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Blind spots
DNS is spread across teams, providers, and years of history. Nobody holds a complete, current picture of what the organization publishes to the Internet.
Accountability for public DNS
Make DNS accountable.
DNS Watcher gives security, operations, and audit teams one accountable view of your public DNS: what exists, who owns it, whether each change was approved, what is exposed, and proof of what changed and when.
- Read-only never changes your DNS
- Owned every record tied to a team
- Provable evidence that stands up to audit
finding
illustrative
shop-legacy.example.com.
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CNAME
example-shop.azurewebsites.net.
- Approved? No change request on file Unapproved
- History Added 14 Mar, outside change control Recorded
- Owner Storefront Platform Assigned
- Exposure Points at a cloud resource that no longer exists Takeover risk
Finding
Subdomain takeover exposure introduced by an unapproved change.
Routed to Storefront PlatformNext Remove record or reclaim target
The problem
A DNS record can be technically valid and still be unknown, ownerless, unauthorized, or risky.
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Slow response
Security finds a dangling record or a broken signature, then spends days working out who owns it, when it changed, and whether anyone meant it to.
03
Weak change proof
Tickets describe intent. DNS shows reality. The two rarely line up, and an audit is usually the moment someone finds out.
Teams debate whose data is right while the public record keeps changing.
What you get
The questions every DNS incident asks, answered before it starts.
Every team holds part of the answer. DNS Watcher holds all of it, for every record, all the time.
- 01What exists?
A complete, continuously current inventory of your public DNS, with its full history.
- 02Who owns it?
Every record tied to a system and an accountable contact, so findings reach the right team.
- 03Was it approved?
Changes made outside change control surface on their own, along with approvals that never happened.
- 04What is exposed?
Takeover, signing, email, and delegation risk, prioritized and routed to an owner.
- 05Can we prove it?
Tamper-evident history and exportable evidence for incident reviews and auditors.
It watches. It never changes your DNS.
DNS Watcher is an independent monitoring and evidence layer. Production DNS stays with the teams and platforms that run it today, so the control stays independent of the change process it is checking.
What it covers
Every way a public record goes wrong.
Each finding arrives with the record, its history, its owner, and the evidence behind it.
Exposure
Takeover and forgotten assets
- Subdomain takeover risk
- Records pointing at resources you no longer control
- Forgotten and shadow services
- Certificates issued for your names that nobody expected
Trust
Signing, delegation, and registration
- DNSSEC health, with warning before signatures lapse
- Delegation and nameserver misconfiguration
- Domain registration and expiry risk
- Signs the Internet is being answered differently than you configured
Messaging
Email authentication
- SPF, DKIM, and DMARC posture
- Spoofing and impersonation exposure
- Email transport security policy gaps
- Stale email signing keys
Governance
Change control and evidence
- Changes made outside change control
- Approved changes that were never made, or made differently
- Any zone as it existed at any point in time
- Audit-ready evidence on demand
Who it is for
One shared answer for all teams.
DNS sits between security, operations, cloud, and audit. Each owns part of the question and none owns all of it.
CISO and security
Reduce public DNS blind spots
Prioritized findings with an accountable owner, instead of a list nobody can route.
DNS and NetOps
Explain change faster
Inventory, history, and change evidence ready before the incident bridge asks for them.
Cloud platform
See provider sprawl
Every DNS provider in one view, with ownership attached to what each one hosts.
GRC and audit
Prepare defensible evidence
Point-in-time history and exportable evidence that holds up to scrutiny.
Best fit Organizations with public DNS spread across teams, and a real need to prove what happened.
Why not what you already have
Keep your tools. Connect the answers.
Existing tools remain useful. DNS Watcher adds the accountable record they leave between them.
Approach
Answers well
Still leaves open
DNS provider console
What is configured in that one provider
The full estate, ownership, change approval, evidence
Point scanner
One class of exposure at one moment
History, change approval, accountable ownership
Tickets, CMDB, spreadsheets
Declared intent and manual ownership
What DNS actually contains and exposes, continuously
DNS Watcher
One accountable view across all of the above
Making production changes, which stays with your DNS team
Straight answers
Clear boundaries, stated up front.
A monitoring control is only as trustworthy as the claims made about it.
- Will it change production DNS?
- No. DNS Watcher observes and records. Your DNS teams and platforms keep sole control of every change.
- Does it replace our DNS provider?
- No. It works alongside the providers and platforms you already run, including mixed estates.
- Is our data kept separate from other customers?
- Yes. Each customer's data is isolated, and access within your organization is role-based.
- Does it make us compliant?
- No tool can. It supports evidence preparation for audits and directives such as CISA ED 19-01. It is not a certification or a compliance guarantee.
- Will it fit our environment?
- That is the first thing we establish. Our team walks through your DNS estate and requirements before anything else.
- How do we get started?
- Contact us. We will set up a conversation and a live demonstration focused on your use cases.
Contact us
See it against your own DNS questions.
Tell us about your environment and what prompted the conversation. A member of the DNS Watcher team will follow up directly.
- Step 1ConversationYour DNS estate and the teams involved
- Step 2DemonstrationA live walkthrough focused on your use cases
- Step 3ProposalPricing and deployment for your organization