The internet is a collision of legacy protocols and modern asymmetric threats. In this episode of The Defenders Log, I sit down with the man who built the foundation: Dr. Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of the Domain Name System (DNS).

We don't just reminisce about the 1980s; we dissect how the Universal Threat Ecosystem (UTE) has weaponized the very decentralization that made the internet possible. The failure today does not come from gross negligence, but the imperfect application of the current stack. The odds remain badly stacked against the defender. While generic tools focus on detection, which is fundamentally too late, this conversation pivots toward Zero Trust Connectivity (ZTC).

• The "Whack-a-Mole" Reality: Why chasing RaaS and IABs through traditional feeds is a losing game.
• Default Deny-All: Dr. Mockapetris explains his "day job"—making sure DNS doesn't work when you don't want it to.
• The DoH/DoT Trap: How hyperscalers are centralizing authority and eroding Sovereign Capabilities.
• Agentic AI: Preparing for a world with trillions of automated agents jabbering across your infrastructure.

If you want to survive the next evolution of cyber warfare, you must shut down egress to the attacker. It is time to move beyond simple resolution and toward a hardened state of prevention.

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