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. […]
How multiple IT set-up layers compromise privileged accounts?
In this digital age, data is the most valued asset for organizations. What we observe today is a quantum leap forward in the way organizations collate and manage data to comprehend business and market patterns, trends, and unfamiliar correlations through big data analytics and artificial intelligence. But as information technology transforms our day-to-day activities, our […]
Are Fintech startups prepared to endure cyber risks?
Probably the only startup fad that came any near to match present-day thrill surrounding the Fintech startup scene waswitnessed at the end of last decade when young motivated engineering and MBA grads presented exciting business models to earnseed funding for renewable energy business ideas. That fad, however, capsized rather quickly as the global economic meltdown […]
Do you have a security net for Privileged Accounts?
Innovation drives growth, which in turn, requires global enterprises to cultivate IT ecosystems for collating, comprehending, and managing a growing amount of vital information (data) to stay ahead of the competition. That transition, however, multiplies our network of IT resources. As organizations look to gain an edge—critical data, devices, software applications, and systems necessary to […]
Be mindful of your online footprints
Those powerful sets of algorithms coded by search engine and social media giants have made human interaction on internet more purposeful and fruitful. Plan a holiday in remote foothills of Himalayas or sunny beaches in Spain or surf online any popular clothing retail chain, chances are high that your next browsing session would be packed […]
