This list addresses the most common and dangerous threats to employees and consumers.
In addition, OTA recommends that private sector as well as government agencies consider the following:
Initiate planning to support DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC). DNSSEC adds security to the DNS and is designed to help address man-in-the-middle attacks and cache poisoning by authenticating the origin of DNS data and verifying its integrity while moving across the Internet. DNSSEC is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) set of specifications that secures communication between DNS name servers and clients. With the root zone signed for .org, .net, .gov and recently .com, the number of domains using DNSSEC and the number of resolvers conducting validation will increase.