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Protecting data in IOT era
>To add value proposition and boost productivity for business, organizations have been transforming their day-to-day operations by investing more on the internet of things (IOTs). Microprocessors and sensors connected to the internet add immense value to business as these devices transmit critical data in a real-time. From internet connected medical devices to sensors deployed at […]
Is your organization equipped for timely detection?
Theft or misuse of critical information assets from compromised insiders, in most cases, occurs as organizations fail to timely detect unusual or suspicious activities around privileged accounts— gateway to highly confidential information that is stored in database servers, devices, applications of a typical data center. While a growing crop of organizations—large or small—are turning more […]
Why it is essential to build resilience around privileged accounts?
Would you ever leave your home unlocked? Unless you have a lost the key or it’s an unintended blunder, keeping our home safe and secure is always of utmost importance for everyone. And that’s why people also spend money on some highly advanced surveillance and access systems available in the market that provides security against […]
From emails to admin passwords leaks: rising vulnerability of media companies
Sophisticated cyber-attacks aimed at stealing confidential data and disabling IT systems are not just confined to banking, health care industry or government organizations, but media companies are too becoming targets. Indeed, a string of attacks on intellectual property, private emails and entire systems shows that media houses can fall prey to cyber criminals as well […]
Protecting privileged accounts … beyond the perimeter security
p>Perimeter security is receiving the utmost attention nowadays as advanced cyber threats originating from rogue state actors, hackers and cyber criminals targeting critical information assets have sharply increased. Today, malware and ransomware attacks are most widely feared threats along with insider threats. Malware is a malicious software program that masquerades as an antivirus software to […]
WannaCry attack: Time to shore up data and cyber security
The recent ransomware attack dubbed as WannaCry brings to the forefront one of the most recurrent challenges global organizations are confronting today: safeguarding business data from cyber crooks. Indeed, as modern-day enterprises embrace digital revolution, critical data has become the most prized-asset, which cyber criminals look to seize by taking your information systems to hostage […]
Privileged Access Misuse: Four common mistakes firms make
Any modern-day enterprise’s information systems setup is not static. It grows as business expands. And as business goes through a transition period amidst rising amount of workloads shifting to cloud, the administrative accounts – logon credentials with elevated permission to access servers, critical data bases, and applications—also multiply. Organizations risks data breach lest privileged accounts […]
How secured are you against data extrusion threat?
Having at the forefront of information risk management industry for more than a decade now, we have observed that enterprises remain most vulnerable in protecting their highly critical asset—data. Our implementation team, which has been mapping diverse IT architectures of enterprises of all shapes and sizes and integrating risk-control solutions, often finds that firms usually […]
Are datacenters fortified to pevent the misuse of shared privileged accounts?
Amidst rising threat of cyber crime, enterprises today maintain datacenters with more robust security measures. To thwart and detect advanced threats, the IT security departments deploy a host of antivirus and antimalware software in datacenters; whilst several provisions like the Identity Detection Systems (IDS), Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), and sandboxing help monitoring the network traffic. […]
How malicious activities around privileged accounts go undetected?
Structuring IT infrastructure in multiple layers of devices and applications brings many benefits. As we discussed earlier, multiple layers of devices allow flexibility in managing vendors and streamlines operations as firm can assign separate teams for overseeing each layer. Likewise, it helps in averting total system breakdown as there is no single point of failure. […]
