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title: "Introduction"
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The Infoblox DNS Infrastructure Protection employs threat protection rules to detect, report upon, and stop DoS (Denial of Service), DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) and other network attacks targeting DNS authoritative and recursive applications. Infoblox Infrastructure Protection helps minimize “false positives” and ensures that your mission-critical DNS services continue to function even when under attack.

You can deploy the DNS Infrastructure Protection solution on software-based appliances (both physical and virtual) in the Grid. Depending on the appliances you deploy, you must install applicable hardware-based licenses, software subscription licenses or IB-FLEX capacity-based licensing.

This document is specifically for Software Based DNS Infrastructure Protection, though some recent NIOS features like profiles, and ruleset extensions also apply to hardware accelerated solutions.

In NIOS versions earlier than 9.0.8, Infoblox DNS Infrastructure Protection was referred to as Advanced DNS Protection (ADP) or Advanced Threat Protection.