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Why is it crucial to segment privileged identities?
Overview Can we think of an organization that does not have any segmentation of departments like marketing, finance, HR & Administration? The answer is probably NO – even if there is, the organization can never ensure systematic day to day activities. We don’t need to explain the importance of segregating the employees in various departments […]
Privileged Access Security in MSP environment
Privileged Security is indispensable for MSP environment Today, organizations are managing their IT infrastructure with an increased number of challenges. They have to monitor too many privileged accounts in the vast IT network and manage the security of a huge stream of data. Thus, organizations find Managed Service Providers (MSPs) as better alternatives to handle […]
Personal Data Protection Bill: A Government of India’s push to ensure data integrity
About the Bill The Government of India has proposed and introduced the draft of the Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill to the Joint Parliamentary Committee in the Lok Sabha recently. This bill is going to be the Government of India’s another milestone in cyber security space after “Digital India” drive a couple of years back. […]
ARCON Predicts Top Three Security Trends for 2020
With 2020 almost at our threshold, the evolution of digital technology is expected to take a big leap this year, thanks to the influence of Cloud computing, Big Data, AI and IoT. Technology, while getting more advanced, brings sophisticated cyber threats simultaneously that can strike hard in organizations across every industry. Truly, cyber threats will […]
As ARCON predicted…data breach incidents are rising due to lack of Privileged Access Management
As we are preparing to bid adieu to 2019, let us see how our prediction at the beginning of the year got proved to be accurate. In one of our blogs, we discussed that managing data in shared and distributed environment, migrating data to the cloud environment, hosting data in MSP environment and compliance with […]
Importance of Information Security in CSR
What is CSR? The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) was first discussed in the 1950s though it was widely acknowledged much later during the late 1990s. The core idea of CSR is to integrate business with responsibilities towards our society and environment. CSR, in this way, is considered as the most convincing way to […]
‘The More, The Better’: it’s not the case always…
The power in numbers Remember our school days, when we were taught in Mathematics, that if a particular task is completed by 5 people in 10 hours, then 10 people would complete the same task in 5 hours? The conventional adage suggests that the more number of people, the less number of time and energy […]
Stoicism can leave organizations vulnerable to cyber-crime
What is Stoicism? Every human mind has different nature of thinking process. Each aspect of our life is influenced by our tendencies, habits, preference of comfort zones and … we all wish to avoid risk factors. We always tend to take up safe and easy ways for survival. The Greek philosophers originated the idea of […]
Resistance to cultural change plays spoilsport to strengthen enterprise IT security (Part – 2)
How can we overcome cultural resistance? In our previous blog (posted on 30th August 2019) we discussed how resistance to IT cultural changes can obstruct organizations from strengthening their enterprise security posture. In this blog, we are going to discuss five ways how this crisis situation can be handled effectively by assuaging the workforce’s fear […]
Resistance to cultural change plays spoilsport to strengthen enterprise IT security (Part – 1)
Recently, while interviewing some of the global CIOs and CISOs in an event regarding the reason of extensive privileged account compromise, we came across a very interesting point of view, which was highlighted by a few of the respondents. Work culture and employee mindset can be a big barrier in establishing a robust IT security […]
