Cyber criminals are opportunistic and merciless, targeting security vulnerabilities such as weak passwords or unnecessary administrator rights. The National Cyber Security Centre recently found that 23.2 million victim accounts worldwide used 123456 as the password, and many companies still provide full admin rights...
Many healthcare organizations that are up for renewals of cyber insurance policies are seeing big increases in premiums and a long list of new security requirements from their carriers, says Mac McMillan, who recently returned as CEO of the consultancy CynergisTek.
With more than 61% of breaches attributed to stolen passwords, a password manager can go a long way in helping enterprises enhance security, say Chandan Pani, CISO at Mindtree, and Lloyd Evans, identity lead, JAPAC, at LogMeIn.
Before the COVID pandemic forced most employees to work remotely, workforce identity security was already a big deal. Many industry analysts have long acknowledged that “identity is the new perimeter” alluding to the fact that business digitization, the transition of apps and infrastructure to the cloud, and the...
A compromised identity and its associated shared accounts are the single most
effective attack vector for a threat actor to compromise an entire multicloud
environment.
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Restricting the privileges any user, application,...
To enhance privileged access management for operational technology, organizations should use specialized remote access solutions for vendors that are allowed to access OT networks, says Felix Gaehtgens, an analyst at Gartner.
A panel of industry experts bring together the do’s and dont’s of a Privileged Access Management (PAM) journey. Based on real hands-on experience of PAM implementations and operations from a services perspective, features and functionality from a product perspective and business and compliance requirements from a...
Thycotic and Centrify recently merged to create a powerful new player in the privileged access management space. Art Gilliland, CEO of the new ThycoticCentrify, discusses this combined entity and the role it can play for enterprises small and large in ensuring cloud identity security.
From identity and access management to cloud migration and connected devices, retired RSA CEO Art Coviello looks beyond the pandemic and says, "It's going to be a Roaring '20s for technology." But he also foresees a potentially calamitous decade for security.
Today, many organizations rely on multiple cloud services with their end users regularly consuming dozens, or even hundreds, of different SaaS applications. This great cloud migration has successfully enabled the increase in remote working and is accelerating digital transformation initiatives. But, more clouds also...
Remote work isn’t a trend, but a new way for businesses to operate. There’s no longer a defined parameter to operate. Instead, IT teams are coping with multiple devices, networks, locations and ways of enabling employees to access professional applications. Cybercriminals are capitalising on this opportunity.
In...
Does your team have the appropriate secure tools in place to handle the most pressing issues related to a large volume of third-party vendors, internal privileged users and remote workers connecting remotely into your network?
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Manage vendor access
Avoid "All or...
The SolarWinds supply chain attack is another example of the damage that lateral movement by system intruders can cause - but detecting lateral movement is challenging because of the size of today’s systems and the difficulty of filtering bad behavior from benign behavior in remote work environments.
How do you...
80% of of organizations
discovered a privileged
access policy violation
within the last year.
In a recent Hitachi ID-sponsored poll from Enterprise
Management Associates, business leaders shared their
privileged access management (PAM) challenges, realities,
and goals — providing a clearer picture of what...
The Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report compiles every Microsoft security bulletin from the past 12 months, analyzes the trends, and includes viewpoints from security experts. This provides a consolidated view and analysis of Microsoft patch Tuesdays, providing a crucial barometer of the threat landscape for the...
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