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Questioning the wisdom of using DNS SRV records for TAXII 2.0 Discovery

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Trey Darley
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2015-10-30T08:42:00+00:00
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Questioning the wisdom of using DNS SRV records for TAXII 2.0 Discovery
Hi, y'all -  While from an architectural perspective using DNS SRV records to support discovery in TAXII 2.0 is an elegant and obvious approach (cf. [0]), when viewed from the perspective of operational security things appear rather problematic. At the same time you're making it easy for the blue team to discover your TAXII gateway, you're simultaneously advertising it to the whole internet, including potential attackers.
Using DNS SRV records *internally* within an organization makes sense but for public-facing discovery we should come up with an alternative that's less advantageous to the blackhats.  [0]:  https://taxiiproject.github.io/taxii2/rest-api/#dns-srv

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