DNSFilter Launches LUMINATE by DNSFilter™, the DNS-First, AI-Powered Security Platform

Five product suites built on the most upstream control point in cybersecurity. One agent, one console, one intelligence model

Nasdaq MarketSite, New York, October 27, 2026 — DNSFilter, the DNS-first security company, powered by AI, today announced the launch of LUMINATE by DNSFilter™, the DNS-first, AI-powered security platform. LUMINATE by DNSFilter™ unifies advanced filtering, behavior analytics, AI governance and controls, encryption and privacy, and threat intelligence at the most upstream control point in cybersecurity, stopping threats before they ever reach a user, device, or the network.

Modern attacks start in the gaps between siloed tools that don’t share signals where adversaries can weaponize domains in minutes, while detection arrives only after the payload lands. LUMINATE by DNSFilter™ answers this with a DNS-first approach: it decides at the DNS layer, the first and most upstream point in the chain, by blocking, allowing, or isolating traffic before it can execute. Controlling threats that far upstream erases entire classes of attack before they take hold. It is one platform that can deploy in minutes, grow at your pace, and requires no replatforming between suites.

“For over a decade, DNSFilter has proven the fastest way to stop an attack is to stop it before it starts,” said Ken Carnesi, CEO and Co-Founder of DNSFilter. “Every connection begins with a DNS request, so that’s where we end it: before the payload, before the breach, before it’s a threat at all. What we protect from that vantage point has grown with our customers: AI tools, autonomous agents, remote workers, encrypted traffic. LUMINATE by DNSFilter™ brings all of it under one platform, without ever giving up the upstream position that got us here.”

With LUMINATE by DNSFilter™, organizations can:

• Neutralize threats before they reach people. Malicious domains are stopped at the lookup, so the payload never executes and the attack never starts. The same policy reaches the devices an endpoint agent can’t — unmanaged devices, IoT, and OT. In regulated environments, it helps achieve content compliance and strips out the resource-heavy traffic eating bandwidth.
• See exactly what users are doing — and act on it. When an incident hits, the team reconstructs the full user-to-activity timeline in minutes instead of days, and the behavioral anomalies that signal a compromised account surface early. Shadow IT stops being a guess: every unsanctioned app is discovered and quantified, cutting both risk and the wasted SaaS spend hiding in unused licenses.
• Govern AI — and the AI agents working alongside your employees. Every AI tool in use across the organization comes into view, with access set by policy, while autonomous agents are governed as their own entities — treated like employees, with their own rules. The team can see agent and human behavior side by side and governs the agent-to-agent, agent-to-external, and MCP connections legacy tools never see.
• Protect remote users on any network. Traffic for off-network users is encrypted on untrusted networks, with zero-trust enforcement governed by DNS-First policy. Compromised or non-compliant devices are quarantined on demand. It all runs from a single agent, replacing VPN sprawl and a stack of privacy point-tools.
• Hunt threats before they’re weaponized. Drawing on one of the largest real-time DNS datasets in the market, patent-pending DGA tracking flags algorithmically generated domains before they’re weaponized, and the team triages suspicious indicators in real time during an active incident. After a breach or advisory, the team measures exposure across the environment and surfaces the compromised endpoints the rest of the stack missed.

“We built one engine instead of five,” said Kate Trojanowski, VP of Product and Engineering at DNSFilter. “One agent, one console, one intelligence model. Every decision starts at DNS, and every outcome retrains the model. Customers start with the suite they need and add the next one whenever they're ready.”

"Stopping threats before they reach a user has been central to how we protect our clients, and DNSFilter has been a key part of that strategy. As AI and remote work expand the attack surface, having a trusted partner extending protection from that same upstream position gives us real confidence in what we deliver," mentioned Rick Dupuis Senior Manager, Technical Solutions at Mainstay Technologies.

"Our partners tell us their customers are under real pressure to consolidate their security stacks without giving up protection, and DNSFilter has been a trusted partner in helping us meet that need. With LUMINATE by DNSFilter™ unifying multiple product suites under one agent and one console, our partners can bring their customers a simpler, more complete approach that starts at the DNS layer. We're excited to expand what we deliver together," said Jessica Lindof, Regional Vice President at Climb.

One DNS-first intelligence engine powers all five suites, scanning 3 million domains every second and blocking more than 235 million threats every day across a global dual anycast network — identifying zero-day domains before they can be weaponized and blocking emerging threats up to 10 days earlier than competing feeds.

LUMINATE by DNSFilter™ is available today. Learn more at dnsfilter.com/luminate.