, but is usually found within the same location that your domain name was purchased. This location is called your domain’s registrar. Because of the sensitive nature of a DNS zone file, even a single typo within it can prevent your domain name from routing as expected. This could potentially result in your website not working, or email ceasing to function. In a worst case scenario, the domain could even be maliciously routed to malware or transferred to a new owner if the registrar access falls into the wrong hands.

Circling back to the principle of least privilege, it is important to ensure that vendors requesting access or modifications to your company’s DNS records are granted only at the minimum required level. Let’s say that you are working with a website developer to design a new modern website for your company. They may ask for access to your DNS records in order to point your domain name to their servers. Because your domain name affects more than just access to your website, the website developer should not be provided access that would allow them to modify those other paths. Unfortunately, there have been many examples in the past of this occurring, resulting in said developer applying their own DNS zone file template with good intentions but resulting in negative consequences. The easiest way to avoid this type of situation is by requesting that the vendor provide the recommended setting changes for review and implementation by the trusted DNS management team such as System Guard Company.

So how can you minimize the chance of a similar situation happening to your business? At System Guard, we take pride in using great care when managing and maintaining your IT environment. As a valued client, Diligex can manage your domain name records for you to remove the worry that modifications are being performed by those who may not be fit for the task. The team here at System Guard is well skilled in the art of maintaining DNS zone files as well as all of the other IT tasks that help your business succeed. You can trust that our skilled professionals will take great care in managing your domain’s DNS records. The well being of your business is our top priority and it all begins with your company’s presence and accessibility. By letting System Guard manage your company’s domain records and other IT needs, your business can focus on what really matters most: success.

Whether you are an existing System Guard Company client that wants to ensure that your domain records are in good hands, or are curious as to how System Guard Company can help your company prosper through well-managed IT support, reach out to us at https://gtallabus.com/