Application proliferation has created identity fragmentation as user identities are inconsistently managed across applications in the enterprise, increasing risk and cost. Enterprises need to ensure users have sufficient access privileges to perform their job functions, but for compliance and security reasons it's...
Welcome to the digital economy, where whole industries are being fundamentally reshaped as organisations scramble to build new business models, tap new markets and create new sources of competitive advantage. The dynamics of digitisation that first emerged in industries such as music and video can now be seen...
Several recent health data security incidents - including two at a Florida hospital and another at a Washington state Medicaid agency - illustrate the challenges healthcare organizations face in detecting and preventing insider breaches.
President Obama is creating a federal CISO post as part of a multifaceted initiative aimed at strengthening the nation's IT security. His plan includes forming a public-private Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity and boosting government cybersecurity spending by 35 percent.
IT security and access management have never been greater challenges.
While the criminals get smarter, the IT environments become more complex to manage. Most are a hybrid of on-premise systems and a multitude of cloud providers transforming the act of role-based access management into a manual nightmare. To...
Privileged credentials have served as a major attack
vector in the successful execution of many breaches.
Protecting privileged access is an imperative to
successfully defend an organization from a breach and
is a core requirement of multiple compliance regimes.
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A new layer of security in organizations, focused specifically on the protection and management
of identities, is a critical new requirement in efforts to stem the tide of breaches. Of these identities, none are so
critical as those belonging to privileged users.
Malicious users predictably follow a logical...
Virtualization and cloud computing adoption are elevating the importance and complexity of an age-old problem: effectively managing and protecting passwords for privileged accounts. Managing and protecting privileged credentials is
essential to reducing risk and addressing compliance
requirements. Organizations need...
Organizations handling transactions involving credit or debit cards are facing increasing pressure to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data
Security Standard (PCI DSS) version 3, which established
various requirements for safeguarding an organization's relevant systems and networks, comprising the
Cardholder...
To not only survive in the application economy, businesses are undergoing a digital transformation in which they
add digital components to all of their products and services. This
means having to develop for and integrate with a variety of APIs,
microservices, cloud applications and infrastructures-...
Files may be secure within a network using perimeter-based solutions. They may even remain secure during transit using encryption technologies. But what happens once recipients obtain and decrypt those files? How do you keep information secure as the file gets passed around or downloaded onto a flash drive? How can...
Despite the frequency of healthcare data breaches, only half of U.S. hospitals have the infrastructure to support two-factor authentication, according to a new report. Plus, some information security leaders say implementation of the technology at many of those facilities is likely relatively narrow.
Today's cybercriminals are aware of the fraud prevention technologies deployed by most financial institutions, and they design attacks to circumvent these controls. Transaction anomaly detection and device ID approaches can be highly inaccurate, generating a large number of false positive alerts that can overwhelm IT...
This $2 billion manufacturer - with customers in the nuclear, defense, aerospace and power generation industries - chose Thycotic Secret Server to secure and manage their privileged account passwords across its global enterprise.
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Why privileged account management is a major...
This free Privileged Password Security Policy Template gives you best-practice policies to help your organization improve IT security and demonstrate regulatory compliance. You'll save hours of effort leveraging these policies that are easily customizable in a matter of minutes.
Downloaded as an editable, easily...
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