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Over-Provisioning of Privilege tasks: Risks and Remedy
Overview Too many digital identities with elevated rights to access confidential information lead to strongest chances of credential misuse, data breach and subsequent catastrophes. About 75% of data breach incidents start with privileged account abuse across the world. Standing in the middle of growing IT infrastructure with increased adoption of cloud computing and AI/ ML […]
Learn, Rectify & Secure
Overview Just find out the vulnerable areas and people in the IT system, misuse them one by one and compromise the confidential information. That’s the modus operandi of cyber criminals to harm the entire IT community across the globe. The cyber experts, however, on most occasions are a step ahead, which is why many […]
Zero-Day Exploit vs. Zero-Day Vulnerability
A “zero-day attack” refers to an attack which exploits a bug or flaw in a particular software or firmware that the vendor does not know about. Usually found in the digital content piracy space, it may appear in the area of network security as well. A “zero-day exploit” and a “zero-day vulnerability” are, in essence, […]
New Work Environment demands Stronger IT Security
Overview If we look a couple of years back, the concept of Work From Home (WFH) was limited to freelancers and a few working professionals. Over the passage of time, the sudden pandemic brought massive changes in the enterprise work culture. Due to biological security, many organizations asked their employees to stay at home and […]
Business Startups: Are they prone to cyber threats?
Overview According to The Economic Times survey, more than 39,000 Indian startups sprung up in 2020-21 that have created almost 4,70,000 jobs. Indian nation currently claims to have the third largest startup ecosystem in the world. In fact, in 2020 alone, despite the pandemic situation, the government opened up the space for private players to […]
How does ARCON PAM ensure PCI-DSS compliance?
Overview 27 long years and still going strong with compliance standards! PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) is a global standard that brings together all the stakeholders of the payment industry to adopt a set of data security standards and resources for safe payments across the world. Against the backdrop of increasing digitalization and […]
Role of PAM in Securing Critical Infrastructure
Overview Ever come across the humour of technology competition—who’s big? The joke goes this way: a social media giant claims the credit of evolving the whole of mankind by connecting the netizens; then an email comes forward and asks, ‘if I’d not have been there, would you exist?’ The next moment the internet comes forward […]
Cybersecurity for the New Normal: 5 Steps to Building a Secure Hybrid IT Environment for Your Business
Using a hybrid IT-based cloud environment has become a norm, especially in large industries. The cloud offers both flexibility and customization of the data center as well as easy access from anywhere around the world. But there’s always a catch. A hybrid IT structure, like any other, is vulnerable to a well-designed cyber-attack. To make […]
Role of IT Security in Annual GDP Growth
Digitalization, GDP Growth and IT security threat Information Security has taken a center-stage in the nation-building process. It significantly influences the annual GDP of every nation. While digitalization is adopted rapidly, the business data flows unceasingly from one device to another, from one IT environment to another. Data generation, processing and analysis of the […]
Cyber Hygiene 101: How to Protect Your Systems in a Changing Work Environment
Due to COVID-19 schedule changes and remote access work environments, security measures that were put in place to protect traditional tech are falling short of their targets. As a result, cybercrime has become as common in the modern world as break-ins or traffic violations. According to a 2021 trends report, the frequency of phishing-related cybercrime […]
