CIS and Akamai to Offer No-Cost Malicious Domain Blocking and Reporting Service for U.S. Hospitals
Authored By: John Hoffoss
The Center for Internet Security (CIS), together with Akamai, is offering a service called Malicious Domain Blocking and Reporting (MDBR), which prevents IT systems from connecting to harmful web domains, helping limit infections related to known malware, ransomware, phishing, and other cyber threats. This capability can block most ransomware infections just by preventing the initial outreach to a ransomware delivery domain. This service is like Cisco Umbrella or Quad9, offering differences in threat intelligence, logging of DNS lookups, and reporting portal access.
On Feb. 18, CIS announced they would offer MDBR services to U.S. Hospitals, expanding this offering beyond the previous recipients of U.S. State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial government organizations through the Multi-state Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) and Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EI-ISAC).
CIS and Akamai are offering this service at no cost to the following U.S. based healthcare organizations:
- Independent hospitals
- Multi-system hospitals
- Hospital-based integrated health systems, meaning an organization, consisting of one or more hospitals plus at least one or more groups of physicians, that provides a continuum of care and that are connected to each other through joint ownership or joint management
- Post-acute patient care facilities
- Psychiatric, rehabilitation, or other specialty hospitals
For further information, please see the main page for U.S. Hospitals, read the MDBR Service Overview, and read the MDBR FAQ.
CIS is a community-driven nonprofit, responsible for the CIS Controls® and CIS Benchmarks™, globally recognized best practices for securing IT systems and data, and the home of the MS-ISAC and EI-ISAC.
Akamai is an internet security company whose intelligent edge platform surrounds everything, from the enterprise to the cloud, and Akamai is the CIS-selected DNS vendor for the MDBR service.
Javier is a principal within the Cybersecurity Services Group at CLA. Prior to joining CLA, Javier spent ten years supporting the Department of Defense as well as a financial services company in the fields of insider threat, incident response, analytics, and systems engineering.
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