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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 […]
Slack cyber security readiness can bloat insurance policies
That a failure to prevent cyber-attack can destabilize a business has led global CIOs and CISOs to up the ante against ever looming cybercrime in the last couple of years amidst a spate of highly sophisticated assaults on internet, banking institutions, and social media companies. A cyber-attack not only hurts productivity of affected organizations as […]
Are you monitoring user behavior?
The year 2016 saw some of the biggest cybercrimes of our times. From the Central Bank of Bangladesh getting stolen in a multimillion online fraud to hackers intruding a bitcoin exchange and from cyber crook hacking a baby monitor to Mark Zuckerberg falling prey to weak password management—a myriad of incidents brought to the forefront […]
Cyber Vulnerability: Five Common Mistakes Firms Make
Notwithstanding big IT security budgets, global organizations are up to a big challenge. Incidents of hacking and data breaches surface far too often, undermining growing cyber vulnerabilities of companies. From startups to multinationals —organizations of all shapes and sizes constantly risk getting swindled online as the usage of tablets, smartphones, and other internet-enabled devices proliferates […]
Cashless Transactions: Great concept but are we prepared?
On November 8th2016, the government of India, in a very surprising but bold move, announced a very far-reaching decision to void all 500 rupee and 1000 rupee notes in the circulation. The decision is seen as a major crackdown on rampant corruption, hording, money laundering and fake currency rackets. But more importantly, it points towards […]
