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An organization is using DNS services for their network and want to help improve the security of the DNS infrastructure. Which action accomplishes this task?

The correct answer is D. Configure Cisco Umbrella and use DNSSEC for domain authentication to authoritative servers. To enhance DNS infrastructure security, an organization should configure Cisco Umbrella and leverage DNSSEC to authenticate domain responses from authoritative DNS servers.

Submitted by yousef_jo· Mar 30, 2026Network Security

Question

An organization is using DNS services for their network and want to help improve the security of the DNS infrastructure. Which action accomplishes this task?

Options

  • AUse DNSSEC between the endpoints and Cisco Umbrella DNS servers.
  • BModify the Cisco Umbrella configuration to pass queries only to non-DNSSEC capable zones.
  • CIntegrate Cisco Umbrella with Cisco CloudLock to ensure that DNSSEC is functional.
  • DConfigure Cisco Umbrella and use DNSSEC for domain authentication to authoritative servers.

How the community answered

(46 responses)
  • A
    17% (8)
  • B
    9% (4)
  • C
    4% (2)
  • D
    70% (32)

Why each option

To enhance DNS infrastructure security, an organization should configure Cisco Umbrella and leverage DNSSEC to authenticate domain responses from authoritative DNS servers.

AUse DNSSEC between the endpoints and Cisco Umbrella DNS servers.

DNSSEC is designed to authenticate responses from authoritative DNS servers to recursive resolvers, not typically between endpoints and recursive resolvers like Cisco Umbrella DNS servers.

BModify the Cisco Umbrella configuration to pass queries only to non-DNSSEC capable zones.

Passing queries only to non-DNSSEC capable zones would degrade security by intentionally avoiding the integrity checks that DNSSEC provides.

CIntegrate Cisco Umbrella with Cisco CloudLock to ensure that DNSSEC is functional.

Cisco CloudLock is a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) focused on cloud application security and data protection, and its integration with Umbrella does not directly ensure the functionality or implementation of DNSSEC.

DConfigure Cisco Umbrella and use DNSSEC for domain authentication to authoritative servers.Correct

DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) provides cryptographic authentication of DNS data, ensuring that responses received from authoritative DNS servers are legitimate and untampered. When configured with Cisco Umbrella, DNSSEC enhances the integrity and authenticity of domain name resolution, protecting against DNS spoofing and cache poisoning attacks.

Concept tested: DNSSEC implementation for DNS infrastructure security

Source: https://docs.umbrella.com/umbrella-user-guide/docs/about-dnssec

Topics

#DNSSEC#Cisco Umbrella#DNS security#authoritative DNS

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