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Are you monitoring your IT end users to mitigate suspicious behavior?
Do you remember the infamous data breach incident of Desjardin three months back? According to the statement of the officials, the entire world was shocked to learn that the organization suffered massive breach of sensitive and confidential information of 2.7 million people and 1,73,000 organizations. This data consists of names, email Ids, addresses, birth dates, […]
Some Common Mistakes Leading to Privileged Access Misuse
In the age of digitization, while organizations are busy with the digital transformation, cyber crooks take this as an opportunity to look out for loopholes in the security of IT infrastructure and exploit them to steal as much information as possible. The administrative IDs and privileged credentials are the most vulnerable among all. Organizations very […]
Strengthen Access Control Mechanism to Mitigate Third Party Risks
Banks continue to be the most targeted organizations by data-greedy hackers in this digital economy. While several reports show that the compliance framework among European organizations is still not up to the mark post-implementation of the GDPR — a period that witnessed several data breach incidents, another breach incident has raised a fresh question on […]
Protecting Passwords: The key to securely lock enterprise digital assets
A few months back, Facebook, the social media giant, acquired the headlines of cyber security news due to poor password management. Millions of users’ private credentials were stored in plain text format which was revealed by a reporter in a security blog. Although Facebook has denied the privacy breach of those million users (many of […]
Cyber Criminals Target Data, not Industry
Today, data breach incidents have become common news headlines across the globe. A layman’s psychological traits drive the idea of any data breach incident towards financial institutions. According to the trends and our findings, we come across several instances where people estimate the common reason for any breach incident is to take hostage of confidential […]
Are Government Organizations Ready to Tackle Cyber Warfare?
Government data of any nation across the globe is a gold mine for hackers. This data normally consists of sensitive information and strategic blueprints including private public data containing name, age, date of birth, address, personal identification number or even passport number, registered mobile numbers and so forth. This data is highly lucrative for cyber […]
Strengthen Compliance Framework to Avoid Hefty Regulatory Fines
British Airways has been slapped with a record fine of lump sum £183m for last year’s information breach of 380,000 customers. This aviation giant has already met with an irrevocable reputation damage last year having confessed to a major information breach of thousands of passengers whose name, email address and credit card information (those who […]
This Massive Information Breach should be an Eye-Opener
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) must have been embarrassed to be in the news of being a victim of data breach. However, the fact is, this “unexpected” incident has reminded the cyber world that there is no organization in the world which is foolproof against cyber-crime. Moreover, it has also brought to the […]
Half-baked Measures to control Privileged Access can Jeopardize IT Infra
ARCON recently came across a very interesting use case. Our pre-sales team was asked by one of the leading manufacturing organizations to provide a demo to understand the benefits of ARCON Privileged Access Management as its IT risk control team wanted to reinforce privileged access control for security purposes. Following a demo, the IT risk […]
Track Privileged Accounts to Avoid Catastrophe
The advancement in information technology has brought forth boon on one hand and bane on the other. While technology advancements like cloud computing and big data have created IT operational efficiencies, a large pool of data created out of it has resulted in security vulnerabilities. It is a challenge for IT pros of a typical […]
