Tread Wisely between IT Security & Convenience
An exclusive research by Gartner predicts that information security expenditure would exceed $124B by the end of 2019 globally. Despite this steep hike in cybersecurity investments, the number of cyberattacks escalated drastically this year. Most of the industries suffered badly as cyber crooks turn up with more sophisticated techniques among which identity theft tops the […]
How to Overcome the Privileged Access Challenge?
Enterprise IT security team often face challenges to maintain a control over privileged users. And it has to do with the rapid pace of digitization and virtualization, which in turn has increased the number of privileged accounts in the IT network giving access to critical applications and databases. Whether your data center is in premises, […]
Pharma Industry Data Breach Challenge: Beyond usual Industry Risks
Most pharmaceutical companies agree that the losses from cyber attacks could be escalating alarmingly in the coming days. According to the latest research report of The Economic Times group, only 5-10% pharmaceutical organizations have deployed cybersecurity solutions to combat hacks and breaches. Lack of proper data security measures are luring cyber crooks to target this […]
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 […]
