
“It’s something which we’ve been asked for a lot.” OpenText plans to make DNS protection available as a standalone offering on March 28, allowing customers to standardize their DNS protection “without installing two solutions, which they’ve never really liked to do,” he said. While tying together DNS and endpoint protection made sense initially for the Webroot product line - which OpenText acquired through its acquisition of Webroot parent Carbonite in 2019 - doing so has prevented customers that run other vendors’ endpoint security tools from using the OpenText DNS protection technology, Barnett said. Later this month, OpenText plans to make DNS (domain name system) protection available separately from its Webroot endpoint security platform, enabling the DNS protection offering to become relevant to a broader set of customers, said Jonathan Barnett, a senior product manager in network solutions at OpenText.

OpenText is looking to spark major growth with channel partners for its intelligence-driven DNS protection offering through a forthcoming product announcement, OpenText executives told CRN.
