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title: "Threat Defense"
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In your hybrid cloud environment, you can deploy DNS Forwarding Proxy as a service on a NIOS-X server, so you can take advantage of the security features that Infoblox Threat Defense offers. You can deploy DNS Forwarding Proxies as a service on NIOS-X virtual machines using the Docker or OVA package that Infoblox provides. You can also deploy a DNS Forwarding Proxy using HTTP Proxy to forward DNS queries to Infoblox Platform. <span style="color: #000000">For more information, see </span>*[Deploying NIOS-X Servers](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BloxOneInfrastructure/pages/204800163)*.

<span style="color: #111111">Infoblox provides the Docker container and OVA deployment packages, so you can deploy NIOS-X servers in a virtual infrastructure of your choice. NIOS-X virtual hosts are automatically created when you use a join token to connect them to the Infoblox Portal. For more information, see </span><span style="color: #111111">*[Configuring Join Tokens](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BloxOneInfrastructure/pages/87229997)*</span><span style="color: #111111">.</span>

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