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Are healthcare chains doing enough to protect data privacy?
Recently, an exclusive report from The Economic Times has unveiled that almost one million medical files of Indian patients were openly accessed online. With zero security measures for the privacy of sensitive details like patients’ names, addresses, date of birth, mobile numbers, Identification numbers, ailment types, physician details et al, a couple of reputed hospitals […]
What can we learn from this massive IoT breach?
In a recent shocking incident, an organized cyber criminal group hacked the usernames and passwords of servers and routers of over 5 lakhs Internet of Things (IoT) devices. It has shocked the entire IT security community of the USA and the rest of the world. It is quite imperative to note that the hackers intended […]
Unguarded Servers: Major reason behind data breaches of 2019
Overview A good number of alarming data breach incidents in 2019 have emphasized on the fact that unmonitored or uncontrolled servers are the biggest reasons behind organizations’ financial and reputational downfall. One of the biggest public sector banks in India exposed the data of more than 420 million customers at the beginning of 2019. Investigation […]
Data Breach: Time to identify Inherent Risks and adopt preventive measures
(Continuing from Part – 1) While we discussed rising cyber-threats and financial costs associated with those in the previous article, ARCON identifies the major reasons behind Information Security related threats in this edition. Organizations risk the integrity and confidentiality of data when there is a lack of robust password management policy. Normally, there are many […]
Data Breach: Time to identify Inherent Risks and adopt preventive measures
The cyber world continued to witness sophisticated attacks this year as well. Some alarming statistics highlights that the state of cyber- security preparedness is not up to the mark. Indeed, recently, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) announced that more than 21,400 Indian websites were hacked till October 2019 which is a sharp rise […]
How PAM can work wonders in the Media/ Entertainment industry
(Continues from Part – 1…) How did this happen and why? There is extensive data flow in the media industry. There are multiple sources from where data is accumulated and stored in databases and servers in different forms. The most common types/ categories of data that media companies generate are: Detailed news, reports or interviews […]
How PAM can work wonders in the Media/ Entertainment industry
Note: We have split the article into 2 halves. In Part -1 , we have discussed Media industry and what kind of cyber threats this industry has already faced. In Part – 2, we have discussed how these cyber threats happen, why they happen and what is the solution for this Just think of a […]
Why your enterprise requires an adaptive authentication?
Far too often, security lapses around privileged identities happen in the absence of restrictive access to critical systems or if there is no implementation of least privilege principle. With so many users, user groups, service groups accessing critical systems, applications, databases and cloud resources from distributed and heterogeneous IT environment, — maintaining data integrity becomes […]
Five mistakes that often leads to compromise of endpoints
Some of the most grave IT risks arise due to inadequate endpoint privilege management. As we discussed in our previous article, a lackadaisical attitude in controlling and monitoring endpoint privileges often leads to compromise of sensitive data. In this article we would like to highlight the top five mistakes that organizations make with regard to […]
How ARCON Privileged Access Management could have averted this Nuclear Plant disaster
Cyber criminals have turned their eyes on nuclear power plants now. Another malware attack struch hard in one of the nuclear plants in the southern part of India recently. It has not only disrupted the generation of electricity in the plant, but also raised burning questions related to secure privileged access. Forensic investigation by the […]
