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DDoS Attack on your Privileged Accounts might create mayhem
The National Stock Exchange from one of the APAC countries was recently struck by DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack. The incident happened twice on two consecutive days forcing the stock market to halt for quite some time. Despite this cyber-attack, the exchange was up at the close of business fortunately. According to official sources, […]
Why is government data extremely vulnerable to breach?
The US Presidential election is just a few months away. Cybersecurity would be on top of the mind of the authorities. Do you remember how the Presidential election became a target of organized cyber criminals in 2016? In one of our old articles, we discussed how the Presidential Election of 2016 suffered due to the […]
Are security patches securely stored?
Cyber threats and vulnerabilities have increased significantly in the last few months. Organized cybercriminals are becoming increasingly canny and the nature of cyber risks are getting more and more advanced. Despite a considerable increase in the annual spending for cybersecurity by global organizations, an alarming increase has been witnessed in data breach incidents. Almost 60% […]
Password: A major security vulnerability
Just think of our day-to-day life. Typically, we all have common passwords for email accounts, social media accounts and bank accounts, which can result in a nightmare, if compromised. On a personal level, if a password breach can affect us so gravely, what would happen if the same happens to privileged accounts for a large […]
Excessive Standing Privileges: A gateway to IT disaster
Organizations adopt privileged access security practices with a well-defined framework as to people and policies to ensure restricted access to privileged accounts. Privileged accounts have elevated access to confidential information stored in systems and business-critical applications. Nevertheless, organizations make one huge mistake, very often… far too many standing privileges are created. This practice often leads […]
Real-time threat detection in digital workplace
Overview Monitoring ‘trust’ is very important in the Zero Trust IT framework. This is critical because human nature is unpredictable. Human intent moves towards whatever is favourable in the surroundings. In the enterprise IT network, anomalous end-user behaviour is influenced by greed, or any other bad motive, which can disrupt IT operations. With the digital […]
Targeted Attacks on confidential data
A popular European budget airline has recently revealed that it had suffered a “highly sophisticated” cyberattack exposing names, email addresses and travel details of almost 9 million customers. This incident has shaken the world of cybersecurity and has forced the IT security officials to rethink about the robustness of access control management and overall cybersecurity […]
Remote Access: Top 5 Threats
“Is Remote Access safe?” – the entire IT security community is pondering over this million-dollar question, thanks to the COVID 19 pandemic. In order to have an uninterrupted business process, the IT administrators are mandating employees to work remotely. In this scenario, the organized cybercriminals are creating their wonderland out of this pandemic situation to […]
Two Fatal Mistakes in Privileged Access Management
Overview During this critical hour of COVID-19 pandemic, global organizations are counting on Work From Home strategy to maintain business continuity. Due to this unprecedented situation, most of the organizations couldn’t get enough time to evaluate their security of IT infrastructure before allowing employees to work as remote users. Even the organizations that were already […]
Data Privacy amid rising Insider Threats
One of the largest banks in India became an easy target of malicious insiders. A massive data breach yet again due to lack of confidential data security controls has brought to the forefront an urgent need for robust security solutions like Privileged Access Management. The Incident A popular nationalized bank suffered a security breach causing […]
