Zain Jordan partners with Infoblox
to provide secure Internet
experience for subscribers
ain, a leading telecom company in Jordan, has
implemented the market leading Infoblox ActiveTrust
solution to enable secure Internet browsing for its
subscribers. Now both home and business users of Zain’s
Internet services are assured protection against malware and
the risk of data exfiltration without having to pay any additional
security subscription fees.
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Since its establishment in 1995, Zain Jordan quickly became
the foremost telecom company in Jordan, a position that it has
kept to this day through a policy of investing in cutting edge
technology to provide state of the art services to customers.
Yousef Abu Mitawe, Chief Operating Officer at Zain Jordan,
said: “The foundation of our work at Zain is to provide the best
and most distinctive services to our customers, as the Internet
has become a multi-service and serves all fields.”
Most Internet communications, including malware, rely on DNS
(Domain Name System). Attackers use DNS to exfiltrate data
and as a malware control point. More than 90% of malware
relies on DNS to redirect traffic to malicious sites. Existing
security controls, such as firewalls and email and web proxies,
rarely focus on DNS and associated vulnerabilities.
DNS is as critical a protocol as web and email. It requires a
dedicated solution that enables early detection and the sharing
of valuable network context with the broader ecosystem to
accelerate response.
Infoblox ActiveTrust is that dedicated solution which provides
Zain Jordan and its Internet subscribers with proactive
network protection against data exfiltration and fast-evolving,
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elusive malware threats that exploit DNS to communicate with
command and control servers and botnets.
Ever since its implementation, Infoblox ActiveTrust has blocked
DNS communications with:
• Source addresses of DDoS attacks
• APT (Advanced Persistent Threats), botnets,
compromised host/domains, exploit kits, malicious name
servers and sinkholes
• Malicious hostname threats that can take action on or
control of end-users’ systems, such as malware command
and control, malware download and active phishing sites
• Ransomware destination servers, which encrypts files on
end-users’ systems and require them to pay in order to get
them decrypted.
Wissam Saadeddine, Regional Sales Manager at Infoblox, said:
“We are proud to be a technology provider to Zain Jordan for
over nine years. Zain has always been one step ahead of the
market, with its constant zest for innovation and has introduced
several ‘firsts’ in the kingdom and is always an early adopter of
best of breed technology.
“Zain’s latest implementation of our ActiveTrust platform
is another initiative that demonstrates ‘customer-centricity’
and serves as a shining example of how regional telcos
should protect their customers from the ever-evolving
cyberthreat landscape.” u
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Now both home and business users
of Zain’s Internet services are
assured protection against malware
and the risk of data exfiltration
without having to pay any additional
security subscription fees.
Zain Jordan
headquarters