This blog dissects interesting cybersecurity data points presented by the 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) with the added context of how coronavirus is likely to, and is already, impacting trends.
Today, BeyondTrust announced our industry-leading Privilege Management for Windows & Mac solution is now available as SaaS (software-as-a-service). Our SaaS-based solution empowers organizations to eliminate admin rights quickly and efficiently across Windows and Mac endpoints, without disrupting user productivity. With BeyondTrust PAM SaaS solutions, customers get the best of both worlds, removing the burden of managing their infrastructure, while enjoying the feature-richness of the cloud and the flexibility of a subscription-based model.
How long should privileged password and privileged session checkout durations last? This is a common question that consistently arises when I speak with security professionals. To make the best decision, IT and security teams need to evaluate, categorize, and then prioritize the types of privileged accounts and their usage. This blog covers the best practices.
This blog parses through key findings of recent research around identity-based threat vectors and cybersecurity controls. It also assesses the impact of recent trends (remote work, BYOD, shadow IT), such as in response to COVID-19.
Most practitioners of Privileged Access Management (PAM) tend to focus on reducing, managing, securing, and auditing the administrator and root accounts that have god-like access to their environment and assets. However, there are plenty of other privileged activities that have abstract access within your environment that can cause a world of pain if not properly managed.
Without question, cybersecurity insurance is gaining popularity amongst companies, who, in today’s threat environment, are constantly besieged by both internal and external threats. Is cybersecurity insurance a valid way to insure from damage against assets, data, customers, branding, and ransom cost related to ransomware?
This month, Microsoft has patched 111 vulnerabilities with 13 of them being classified as Critical. Learn more.
The coronavirus pandemic has forced thousands of companies to make leaps in their digital transformation journey. Businesses and public sector agencies were already challenged by remote access, BYOD, and cloud adoption. Now, the coronavirus has raised the stakes. Almost everyone I know that’s working is doing so using remote access because of COVID-19 social distancing and/or stay at home guidelines and orders.
The average employee has 191 passwords (this does not even take into consideration privileged credentials!), with the average 250-person company having over 47,000 passwords used across the organization. Thus, it’s easy to see how the scale of this password management challenge can present a logistical nightmare even for relatively small businesses. Yet, modern security absolutely hinges on protecting the identity—and that means securing the credentials. What are organizations getting wrong with password management, and how can they rectify it?
I always try to remind people that the principle of least privilege is not just about security, but about productivity as well. I have multiple customers who have decreased the number of tickets to their service desk by a whopping 75% by getting rid of end-user admin rights.
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) provide a vehicle for resources--irrespective of vendor, cloud technology, or even legacy on-premise solution—to exchange information and initiate tasks and workflows. Today, APIs are a powerful force behind the automation, integration, continuous development (CD), and secure development operations (DevSecOps) that is powering the next wave of technology innovation. Not all APIs are created equal and, most importantly, the security to prevent malicious abuse of the API can vary just as wildly between vendors as well serving similar functions.
As you look to optimize your service desk through 2020 and even beyond, you’ll probably realize that many of your IT service desk challenges have been around in one form or another for awhile. For example, an increasing volume of IT support tickets are being created and that they need to be handled with minimal budget uplift. Plus, there are heightened employee expectations – with corporate service providers, such as IT, expected to deliver capabilities on par with what the employees expect in their personal lives from consumer IT.
