Secure Passwords, Save your Digital Assets
Who can forget the infamous data breach incident of one of the popular file hosting service providers where more than 60 million users’ email addresses and passwords got affected? An employee just reused a password at work and that was the mistake. The password was broken through to steal the valuable records of the organization. […]
Role of PAM in meeting Regulatory Compliance
Facebook could face penalties worth in billions under GDPR (General Data Protection Act) compliance act for not following the basic policies. It happened because more than 50 million accounts were compromised due to some negligence from this social media giant. As detected during the end of September, 2018, Facebook unveiled that a particular vulnerability in […]
How to mitigate misuse of Privileged Accounts
Misuse of privileged accounts is one of the burning threats for enterprises today. The detection process is time-consuming. Even if the organizations try to calculate the amount of loss incurred from these threats, it is never possible to get the exact figures because the overall damage is irrevocable – both financial and reputation-wise. 1. Controlling […]
Healthcare Industry: Time to reinforce privileged access control
IT security awareness has become a crying need for the CIOs, CISOs and CTOs of global enterprises. After BFSI, Government, Manufacturing, IT and Pharmaceuticals industry, now Healthcare industry is facing the wrath of Cyber criminals. Off late healthcare sector has become a lucrative target for those who target compromised privileged accounts to steal sensitive information. […]
Proper Password Management: A big concern till today
A recent audit on Western Australian Government has revealed that almost 1500 employees are using same password for more than six thousand five hundred accounts. From the point of view of data security, this news has raised serious concerns on the safety of thousands of sensitive information stored in the official network. The audit also […]
Alarming Rise of Privileged Account Breaches
Digital security breaches happening globally have not spared any industry from its fangs. These breach incidents mostly take place with the help of external malefactors or malicious insiders. The ever-existing challenge of information security always comes in between smooth IT operations and data protection of small, medium and large business enterprises. The privileged accounts which […]
Data Breach Prevention: Focus of Modern Business Entrepreneurs
It has become quite rare today that we are not coming across any news of data breach incident irrespective of small or large organizations. This has forced the new and young entrepreneurs to take adequate preventive measures rather than paying price for negligence. Since digital threats are getting sophisticated day by day, they are always […]
University Students’ Data are at stake
It is definitely unruly and obnoxious to learn that the cyber crooks are not sparing education sector from their target zone. Few months back, some unethical hackers (suspected to be from Iran) made an alleged spree of malicious attacks on reputed educational institutes (mostly universities) of The United States and abroad. After hair-split investigation, the […]
Combat the Challenges of Unmonitored Privileged Accounts
Some recent alarming statistics about Privileged Access Management (PAM) yells out the danger that looms large on organizations due to unmonitored account activities. According to a leading research analyst firm, almost 80% of security breaches happening in the world involves privileged accounts. It is undoubtedly a prime time for the organizations to adopt a robust […]
Data Theft: Still a Major Concern
As more than one hundred Government websites were compromised between April 2017 to January 2018, another hair-raising incident of Provident Fund portal hack in April 2018, has put the data of 2.7 crore people at stake. With this, the revolutionary ‘Digital India’ drive strode a few steps back to raise the question of digital security […]
