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This report benchmarks the DNS security posture of 25 of the largest players in the US Retail Sector.

The IT Director is the one who receives the stress-inducing, “Critical”, “Urgent”, “ASAP”, “Priority 1”, “Production Critical”, “Revenue Impacting”, or “Brand Damaging” emails at all hours from the NOC because of a domain-related issue.

Over the past decades of domain, DNS and certificate management in the enterprise, there was and is a constant state of fuzzy ownership change. It is more the hot potato in IT where a lack of ownership has created a mess of hidden exposure to all but the technically curious. If you are an IT Director at a large organization, you will likely see yourself in this story.

At the end of every year, there are a flurry of prediction articles that we all like to read. Predictions hold the ‘promise of the possible’.

When any business launches a new innovative service, particularly a technology service, it is critical to listen to prospect questions extremely carefully.

Flawed business processes make this complex operational area effort-intensive, costly, and exposed to security risks.

A process can be short, such as a simple purchase-to-fulfillment process or a complex, long-term asset management process that spans years.

Corporate domain management is all about business process. Many organizations admit their business processes are broken and in need of an overhaul.

Corporate domain management is painful, but it needn’t be. New best practices and modern systems eliminate manual processes, cost, and effort while locking down security exposure that places enterprise at risk.

Corporate domains are held in ever-growing portfolios for years. These critical, digital assets demand ongoing governance and compliance at increasing cost, effort and IT security risk. Stakeholders charged with these tasks need better tools and practices.

One a new domain is registered it falls on IT (network operations and InfoSec) to manage the domain through its end-to-end lifecycle. IT bears the brunt of high cost, manually intensive processes that are fraught with known security risks to the enterprise.

Corporate domain management pain starts with the people that request and approve domains. Process flaws in this critical, initiate step launch an ongoing lifecycle of high cost, effort ,and IT security risks that can be avoided.