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DNSharmony®

The power of unity.
DNS intelligence aggregation facilitated by the adam:ONE® ecosystem.

How do you access the world’s best threat intelligence? Simple: By combining the world’s top sources of your choice to collaborate in real time.

Home and Small Business

DNSharmony® Home and Professional Packages.

Ideal for Home and Small Business
We understand that not everyone wants the level of protection that a full adam:ONE® ZTc node provides. It is for that reason that we decided to make it easy and accessible for families and small business owners that would like to apply Security, Privacy, Productivity Enhancement and Content protection at a minimal cost.

Choose from the basic Home package aimed at simplicity and family use, or the Professional package that is geared towards SMB commercial applications.

DNSharmony® is available as a self installable package for pFsense and ASUS Merlin WRT. The option for buying a pre-installed router for Home or Business use will be offered soon.

What DNSharmony® can do for you and the people you care about.

Enhanced Security.
Threat intelligence aggregation. Combine the protection of multiple sources. Block all known malicious domains. No endpoint software installation required. Protect all IoT or any device while connected to your network, regardless of operating system or device type.

Protection against harmful content.
Enforce Safe Search and Google / YouTube Safe Modes Block any unwanted domain.

Enhanced Privacy.
Block trackers and ads.

Productivity Enhancement.
Provide focus in work or school environments by blocking all distractions, social media or entertainment. Set Schedules to limit access to distractions.

Enterprise

DNSharmony® is an ADAMnetworks® Technology element that functions inside adam:ONE®. It allows for using multiple protective DNS resolvers via aggregation. Feedback on which policy or upstream resolver triggered a block is noted in your running log and you can assign custom policies to individual devices or groups of devices.

As part of adam:ONE® ZTc deployment, DNSharmony® is used as a DNS intelligence aggregation layer for adam:ONE® offering powerful customization. For those not yet ready for the security value of a Zero Trust connected environment, DNSharmony® could be used as the primary filtering technology to protect against known threats and harmful content.

Community Edition

The Best Things in Life are Free!

Best of all, there is a free version of DNSharmony® that is aimed at researchers and tech nerds that want to apply it for non-commercial personal use. This way you get to try us out to see if you like us and our products.

The Power of Unity

DNSharmony® allows you to have the following key wins for your network:

Resilience: Redundant DNS resolution facilitates resilience in the case that an upstream resolver is down.

DNS Intelligence aggregation: Combine multiple intelligence sources to greatly increase the effective value of your DNS filtering decisions, no matter what your aim with filtering is.

Device Agnostic Protection: Because adam:ONE® functions out of band, protection can be applied to any device connected to your network. No endpoint agent required. IoT and Smart Device friendly.

Visibility: adam:ONE® facilitates an internal real time log of all traffic filtering decisions.

Productivity: Increase productivity and reduce your attack surface by applying schedules.

Privacy: Block Trackers and third party ads per policy.

Security: Block all known malware and security threats that use DNS as part of the attack vector. By combining multiple intelligence sources, you greatly increase effectiveness.

Content Protection: Block all known harmful content destinations and enforce Safe settings on Compatible Search engines (Brave, Google, Bing & Duck Duck Go) + YouTube.

Per device / per group policy assignment: Assign policies per device and have full visibility to all devices connected to your network.

DynDNS: Facilitate Dynamic DNS through the adam:ONE® muscle.

Enterprise Application: (Requires an LTP License)

SIEM integration: As an enterprise, you can integrate into SIEM to provide a running log of all traffic filtering decisions and enrich the inputs with all DNS requests from your network. Enjoy powerful DNS intelligence analysis with multiple vendors.

AD integration: Assign policies by AD integration.

Flexible Layers: adam:ONE® can operate at layer 3 or layer 2. In deployments where every endpoint is layer2-visible to adam:ONE, additional value is created by real-time device inventory and automated policy assignment on a per-network basis.

Policy Enforcement:

By default, all of our deployments of adam:ONE® will intercept outbound TCP and UDP traffic destined for port 53. This has the result of enforcing all standard DNS traffic by your established policies. For example, a device could be manually set to 8.8.8.8 and still experience the exact same forced filtering as every other device that is set to obtain DNS servers automatically.

The result of default gateway-based forced DNS is security and convenience without easy circumvention of your policies by an endpoint. The below example shows Google SafeSearch being forced no matter whom you ask.

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No matter which DNS resolver is asked to resolve Google, only the forced SafeSearch answer is ever provided. Unsafe Google search is simply not available.

Choose your instruments

Protective DNS	DNS Server IPv4	DNS Server IPv6	Blocked Destinations	Blocked Answers
Quad9	9.9.9.9 149.112.112.112	2620:fe::fe 2620:fe::9	Malware as identified by aggregate vendors	NXDOMAIN
Cisco Umbrella	208.67.220.220, 208.67.222.222	2620:119:35::35 2620:119:53::53	Selectable Categories to Block	OpenDNS block IP range
CleanBrowsing	185.228.168.168 185.228.169.168	2a0d:2a00:0001:: 2a0d:2a00:0002::	Safe for kids under 13, including Safety YouTube	NXDOMAIN
Cloudflare (No Malware)	1.1.1.2 1.0.0.2	2606:4700:4700::1112 2606:4700:4700::1002	Malware known to Cloudflare	0.0.0.0
Cloudflare (No Malware or Adult Content)	1.1.1.3 1.0.0.3	2606:4700:4700::1113 2606:4700:4700::1003	Malware and Harmful Content known to Cloudflare	0.0.0.0
Control D - Malware	76.76.2.1 76.76.10.1	2606:1a40::1 2606:1a40:1::1	Malware by threat intelligence feeds	0.0.0.0
Control D - Family Friendly	76.76.2.4 76.76.10.4	2606:1a40::4 2606:1a40:1::4	Malware, Ads, Tracking, Adult Content, Drugs	0.0.0.0
Comodo Secure DNS	8.26.56.26 8.20.247.20	-	Parked and malware domains	52.15.96.207
DNS Filter*	103.247.36.36 103.247.37.37 (and more for alternate profiles)	-	Adult Content	45.253.131.236
Webroot*	45.54.50.50 45.54.50.51	-	Selectable categories to block	35.199.56.164

* requires an account & subscription/license

Distributed Sinkholing

Public Resolvers require dramatically more resource usage if they also offer block pages. Those additional resources pose additional resource exhaustion liabilities on sinkholing web servers. For this reason, DNS providers tend to respond with NXDOMAIN (or 0.0.0.0 or 127.0.0.1 ) thereby reducing their own attack surface. However, the downside to this is that end users are provided no feedback, ie no block page(s). This is where the approach of distributed sinkholing applies. Block pages are served to internal networks, by the device running DNSharmony® through adam:ONE®.

The DNS and Traffic logs facilitated by adam:ONE® allows you to view resolution decisions in real time visible to your internal network only.

Distributed sinkholing also has the advantage of being local traffic only, thereby faster and consuming no WAN bandwidth at all. Blocked destinations are also not observable to the ISP.

Use Case Examples

Example #1:

A SFW experience through CleanBrowsing plus Quad9 threat intelligence protection as well as ad blocking from your own Pi-Hole.

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When we're asking ControlD, CleanBrowsing, Umbrella (from the perspective of the DNSharmony® device) Only ControlD's ad-blocking service was blocking ad.doubleclick.net. so DNSharmony's decision is to block it, even though others allowed it.

Example #2:

Choose multiple public DNS filters and choose one to be dominant. The dominant wins in the event of different non-blocked answers.

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In this case, they were all permitted, but the reason DNSharmony® chose CleanBrowsing is that it's the preferred result when all are allowed. This is because the desire in this policy is to use YouTube Safety mode, offered by CleanBrowsing.

Example #3:

Complimentary threat intelligence, but most importantly, offer end-users a complementary set of intel providers who otherwise don't work together: OpenDNS, Quad9 and even your own RPZs.

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Privacy and Security First

See our terms of use for details on how your DNS information is anonymized. DNSharmony® is also DNSSEC-aware, meaning your DNSSEC queries are honored and remain secured in transit. (adam:ONE® ZTc application of DNSharmony® includes full compatibility with DoH, DoQ and DoT. )

DNSharmony® Community	US $0/mo	Personal \| Non commercial use only
DNSharmony® Home	US $9.99/mo	Home use only
DNSharmony® Professional	US $99.99/mo	SMB use

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adam:ONE®

A security ecosystem designed from first-principles on a Zero Trust philosophy.

This True Proactive approach proves to be immune against advanced attacks (such as the Solar Winds breach and Pegasus etc.) by killing attacks BEFORE they were able to execute and BEFORE they were detected by the world’s best current SASE solutions.

Key Features:

ZTc Practically Implementable.

True Proactive System: Effective protection against unknown threats without the need for detection.

Attack surface reduction to near Zero. (>7000:1)

Kills C2 attack channels.

Eliminate Data Exfiltration vectors.

Mitigate the Human Factor. Phishing & Smishing vectors destroyed.

Shadow IT cleanup simplified. Default Deny All posture of ZTc.

IoT and Control Tech Friendly. No endpoint agent needed.

Circumvention protection.

Encryption Friendly. Privacy & Security maintained.

Distributed Custodial Protection. No centralized proxy.

Decentralized Performance. Centralized Control.

Get adam:ONE®

Yes. Zero Trust is possible on Layer2. And the consequence of this true-proactive technology is a breath of fresh air amidst the fog of legacy reactive systems that only gets you halfway there.

adam:ONE® is a ZeroTrust connectivity (ZTc) solution made practical by use of AI and stacking additional technologies such as DTTS® egress control and DNSharmony® threat intelligence aggregation.

At the core is a highly optimized DNS caching resolver. It operates in a hybrid Muscle-Brain configuration. While the Muscle is distributed on-premise or in your cloud edge networks, the Brain is centralized. This allows the performance and resilience of decentralized operation, while maintaining the benefit of centralized control. Additionally, custodial protection remains distributed to each node to eliminate the single-point-of-failure risks associated with cloud-only based solutions.

By operating out-of-band, protection is achieved without the need of any endpoint software installed on these assets. This allows for the protection of the myriad of IoT devices and all vulnerable control technologies used in critical infrastructure.

Full Layer2 visibility is achieved and facilitates automated device inventory. Default deny-all treatment for each asset is standard, making a true ZT posture an automatic benefit.

Individual policies with flexible rules can be applied per asset or group on a permanent or scheduled basis, as needed.

Seamless integration with 802.1X facilitates user based authentication and automated policy assignment. Additionally hardware based authentication for devices not compatible with human friendly authentication are used as default, extending your Zero Trust posture even to legacy devices in real-life environments.

Shadow IT is easily eliminated in the ZTc environment of adam:ONE®. Since all connections are denied by default, only assets and services approved by the security admin will continue to operate.

Multiple adam:ONE® elements are stacked in the adam:ONE® ecosystem to allow immense flexibility to the security admin.

Solving the design failures of legacy DNS based firewalls by implementing Don’t talk to strangers (DTTS)®, all leaks by direct IP connections are prevented. This allows for effective ZTc protection by DNS without the need to use any centralized proxies and without the need to break encryption. This is a huge win for security and privacy.

DTTS® also provides dynamic egress control that prevents circumvention, breaks C2 connections, and eliminates Data Exfiltration channels.

The default deny-all connection posture of ZTc is made practical by automated dynamic allow-listing powered by AI. ZTc Adaptive AI and ZTc Reflex AI provide two flavors to find the perfect balance between UX convenience vs. the hardness of your security posture. It is now practical to reduce your attack surface to Near Zero (7000:1) while maintaining a productive work environment for all your assets.

With ZTc policies of adam:ONE®, only connections requested by the verified user and verified to be safe are dynamically allowed - all others are denied by default. This practically resolves Human Factor risks by eliminating all phishing vectors. (Including spear phishing and smishing on mobile devices)

With DNSharmony®, security admins can choose to aggregate the Threat Intelligence Sources of their choice at the Muscle. The aggregated result provides both enhanced security, and resilience for mission critical operations in case of an outage with their primary DNS resolver.

Edge Application is flexible: The adam:ONE® Muscle can be baked natively into the OS of a device; be deployed at the network edge; live as a node in the cloud; forced onto mobile assets via secured tunnel; or applied at carrier level via dedicated APN. It could also be inserted mid-stream as a bridge device to augment current security frameworks without the need to displace existing infrastructure.

adam:ONE® elements

Build your adam:ONE® stack just the way you want it. The adam:ONE® caching resolver is a fully customizable technology platform. Multiple modules are combined to build your security stack just the way you want it.

DNSharmony®

The power of unity.
Threat intelligence aggregation facilitated by the adam:ONE® ecosystem.
Net result: The world’s best threat intelligence - by allowing the network admin the power of combining the world’s top threat intelligence sources on demand.

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Don’t Talk to Strangers (DTTS)®

Trap your attackers. Shut them down WITHOUT the need of detection.
(European, US and Canadian patents 2020).
Zero Trust Egress control that denies all outbound IP connections unless verified by an approved DNS lookup. This bullet proofs DNS based filtering to prevent circumvention by direct IP connections; advanced circumvention tools like Psiphon / TOR; or systemic failure of DNS based filtering by VPNs, DoH and DoT.

The net result is preventing all C2 malware that use direct outbound connections as part of the attack vector from executing. As well as providing immunity against data extortion by preventing exfiltration of data from the protected network.

ZTc Adaptive AI Dynamic Allowlisting

The Phish killer. Minimize your attack surface to near-zero.
ZeroTrust connectivity made practical through use of AI. The verified asset starts with a default Deny All policy and is presented with a block page to trigger the connection request. An adaptive allow list is dynamically built as the AI verifies the safety of the requested domains. All dependencies for websites are checked against an AI graph. Connection requests are either automatically allowed, denied, or sent for human inspection based on the graph score.

Allowed connections are automatically added to the dynamic allowlist and assets verified to the same node have access to connections from the same list. The same rule could be shared between other subscribed adam:ONE® nodes. This dynamic rule can be maintained by AI verification, or collapsed by temporal triggers once the need for access expired.

Primarily used for protecting HVAs with emphasis on mission critical security.

ZTc Reflex AI Dynamic Allowlisting

Zero Trust for the real world.
Realtime ZeroTrust connectivity decisions based on categorized AI-driven threat intelligence. The verified asset starts with a default Deny All policy that is dynamically shaped against pre-set domain category decisions as connection requests occur. All DNS requests are checked automatically against the Reflex Decision Engine - which is customizable on a per-device, per-policy basis.

This eliminates the delay associated with ZTc Adaptive AI between connection requests and verification, as decisions are done on a real time reflex basis of the Reflex Policy. Conflict resolutions between overlapping categorizations are also handled by preset preferences for the specific reflex policy.

Primarily used for protecting HVAs with emphasis on fast human experience.

adam:UBA™

Don’t trust. Verify.
User Based Authentication module through integration with 802.1x
All connected assets to adam:ONE® are visible through automatic inventory based on hardware identification by default. A default Zero Trust policy assignment automatically places the asset in a quarantine state until verified by the admin and assigned the proper policy.

UBA allows assets to be authenticated by user vs hardware, and allows for policy assignments to automatically apply to the verified user.

adam:GO™

Walk in the Light.
Zero Trust connectivity protection for HVA Mobile devices. adam:GO™ is a security stack applied to mobile devices by incorporating MDM, Apple ABM and adam:ONE® dedicated cloud exit enforced onto the device by encrypted tunnel.

The net result: Immunity to Pegasus Forced Entry* and other APTs are achieved via the ZeroTrust connectivity established through DTTS® and ZTc Adaptive AI Allowlisting of adam:ONE® in a dedicated cloud exit. *(This was achieved even before the threat became known).