Patrick Domingues

So the question your asking Is OpenDNS Umbrella HIPAA Compliant? Surely OpenDNS Umbrella and its software client is questionable, right? Is this a breach of HIPAA Compliance? 

Lets Review The Basics…

Lets go back to the basics, OpenDNS is a company and service that extends the Domain Name System by adding features such as Logging, phishing protection, malware protection and content filtering in addition to DNS lookup, if its DNS servers are used. So knowing this it already seems to be better than Comcast DNS of 75.75.75.75 or Googles DNS of 8.8.8.8. Open DNS Umbrella actually provides something of value. 

Let’s look at exactly how a DNS request works.

1. A DNS request starts when you try to access a computer on the internet. For example, you type PatrickDomingues.com in your browser address bar.
2. The first stop for the DNS request is the local DNS cache. As you access different computers,