Attackers crave insider-level access to IT infrastructure and regularly target insiders - and especially administrators- to steal their credentials, says BeyondTrust's Karl Lankford, who advises organizations to ensure they manage, monitor and audit all privileged access.
Authentication, authorization and accountability are three facets of a comprehensive privileged credentialing approach that aid in the mitigation of breaches from internal and external threats.
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The business challenges of securing privileged accounts;
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A core problem in all identity and access management (IAM) systems is how to help requesters articulate access requests. A typical business user, without a technical knowledge of how access rights are
calculated in each system or application, faces a daunting challenge in selecting just the right entitlements
from...
Multiple account repositories and the management of identities and entitlements across applications are commonplace in many organizations. Whether it is mitigating the threats legacy systems present in the securing of these accounts and identities or assigning credentials and entitlements appropriately, businesses...
As part of healthcare's digital transformation, payers and providers alike have rolled out patient portals and telemedicine platforms to increase access to care, improve patient participation and decrease healthcare administrative costs.
How secure are these portals? What types of authentication protocols are used to...
As part of healthcare's digital transformation, payers and providers alike have rolled out patient portals and telemedicine platforms to increase access to care, improve patient participation and decrease healthcare administrative costs.
How secure are these portals? What types of authentication protocols are used to...
Analysts state 80% of cyber security incidents are caused by credential misuse, with 54% of organisations using inflexible methods such as MS Excel to manage privileged access. Ineffective credential management can also result in the propagation of malware.
However, there is a fast and effective way of "mining"...
The Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report 2019 analyzes the data from security bullitens issued by Microsoft throughout 2018. On the second Tuesday of every month, or "Patch Tuesday," Microsoft releases fixes for any vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products. This report compiles these releases into one, holistic...
Attack Surface Manager (ASM) gives security teams unprecedented power to easily implement a cyber hygiene program to harden their networks against malicious lateral movement of cyberattackers. This paper provides an overview of common ways that Illusive's customers are using Attack Surface Manager, including...
Access risk: Security leaders understand their governance and technology challenges. But addressing them with new automated tools - and selling these new processes within their organizations? Those are the problems attendees attempted to solve at a recent dinner in Philadelphia.
Research results from over 1,000 global key decision makers with visibility over access management confirm that security professionals are aware that a breach is only a matter of time, with 50% of respondents having already suffered a serious breach or expecting to experience one over the next six months (up from 42%...
Unix and Linux build the foundation for most business-critical systems. Thus, they present target-rich environments for cyber-attackers. Privileged Access Management (PAM) helps to mitigate such risks. To succeed, security teams must follow an integrated approach, covering both privilege elevation and centralized...
System Administrators are no loner managing boxes sitting under their desks; Now, they're coding their infrastructure. The new digital users, enforced by the as-a-service business model, leave them facing critical challenges to manage and interconnect increasingly diverse systems, and to ensure scalability and...
The computer systems the U.S. Department of the Treasury uses to track the nation's debt have serious security flaws that could allow unauthorized access to a wealth of federal data, according to a pair of audits released this week by the Government Accountability Office.
Overall, Password Strength Scores follow the trends for Security
Scores: As companies get bigger, on average their Password
Strength Score goes down.
For businesses with fewer than 25 employees, the average total
Password Strength Score is 53. At more than 10,000 employees,
the average score drops to...
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