FlashStart to speak at NAMEX 2025: DNS Security and Digital Infrastructure in Focus

On June 11, 2025, FlashStart will take part in the NAMEX Annual Meeting, one of Italy’s most important events focused on internet interconnection, network security, and the evolution of digital infrastructure.

Organized by NAMEX (Nautilus Mediterranean Exchange), the annual meeting brings together in Rome a wide range of stakeholders including network operators, ISPs, tech companies, system integrators, and public institutions. It serves as a strategic forum for analyzing the current state of Italian and European internet infrastructure and discussing emerging technologies.

Within this setting, FlashStart will offer a highly technical contribution centered on a key topic in today’s cybersecurity landscape: DNS protection as a first line of defense against digital threats.

1. A Technical Talk at the Core of the Internet

Our CEO, Francesco Collini, will deliver a talk emphasizing the strategic importance of DNS—not merely as a functional component of network infrastructure, but as a vital control point for ensuring performance, security, and business continuity.

The presentation will explore:

• Common vulnerabilities in unsecured DNS traffic;

• The architecture and benefits of cloud-based DNS filtering;

• The value for ISPs, enterprises, and public institutions of adopting a centralized and scalable DNS protection layer;

• Future scenarios involving edge computing, AI, and preventive threat mitigation.

Using real-world use cases and global traffic data, Francesco will demonstrate how DNS can be leveraged to proactively block malware, phishing attempts, parental control violations, and access to harmful or unwanted content.

2. About FlashStart, the internet protection

FlashStart is an Italian tech company that develops and distributes cloud-based DNS security solutions, trusted by more than 20,000 customers in over 160 countries. Thanks to a globally distributed Anycast data center network and an AI-driven threat detection engine, FlashStart filters billions of DNS requests daily, blocking threats in real time.

Our clients range from small businesses to ISPs, multinational corporations, schools, and government agencies. The goal remains consistent: to deliver fast, reliable, and customizable DNS protection, fully manageable remotely.

FlashStart solutions are compatible with all network environments—cloud, hybrid, or on-premise—and integrate seamlessly with routers, firewalls, CPEs, and endpoint systems.

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3. The characteristics of a DNS Filtering

Not all DNS Filters are the same. Some present distinctive characteristics that should make them favourite, let’s see which:

» Frequent updating of blacklists, the lists that contain the sites that should be avoided at all costs
» Low latency guarantee (the time that passes between request and visualisation of a site)
» Customizable possibility of the filter to follow your own needs of site blocking
» Ample categorization of dangerous sites and Geoblocking, a block that is based around the geographical location of where a site is situated and excludes from the blacklist Countries that are considered dangerous
» Use of Artificial Intelligence for major quality within blacklists, thus avoiding blocking ‘clean’ sites.
» Easy configuration and customizable (possibly delegating a certified partner of the DNS Filtering producers)

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The DNS Filtering from FlashStart has everything needed from a high quality service. It supports a whopping 85 different content categories and declares a minimum latency that is very low indeed. It also uses Artificial Intelligence algorithms to help it speed up its DNS, Domain and Content Data collection, ‘learning’ from the site analysis and foreseeing what others are potentially at risk of being blocked.

World partners that propose the DNS Filtering from FlashStart are all agreed that being easily set up and customizable are amongst its principal characteristics. The DNS Filtering from FlashStart, also, natively integrates with Active Directory from Microsoft for an immediate installation on company networks. Also, it guarantees a worldwide LAN protection and end point roaming through the Anycast network.

Finally, the FlashStart filter guarantees the protection from attacks to your company network with a highly competitive price that is also inferior of that charged for other security solutions for Small and Medium Companies that, truthfully speaking, don’t even need them. This is because, if you protect the workers surfing activities you are already at a very good point.

4. Case Studies, Partnerships, and Collaborations

During the NAMEX speech, we will highlight several international case studies, including:

• The deployment of FlashStart by a major European ISP to protect over 500,000 residential users;

• The nationwide rollout of our solution by a Ministry of Education in Central Europe for secure web access in schools;

• A multi-tenant MSP setup with centralized policy management for over 2,000 end customers.

FlashStart actively collaborates with technology and commercial partners around the world, including hardware manufacturers, system integrators, telecom providers, and cloud services. Key partnerships include MikroTik, Fortinet, Zyxel, along with research collaborations in the field of threat intelligence with academic institutions and cybersecurity labs.

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