Find out why everyone should use OpenDNS at home.

1. OpenDNS Your Family
Why Everyone Should Be Using OpenDNS at Home
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2. Home Use Benefits
Security Defense
Parental Controls
Performance Boost
Reporting
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3. Security Defense
Protect your family from bad sites that contain malware that
could infect your systems
Prevent phishing email scams from being successful by
blocking access to bad sites linked to in phishing emails
PhishTank fraud protection from emails and sites that try to
get your personal and credit card info
Proxy anonymizer blocking
Botnet protection
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4. Parental Controls
Protect your children from inappropriate content
You choose which sites and content to block
Web filtering is configurable by categories or at the site level
Whitelisting and blacklisting
Use customized block pages that tell your kids why a site is
blocked
Your guests are protected when using your family WiFi
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5. Performance Boost
Faster domain name resolution than your local ISP can handle
OpenDNS is cloud-based vs. software-based methods for
boosting web browsing performance
No software needs to be installed on any endpoints
A quick update to your wireless router will help protect all
your family’s computers, mobile phones, tablets,
entertainment devices and gaming systems
100% uptime for the past four years
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6. Reporting
Web-based reporting dashboard can be accessed from
anywhere in the world
Activity at home can be monitored while you are at work
View browsing history from all devices on your network
Review attempts to access blocked content
Identify infected machines phoning home
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7. OpenDNS Facts
Largest DNS host in the world
12 data centers worldwide
Over 20 million users
27 billion queries/day
500,000 requests/second during peak time
Over 40,000 schools use OpenDNS
33% of American public schools use OpenDNS
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8. About Glen Roberts
Glen Roberts is an IT management
professional working on his Master
of Science in Information Security
Management degree at the SANS
Technology Institute.
You can reach Glen by email at
glenroberts@me.com or by phone at
(512) 966-3425.
Glen’s personal website is
www.glenroberts.com.
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