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 […]
Is your organization controlling access to critical systems?
In the wake of numerous incidents involving abuse of privileged credentials and data breach, organizations are looking for more robust technology that could monitor privileged user activities in real-time and at the same time protect the critical business information from malicious actors. While robust validation mechanism helps in building the foundation for best privileged practices, […]
Reinforcing Information Security – Need of the hour in Africa
Threat Landscape One of the major news channels of South Africa suffered massive data breach compromising data of 60 million users (mostly South African citizens) during March 2017. This is considered to be the largest data breach incident in the history of South Africa. Once the hacking news spread like wildfire among the cyber security […]
How robust is your Password Management?
Do we ever forget or share security numbers of our safety lockers in banks where we keep our precious and valuable items for security? Or do we ever share ATM pins or internet banking credentials with anyone? Then why can’t we keep the same habit for securing digital identities? We come across numerous stray incidents […]
IOTs: Serious cyber risks but we can secure those
IoT (Internet of Things) has made our lives comfortable, easy, smart, exciting and it has spurred innovation too. The boom of IoT in the recent past is expected to have a huge amount of monetary involvement that can surpass millions of dollars. Young entrepreneurs have been developing groundbreaking ideas that can take this innovation to […]
Protecting health information: Time to be proactive not reactive
More than a week back, Singapore National Public Health Authority revealed that almost 14,000 health records of people from Singapore and other foreign nationals were compromised and leaked online. “I’m sorry that one of our former staff who was authorized to have access to confidential information in our HIV registry appears to not have complied […]
The Importance of Privileged Access Management knows no bounds
A young man named Sumit joined an organization as a junior sales associate. The company allotted him a laptop for his daily work activities. Sumit found that the laptop was used by the previous employee and it was given to him since he is no more associated with the organization. However, Sumit did not bother […]
Privileged Access Management: A Remedy for Data Security
There was a recent data breach incident in one of the global E-commerce giants. Immediately after the news turned epidemic, the management dished out the queries and criticism and claimed that they have fixed the issue in no time. They even informed the customers who are possibly affected by the ‘breach’ incident. However, it is […]
