The core benefits of Velocity WiFi DNS Filtering

When you boil it down, DNSFilter provides three key values:
◆ Security
◆ Visibility
◆ Productivity
Let’s break that down.

SECURITY

Security isn’t something you “implement” and then forget about. It’s constantly evolving and as external risk
factors increase and end-users are more likely to become the victim of cyber attacks, layered security is
increasingly important.

You need your firewall. You need your antivirus. You also need DNS filtering. Because all of them do different
things and protect you in different phases of your workday.

Unfortunately for all of us, hackers are really good at deceiving people. And there are a lot of them working to steal
information, usually for some sort of financial gain.

Per Symantec, one in 13 web requests now leads to malware. While we’re on the subject, malware makes up 28%
of all cybersecurity threats while phishing accounts for over 30%. That means that nearly 60% of cybersecurity
threats are deployed at the DNS level.

Even with cybersecurity awareness training, if the hackers are motivated enough they can convince that person
to click the link. They can find information from public social media pages, press releases, or even business pages
and leverage that to convince end users that they are trustworthy.

And this happens quickly. When a phishing attempt is successful, over 50% of the link clicks occur in the first
five minutes. So there isn’t much time for mitigation to happen if you don’t have filtering set up. This is why
solutions that block threats instantly, even when they’ve never been seen before, are necessary so that the DNS
request for that malicious site doesn’t get resolved and put the end-user and the entire company at a
tremendous risk.

VISIBILITY

It’s not enough to just block threats. If you have no insight into what you’re blocking, you’ll never be able to
improve both security and content filtering as a whole.

Visibility gives you a clearer picture of:
◆ What sites users are accessing
◆ The average number of threats being mitigated
◆ How frequently pages are being blocked

You can then use these insights to make recommendations around both security (see above) and productivity
(see below).

PRODUCTIVITY

Technology is amazing. It gives us the ability to accomplish more in a given day than we could have dreamed up
150 years ago. With high digitization in professional services and B2B sectors, our productivity has increased in
nearly every industry.

But technology also introduces a new set of obstacles that stand in the way of our daily efficiencies. Social media,
news websites, gaming platforms like Steam, online forums, messaging clients, even our email can be a source
of decreased productivity. And those are just the things we can access using a web browser. Which is exactly the
point.

Access to the internet and digital applications has given us the ability to do more. But ironically it’s also an
obstacle to better productivity. Research done in 2018 shows that 89% of employees surveyed waste time every
day.

Think of the daily distractions you encounter that aren’t even on your computer—especially if you work from
home. There is enough happening externally that you need to tune out. Adding content filtering is an additional
safeguard against time-wasting. It’s a reminder that you shouldn’t be going to sites like that during working
hours.

Call us to find out how we can help your business to become more secure.