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 […]
Covid 19: New Paradigms and Cyber Security for Enterprises
The global economy is in turmoil. The novel Covid 19 syndrome or Coronavirus has plunged the world order in chaos and uncertainty. If the stock markets are any barometer then we stare at troubled times ahead. With trillions of dollars wiped out in the stock markets due to rising uncertainty, an economic slowdown looks impending […]
Cyber Insurance: A must for today’s organizations
Overview The importance of cyber insurance was first acknowledged by global enterprises way back in 2003 just after the California Security Breach and Information Act came into effect. Major Cybercrimes that involve malware, ransomware, phishing, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and even malicious insider threats were the concerns for organizations. Securing their data assets was the […]
Managing ‘Trust’ is critical in a distributed IT environment
Overview Gone are those days when the core of IT security used to be confined within data centers. The concentration of the IT security officials is no longer restricted towards securing the database servers from unauthorized access, monitoring network administrators and their activities. Modern IT environments are more inclined towards advanced technologies that are more […]
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 […]
