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Privilege Management SaaS Hardens Windows & Mac Endpoint Security, Protecting On-Prem & Remote Workers & Systems

​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.

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Password & Session Checkout Duration – 4 Steps to Achieving Best Practices

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.

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Three Overlooked Privileged Access Risks

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.

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Is Cybersecurity Insurance Leading to More Lax Security?

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?

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Vendor Access: Addressing the Security Challenge with Urgency

​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.

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Common Flaws with Enterprise Password Management Strategies

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?

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API Security & Privileged Access Management

​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.

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The Top IT Service Desk Priorities

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.

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3 DevOps Security Blind Spots and How to Mitigate Them

​Today it’s survival of the fastest. Product teams leverage DevOps practices and toolsets to get products and capabilities to the market and to their customers faster than ever. And today, with DevOps now well entrenched, it’s not just a matter of gaining a competitive edge, it’s a matter of keeping up with the competition. Learn the three primary secrets management-related security lapses, and how these can be curtailed in a way that minimizes end-user friction and supports the agility required across DevOps,

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