European PDNS Readiness
Details european PDNS Readiness and evaluates key implications for security practitioners.
Summary
DNS4EU and Sovereignty
George Bhai outlines the EU-funded DNS4EU project to keep protective DNS processing inside Europe, addressing NIS2 concerns that commercial filtering often sends citizen DNS data abroad. William’s half of the talk covers threat feeds and intelligence processing.
Government Adoption Challenges
National CERT maturity varies widely: some agencies are independent with budgets, while others depend on parliament to fund projects. Deployments range from cloud resolver-only protection for schools to full national hierarchies with on-prem resolvers for ministries and hospitals.
Multi-Tenant Architecture
DNS for Gov proposes vertical tenants so ministries do not share blocklists or telemetry. Per-organization domain grading lets hospitals block adult content while police investigative units retain broader access, with auditing options for compliance.
Scale of the Problem
Europe has billions of connected devices and high DNS abuse rates. The speakers argue four in five devices face malicious campaigns, motivating centralized protective DNS as a public-sector readiness initiative.
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