SMART WHITELISTING FOR DNS SECURITY

Techniques for smart whitelisting for Domain Name System (DNS) security are provided. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for smart whitelisting for DNS security in accordance with some embodiments includes receiving a set of network related event data, wherein the set of network related event data includes Domain Name System (DNS) related event data; receiving a set of network related threat data, wherein the set of network related threat data includes DNS related threat data; and generating a whitelist using the set of network related event data and the set of network related threat data, wherein the whitelist includes a subset of network domains included in the DNS related event data based on a data driven model of the DNS related event data and the DNS related threat data.