Cisco Systems plans to pay $635 million in cash to buy OpenDNS, a company that leverages the Domain Name System (DNS) to provide security services including Web filtering, threat intelligence and malware and phishing protection.

The DNS is a core Internet protocol. It’s used to translate Web addresses that are easy for people to remember, like website names, into numerical IP (Internet Protocol) addresses that computers need to communicate with each other.

OpenDNS customers configure their computers or networks to use the company’s DNS resolution servers instead of the ones provided by their ISPs and this allows OpenDNS to provide additional services.

By using its privileged network position, OpenDNS can block users from accessing websites that are known to distribute malware or host phishing pages, can prevent malware that already exists on computers from calling back home to attackers and can prevent access to Internet resources or protocols that companies don’t want their employees to use.

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