OpenDNS presenter pack

OpenDNS presentation

1. Introducing OpenDNS
Make your Internet safer, faster, smarter and more reliable

2. Meet OpenDNS
• OpenDNS is a fast-growing, profitable company founded in 2005 by DNS
expert David Ulevitch.
• 30 million+ people actively use the service today – more than 1% of the
world’s Internet traffic trusts OpenDNS.
• 100% uptime (no outages) – ever.
• OpenDNS provides helpful services for households, schools and
businesses.
• The OpenDNS service is chosen by more than 1 in 3 U.S. K-12 schools,
including some of the largest: Detroit Public Schools, Baltimore City
Public Schools and San Diego Public Schools.
• OpenDNS users also include some of the world’s most trusted
organizations:
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3. Getting Technical: What is DNS?
• DNS stands for Domain Name System.
• It’s “the phonebook for the Internet.”
• People understand URLs. Computers understand IP addresses.
• DNS translates Web site address (www.nytimes.com) into IP addresses
(199.239.136.200).
• OpenDNS is the pioneer and innovator in DNS.
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4. Getting Technical: The World’s Largest DNS Service

• 14 datacenters (and growing!) around the world.
• The company does a half million queries per second.
• On average OpenDNS answers 30 billion DNS queries a day.
… That’s a lot of DNS!
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5. Why OpenDNS?
Make your Internet instantly faster and more reliable.
• Frees you from annoying outages
• Speeds Web page load times

Choose to limit Internet access and block unsafe or inappropriate
websites.
• 57 categories of Web content filtering
• Block or allow sites by category or by individual domain

Protect your users from fraudulent and identity theft websites.
• Take the guesswork out of identifying unsafe websites
• The world’s most accurate, up-to-date phishing filter

OpenDNS protects every device, anywhere it travels.
• Protect every iPhone, iPad, Android device, gaming console, etc.
that connects to your network
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6. What is Phishing?
• Phishing is a fraudulent attempt to steal your personal information.
• OpenDNS is the world’s most trusted anti-phishing service, relied on by
leading technology and academic organizations, including:

• OpenDNS takes the guesswork out of identifying phishing scams.
• OpenDNS operates Phishtank.com, the
largest community-powered anti-phishing
effort on the Internet.
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7. What does a Phishing Email Look Like?
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8. What is Malware?
• Malware is short for malicious software.
• Once downloaded it can communicate private information like credit
card numbers and passwords to a host on the Internet.
• It can also make your computer act as a revenue generator by
performing tasks for the bad guys.
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9. How Does OpenDNS Protect You from Malware?
• OpenDNS malware protection is the single smartest way to secure your
network.
• OpenDNS doesn’t simply try to detect malware, it disables it.
• Malware is cut off at the knees and can’t communicate private
information back to the hosts.
• OpenDNS partners with leading security research groups to provide
the most effective malware blocking service available.
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10. What the Experts Are Saying
2011 Technology Pioneer
“To be selected as a Technology Pioneer, a company must have the
potential for long-term impact on business and society... and its
technology must be proven.”

Best Content Filtering Tool
“OpenDNS won by a landslide for its ease of use and the security that
comes from having it completely out of reach of the end user.”

50 Best Tech Startups
“Millions of customers, ranging from Detroit Public Schools to soccer
moms, use the free service OpenDNS to filter out certain Web sites,
block phishing attacks, and load Web pages faster.”

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“Switch your company router's DNS resolver to use
OpenDNS. Do it right now, I'll wait.”

11. Q & A