Blog Security Dangling Danger: Why You Need to Focus on Your DNS Posture Management Tony Lauro is Senior Director of Technology and Security Strategy at Akamai. Tony has worked with Akamai's top global clients to provide cybersecurity guidance, architectural analysis, web application, and network security expertise. With more than 25 years of information security operations experience, Tony has worked and consulted in many verticals, including finance, automotive, medical/healthcare, enterprise, and mobile applications. Given the potential risk, paying more attention to your DNS security posture should be a priority. Imagine this scenario: You deprovision a web resource that was created for a product or promotion that no longer exists. You believe that you’ve removed all traces from public access … but have you?  \r\n The Domain Name System (DNS) record — the CNAME — may still be out there. If so, an attacker may find this “dangling” CNAME in public DNS records and hijack the subdomain.…