MarkMonitor, a provider of Internet brand protection and corporate domain registration, yesterday announced the launch of a suite of services to monitor and protect companies against Pharming, and other domain name attacks.

Pharming is an online attack against a DNS system that is designed to enable a perpetrator to steal consumer credential and identity data by causing the DNS system to route the consumer to a fake web site rather than a real web site. MarkMonitor's approach to protecting against Pharming consists of SPF-enabled enterprise DNS and global domain name monitoring, providing a solution that monitors Name Servers for changes to live domain names on the Internet, including detecting split DNS tactics devised to avoid standard monitoring solutions. It also offers an user interface and tools to manage enterprise dns securely.

"MarkMonitor's suite of DNS monitoring and security solutions provide the only comprehensive approach to preventing and detecting DNS based attacks, such as Pharming. In addition, Enterprise DNS goes well beyond prevention, and enables companies to quickly and accurately deploy DNS enabled authentication services, such as SPF, which assures ISPs that your outbound traffic is legitimate," said Ted Sergott, MarkMonitor SVP Engineering.