Turning Domain Data into Domain Intelligence

Published Apr 14, 2018 — 1 min read

“Turning Domain Data into Domain Intelligence” Authors: Partridge, Chris. Presented: April 14, 2018 to Security B-Sides Rochester 2018 Hacker Conference.

As a student, I gave a talk at Security B-Sides Rochester 2018 on scraping DNS records at scale, mapping relationships between them, and other fun things.

The talk covered some of the interesting challenges of getting DNS data at scale, some fun statistics, unexpected misconfigurations, and early results (positive, but not amazing). If you’d like to watch me sweat in front of peers for the first time, the recording is on YouTube.

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