Is your organization prepared for a preemptive strike against IT threats?
The world is observing the National Cybersecurity Awareness Month in October. And the message is loud and clear: adopt best security practices within and outside the IT perimeter. Insider threats, third-party risk management, privacy control, audit and IT regulations among many other urgent IT matters calls for revisiting and establishing cybersecurity policy. The common factor […]
Insider threat: The most dreaded IT disruption is preventable
Some of the most high profile data breach incidents from recent times have originated from malicious corporate insiders. Financial gains, military intelligence, and political snooping are some of the examples of malefactor’s motive behind an attack on data assets. As the data which is being targeted is highly-sensitive in nature, the impact of an insider […]
Five Major Pitfalls to Privileged Access due to Remote Work Culture
Protecting data is always one of the most critical issues for any enterprise. Thousands of end-users access critical information on a daily basis. Any malefactor in the IT ecosystem can wreak havoc on enterprise systems. The challenge of safeguarding enterprise data has become all the more grave with the ongoing pandemic resulting in the mobile […]
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 […]
