Most organizations recognize the need for least privilege but can stray off the path to full endpoint security after removing local admins, leaving points of access vulnerable for threat actors. How do you make sure your organization is fully secured without negatively impacting end user productivity and overall...
Security teams must ramp up controls for protecting all privileged identities — human and non-human — that come into contact with servers. After all, servers are the lifeblood of an organization, hosting essential applications, databases, websites and IT services. However, Windows and Linux servers in particular...
Eric Eddy, principal technical marketing engineer at Cisco, discusses critical aspects of user-centric security. From alleviating the security burden on users to the role of zero trust in granting access, Eric provides actionable insights for achieving a seamless and robust security posture.
CyberArk, BeyondTrust and Delinea maintained their spots atop Gartner's privileged access management Magic Quadrant, while One Identity, Wallix and Arcon fell from the leader ranks. Over the past half-decade, PAM has gone from being required for large companies to being an insurance prerequisite.
In the latest weekly update, four editors at ISMG discuss important cybersecurity and privacy issues, including how to keep assets secure in the quantum era, when common usernames pose a cybersecurity threat, and how to strike the right balance between regulation and innovation in AI.
Honeypot data collected by CISO Jesse La Grew highlights how attackers continue to target default usernames - including for SSH - together with weak passwords to gain brute force remote access to their targets. Here are essential username, password and remote service practices for combating such attacks.
Expanding the Reach of Your Identity Security Solution to Encompass All Users and Identities
Comprehensive identity security is critical to ensure smooth operations and business continuity in an interconnected digital world. But with the continuously rapid increase of digital identities - human and non-human -...
Duo offers a variety of features that can help you secure your organization's resources quickly and easily, including Multi-factor authentication (MFA), Device verification and Risk-based policies
The crazy fluctuations in the stock market over the past 14 months can drive short-term thinking for publicly traded firms, said CEO Fran Rosch. A proposed $2.3 billion buy by Thoma Bravo would allow ForgeRock to think about the best long-term investments and opportunities in the identity market.
A finalist at this year's RSA Innovation Sandbox contest landed Series A funding to detect threats and secure access for nonhuman identities. The $25 million will enable Astrix Security to expand from managing access for nonhuman identities to understanding threats to services and applications.
The modern threat environment continues to evolve, with automation,
the move to the cloud, software as a service, AI, new user expectations
and increasingly sophisticated attacks from threat actors. How do we
cope with those changes today - and the certainty that there will be
new challenges tomorrow?
We do so by...
Learn about best practices for privileged access management (PAM) in the context of how you’d secure valuables in your own home. In this episode of The Drawing Board, our experts discuss three PAM controls for guarding the pathways leading to the most sensitive resources in your house:
Hardware-based authentication vendor Yubico plans to go public at an $800 million valuation by merging with a special purpose acquisition company. The Swedish firm said becoming publicly traded will accelerate Yubico's push to enter adjacent authentication markets and land clients in new verticals.
In the latest weekly update, Venable's Jeremy Grant joins ISMG editors to discuss how to defend against the increasing use of MFA fatigue attacks, takeaways from a recent U.S. probe into compliance issues related to Login.gov services and the latest updates on the Improving Digital Identity Act.
Zero trust principles and architectures are being widely embraced and adopted by the public and private sectors. Legacy security architectures and network defenses are simply ineffective at managing a world more reliant on the cloud and remote workers. Almost every attack today requires privilege for the initial...
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