International Business Machines Corporation

Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Manuel A Balderas

Margaret Mary O'Connell

Hanna Russo

Jennifer L Pinkus

Described herein are methods, systems, and apparatus in which the functionality of a DNS server is modified to take into account security intelligence when determining an answer to return in response to a requesting client. Such a DNS server may consider a variety of security characteristics about the client and/or the client's request, as described more fully herein. Such a DNS server can react to clients in a variety of ways based on the threat assessment, preferably in a way that proactively counters or mitigates the perceived threat.

Countering security threats with the domain name system

The present invention provides a virtual Reusable Asset Specification (RAS) repository. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: providing RAS assets for each different lifecycle phase of a software asset; and linking the RAS assets together using RAS related-assets.

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Arlington, MA, United States of America

Manuel A Balderas