– “Looking ahead helps us anticipate where cyber threat actors will undoubtedly head, and preparing for what’s ahead makes all the difference in risk management effectiveness,” said Morey Haber, Chief Security Officer at BeyondTrust. “At BeyondTrust, we plan to provide the best security solutions to address current and future attack vectors, which our customers and partners expect.”
– Join identity and experts at KuppingerCole Analysts and BeyondTrust as they discuss the impact of the evolution of business IT, the trends shaping the identity landscape, the importance of identity security, and the role of privileged access management (PAM), cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM), and identity threat detection and response (ITDR).
– BeyondTrust, a cybersecurity company that provides privileged access management solutions, was among the Okta customers affected by Okta’s customer support breach. The company acknowledged that the attackers had gained access to some of its internal systems but maintained that customer data remained secure.
– Fears that the breach could allow attackers to escalate attacks on legitimate customer accounts were realized on 2 October, with malicious activity against identity management firm BeyondTrust having arisen from one of its internal Okta accounts.
– Thursday’s disclosure comes two weeks after Okta revealed that hackers compromised its customer support system and obtained credentials that allowed them to take control of customers’ internal Okta administration accounts. The attackers then used those credentials in follow-on hacks that targeted the internal administration accounts of 1Password, BeyondTrust, Cloudflare, and possibly other customers.
– SecureAuth, an access management and authentication specialist, has announced its expanded technology partnership with BeyondTrust, an intelligent identity and access security company. This strategic alliance takes the form of a deeper integration with Arculix, SecureAuth’s passwordless authentication solution, with BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access for SAML, Linux and Unix and BeyondTrust Password Safe.
– The October 2023 OKTA support system attack that so far has publicly involved Cloudflare, 1Password and BeyondTrust informs us just how fragile and vulnerable our cloud applications are because they are built using access tokens to authenticate counterparties.
– BeyondTrust has announced its predictions for the primary cybersecurity threats slated to affect organisations globally in 2024. The analysis was prepared by cybersecurity experts Morey J. Haber, Chief Security Officer; Christopher Hills, Chief Security Strategist; and James Maude, the Director of Research at BeyondTrust.
– BeyondTrust has announced its predictions for the primary cybersecurity threats slated to affect organisations globally in 2024. The analysis was prepared by cybersecurity experts Morey J. Haber, Chief Security Officer; Christopher Hills, Chief Security Strategist; and James Maude, the Director of Research at BeyondTrust.
– BeyondTrust has announced its predictions for the primary cybersecurity threats slated to affect organisations globally in 2024. The analysis was prepared by cybersecurity experts Morey J. Haber, Chief Security Officer; Christopher Hills, Chief Security Strategist; and James Maude, the Director of Research at BeyondTrust.
– BeyondTrust has announced its predictions for the primary cybersecurity threats slated to affect organisations globally in 2024. The analysis was prepared by cybersecurity experts Morey J. Haber, Chief Security Officer; Christopher Hills, Chief Security Strategist; and James Maude, the Director of Research at BeyondTrust.
– BeyondTrust, the worldwide leader in intelligent identity and access security, today released its annual forecast of cybersecurity trends emerging for the New Year and beyond. These projections, authored by BeyondTrust experts Morey J. Haber, Chief Security Officer; Christopher Hills, Chief Security Strategist; and James Maude, Director of Research, are based on shifts in technology, threat actor habits, culture, and decades of combined experience.
– BeyondTrust today released its annual forecast of cybersecurity trends emerging for the New Year and beyond. These projections are based on shifts in technology, threat actor habits, culture, and decades of combined experience.
– In the modern threat landscape, identity and privilege are at the forefront of cyberattacks. Organizations increasingly recognize they need more robust security measures, including identity-based security practices, to mitigate threats and safeguard their data and operations, says BeyondTrust Chief Security Officer Morey Haber.
– "BeyondTrust Intelligent Identity & Access Security solutions integrate with Arculix by SecureAuth, their next-gen passwordless continuous authentication with the recent technical validation for our three privilege management access product lines to ensure only authorized users can access privileged accounts - while enhancing the authentication experience for the account owners," said David Manks, Vice President of Worldwide Alliances of BeyondTrust. "This integration offers enterprises the ability to reinforce security while providing a frictionless user experience."
– Beyond Trust cautioned that the increasing role of AI in technology development, changes in communication technology, and new threats and attack vectors must be managed as risk factors, said Morey Haber, BeyondTrust chief security officer.
– Identity management service Okta announced a breach of their support case management system. Notably, other companies, BeyondTrust, Cloudflare, and 1Password, identified the breach before Okta publicly announced it. While Okta has reportedly reached out to affected customers, you may want to consider contacting them if you use Okta.
– “I was very worried if they weren’t coming and telling us that there’s an issue that maybe there’s something going on that they don’t know about,” BeyondTrust CTO Marc Maiffret said. “Until they confirmed, I felt a little bit like a crazy person just trying to get some root cause understanding.”
– “BeyondTrust Intelligent Identity & Access Security solutions integrate with Arculix by SecureAuth, their next-gen passwordless continuous authentication, with the recent technical validation for our three privilege management access product lines to ensure only authorized users can access privileged accounts – while enhancing the authentication experience for the account owners,” says David Manks, VP of Worldwide Alliances of BeyondTrust. “This integration offers enterprises the ability to reinforce security while providing a frictionless user experience.”
– “Looking ahead helps us anticipate where cyber threat actors will undoubtedly head, and preparing for what’s ahead makes all the difference in risk management effectiveness,” said Morey Haber, Chief Security Officer at BeyondTrust. “At BeyondTrust, we plan to provide the best security solutions to address current and future attack vectors, which our customers and partners expect.”
– 1Password also affected by Okta Support System breach Following in the footsteps of BeyondTrust and CloudFlare, 1Password has revealed that it has been affected by the Okta Support System breach.
– In a few minutes David Shipley of Beauceron Security will be here to discuss recent news. That includes the admission by identity management provider Okta that a hacker compromised its customer support system and then saw customer technical files that included credentials. 1Passord, Cloudflare and BeyondTrust said their systems were attacked as a result of this compromise.
– Both BeyondTrust and Cloudflare criticized Okta for its slow response to the incident, with BeyondTrust stating that they notified Okta of the breach on October 2, and that it took Okta sixteen days to resolve the breach.
– BeyondTrust published a blog Friday revealing that it first alerted Okta of a potential breach after detecting initial threat activity in the BeyondTrust network on Oct. 2. Cloudflare, meanwhile, published a somewhat critical blog post titled, "How Cloudflare mitigated yet another Okta compromise." The security vendor said it discovered and mitigated an attack on its systems on Oct. 18, "more than 24 hours before we were notified of the breach by Okta."
– Affected customers include 1Password and BeyondTrust, both of whom caught the attacks earlier… but there are very possibly others. Microsoft’s Merrill Fernando posted a good explanation of the issues surrounding token theft from HAR files, and he gives some practical advice on how to minimize the risk that this attack will be used against you. It is well worth reading.
– While those attacks directly targeted Okta customers for the initial point of intrusion, a more recent string of attacks against Okta customer environments occurred when a threat actor used a stolen Okta support system administrator credential to access authentication tokens for customers, including BeyondTrust, Cloudflare and 1Password.
– There is, however, no proven link to suggest it had anything to do with still-developing series of attacks on other cyber security firms that were customers of Okta – these attacks on 1Password, BeyondTrust and Cloudflare has not been attributed to any specific threat actor at the time of writing.
– In general, Okta recommends sanitizing all credentials and cookies/session tokens within an HAR file before sharing it. In a separate alert, security firm BeyondTrust said it was a target of a cyberattack linked to this Okta support system breach.
– Security company BeyondTrust had also been affected by the cyberattack on Okta. A hacker had tried to use authentication cookies to access the company's Okta account. BeyondTrust's account policies prevented the attack. Now, 1Password has been the second known Okta customer to be affected, along with BeyondTrust.
– BeyondTrust has announced the appointment of Chris Puleston to lead its Public Sector business in Australia. Based in Canberra, Chris will be responsible for accelerating business growth among Federal and State public sector agencies while supporting their capacity to proactively protect their identities and safeguard critical assets in today’s evolving threat landscape.
– Okta Security identified adversarial activity that leveraged access to a stolen credential to access Okta’s support case management system. Okta was first notified on October 2, 2023 by BeyondTrust, but the attacker still had access to their support systems at least until October 18, 2023
– The first set of defenses should include strong hardware authentication for privileged accounts and operate from a trusted system. In the cases documented by BeyondTrust and Cloudflare, they used FIDO2 hardware tokens that allowed security teams to rule out any potential compromise of credentials.
– “It is important that Okta customers improve their security policies by leveraging certain settings, for example, by prompting users with administrative privileges to authenticate with MFA at every login,” said l BeyondTrust security team in a newsletter. “Even if the attacker has hijacked an existing session, Okta still considers accessing the dashboard a new logon and requests permission to open an MFA session.
– BeyondTrust revealed that it initially detected and reported the breach to Okta on October 2, although its CTO Marc Maiffret stressed that it took time to convince Okta that it was behind the breach. Cloudflare also released a statement on Friday confirming that it detected an Okta-related attack on October 18.
– We do not yet know if the staff in question uses multi-factor identification, which would be the least possible given the type of data processed. BeyondTrust, a security company, said it notified Okta at the first sign of suspicious activity, only receiving a response two weeks later.
– Moreover, as of October 2, 2023, the BeyondTrust team detected and blocked an attempt to log in to an Okta Administrator account using a session cookie stolen from Okta's Help Desk solution. It was from that moment that Okta began to carry out investigations... before making this security incident official on October 19, 2023.
– According to Arstechnica, the initial hack was stopped by security firm BeyondTrust, which alerted Okta to suspicious activity about a month ago. However, due to some flaws in Okta's security model, some actions were still carried out by malicious actors.
– The first set of defenses should include strong hardware authentication for privileged accounts and operate from a trusted system. In the cases documented by BeyondTrust and Cloudflare, they used FIDO2 hardware tokens that allowed security teams to rule out any potential compromise of credentials.
– The incident began when BeyondTrust security teams detected an attacker attempting to access an internal Okta administrator account using a valid session cookie stolen from Okta's support system. Custom policy controls blocked the attacker's initial activity. However, the limitations of Okta's security model allowed it to perform some actions. BeyondTrust's Identity Security Insights tool alerted teams, who were able to block all access and verify that this attacker did not have access to any systems.
– So on October 2, BeyondTrust raised concerns about a breach with Okta. It was not until October 19 that Okta security officials confirmed that they had suffered a breach and that BeyondTrust was one of the affected customers. However, BeyondTrust did not wait to ensure that it protected its customers who were not in fact exposed.
– To make matters worse, BeyondTrust, one of Okta's customers, claims to have detected and blocked an attempt to log in to an internal Okta administrator account on October 2 using a stolen cookie. The privileged access specialist immediately informed Okta that its support organization was compromised, but it took the vendor more than two weeks to confirm the breach.
– Cybersecurity experts at BeyondTrust were the first to spot the problem after one of its customers reported strange behavior on their network, following brief communication with Okta.
– Identity service provider Okta reports another attack on its databases. Hackers are said to have gained access to sensitive customer data via the support department. This is not the first incident. In 2022, the Californian company recorded a data theft, after hackers hacked a tool of their customer support. This August, the service provider reported social engineering attacks on its IT service desk employees. Okta customer BeyondTrust had already alerted the service provider to the cyberattack on October 2.
– Identity service provider Okta reports another attack on its databases. Hackers are said to have gained access to sensitive customer data via the support department. This is not the first incident. In 2022, the Californian company recorded a data theft, after hackers hacked a tool of their customer support. This August, the service provider reported social engineering attacks on its IT service desk employees. Okta customer BeyondTrust had already alerted the service provider to the cyberattack on October 2.
– Identity security company BeyondTrust’s blog post says that on October 2, it detected an unauthorized attempt to access a high-privilege Okta account using a stolen session cookie from a recently uploaded HAR file.
– Security firm BeyondTrust on Oct. 19 flagged that it was affected by the broader Okta breach, making 1Password the second known company to have been impacted. BeyondTrust had notably warned Okta some two weeks ahead of its disclosure, Krebs on Security reported Friday.
– Morey Haber, Chief Security Officer at BeyondTrust, explains the importance of having clear visibility into infrastructure and risk, considering the fact that as a security company themselves, they are a prime target for threat actors.
– According to BeyondTrust's assessment, the hack occurred as early as October 2. The threat actors managed to breach Okta systems and obtain clients' information through stolen credentials. Okta confirmed the incident last week stating that there was a compromise on sensitive customer data.
– Once again, hackers managed to gain access to Okta's customer service system using stolen credentials. This allowed them to access sensitive data uploaded by Okta customers. Back in early October, a hacker at Okta customer BeyondTrust attempted to access an internal Okta administrator account using a valid session cookie copied from Okta's support system. The hacker was only able to perform a limited number of actions.
– Once again, hackers managed to gain access to Okta's customer service system using stolen credentials. This allowed them to access sensitive data uploaded by Okta customers. Back in early October, a hacker at Okta customer BeyondTrust attempted to access an internal Okta administrator account using a valid session cookie copied from Okta's support system. The hacker was only able to perform a limited number of actions.
– "The current wave of cyberattacks is largely based on the misuse of privileged access rights and identities which threat actors use to compromise business IT systems or steal sensitive information," said Mohamed Ibbich, Director of Solutions Engineering at BeyondTrust.
– 1Password, BeyondTrust, and Cloudflare all said that they were able to detect and block the intrusions before any of their own customers were affected, but they all highlighted the fact that they had notified Okta about the situation before Okta warned them—in some cases weeks before Okta's public disclosure.
– Concern at IAM vendor Okta's response mounts as BeyondTrust details concerns, Cloudflare calls for customers to press harder on "further information regarding potential impact to your organization"
– “On October 2nd, 2023, the BeyondTrust security teams detected an identity-centric attack on an in-house Okta administrator account. We immediately detected and remediated the attack through our own Identity Security tools, resulting in no impact or exposure to BeyondTrust’s infrastructure or to our customers. The incident was the result of Okta’s support system being compromised which allowed an attacker to access sensitive files uploaded by their customers,” BeyondTrust wrote.
– “We raised our concerns of a breach to Okta on October 2nd,” BeyondTrust blogged. “Having received no acknowledgement from Okta of a possible breach, we persisted with escalations within Okta until October 19th when Okta security leadership notified us that they had indeed experienced a breach and we were one of their affected customers.”
– First, BeyondTrust revealed that it initially detected and reported the breach to Okta on Oct. 2, though its CTO Marc Maiffret emphasized that it took time to convince Okta it was the source. Cloudflare also issued a disclosure on Friday that confirmed that it detected an Okta-related attack on Oct. 18.
– “We then detected and remediated the attack through our own identity security tools, which resulted in no impact or exposure to our infrastructure or to any customers,” said the BeyondTrust researchers.
– 1Password, Okta Suffer Cyberattacks: The spillover from a cyberattack against Okta’s support system is growing as more victims come forward. 1Password on October 23 said it was also impacted by the Okta support system breach, which led to an intrusion of its Okta environment, making it the third security-oriented victim to come forward after BeyondTrust and Cloudflare.
– BeyondTrust alerted Okta to the suspicious activity after discovering an attacker using a valid authentication cookie attempting to access one of its in-house Okta administrator accounts earlier in October.
– BeyondTrust, in particular, has been outspoken in its criticism, lamenting a slow response to the problem from Okta and claiming the supplier had been reluctant to take responsibility.
– BeyondTrust reported the compromise to Okta which didn’t acknowledge the breach for over two weeks. The long and inexcusable delay was made public by BeyondTrust, and ended up in the news.
– In this byline opinion article, Scott Hesford discusses that given the focus of the CPS 234 guidance, PAM can assist organisations to gain significant coverage across the information security items targeted for uplift. In many cases, PAM can provide specific controls, while in others, it can work hand-in-hand with other technology to provide the desired outcome.
– As revealed now, 1Password has been affected by a recent cyberattack on the identity service provider Okta. Recently, cybercriminals managed to steal Okta's access tokens. It's not yet clear which other customers are affected: The service provider said it was a very small proportion of its more than 18,000 customers. However, the U.S. company BeyondTrust had reported a corresponding attack earlier this month.
– Identity service provider Okta reports another attack on its databases. Hackers are said to have gained access to sensitive customer data via the support department. This is not the first incident. In 2022, the Californian company recorded a data theft, after hackers hacked a tool of their customer support. This August, the service provider reported social engineering attacks on its IT service desk employees. Okta customer BeyondTrust had already alerted the service provider to the cyberattack on October 2.
– The company told The Hacker News that the event impacted about 1 percent of its customer base. Some of the other customers who have been affected by the incident include BeyondTrust and Cloudflare.
– In a separate statement, privately held identity management firm BeyondTrust revealed that its security teams detected an identity-centric attack on an in-house Okta administrator account on October 2, 2023.
– Cybersecurity experts from BeyondTrust were the first to spot the issue after one of its customers reported strange behavior on its network, following a short communication with Okta.
– Security company BeyondTrust said it was also affected by Okta’s breach, but that it also quickly shut down its intrusion. In a blog post, BeyondTrust said it notified Okta of the incident on October 2, but accused Okta of not acknowledging the breach for almost three weeks
– More notably, the disclosures confirmed that Okta did not initially detect the breach. In a blog post Friday, BeyondTrust said it first detected threat activity earlier this month and alerted Okta, though it was met with a slow response. BeyondTrust added that it detected and remediated the attack with no effect on customers.
– Both 1Password and Cloudflare also detected the breach before Okta notified them about a potential intrusion — which isn’t a great look for the single sign-on provider. Cloudflare is also implying Okta failed to take initial reports about the breach seriously. The company’s blog post urges Okta to “take any report of compromise seriously and act immediately to limit damage,” noting that a separate security vendor, BeyondTrust, had notified the company about the breach as early as Oct. 2.
– If the 1Password incident is a consequence of the same Okta breach, this puts the Okta breach which was discovered by BeyondTrust on October 2, 2023 in a new light as regards to the timeline. BeyondTrust says it had to persist with escalations within Okta until October 19, when Okta security leadership notified BeyondTrust that it had indeed experienced a breach and that BeyondTrust were one of the affected customers.
– The breach was initially detected by security firm BeyondTrust, which observed suspicious activity on its in-house Okta administrator account. BeyondTrust alerted Okta but claimed they received no response for over two weeks. Okta has faced multiple security incidents in the past, including breaches in March and December 2022.
– “On October 2nd, 2023, the BeyondTrust security teams detected an identity-centric attack on an in-house Okta administrator account,” said Marc Maiffret, CTO at BeyondTrust.
– Security vendor BeyondTrust encountered the issue when it found an attacker attempting to use a stolen session cookie to breach an admin account. BeyondTrust fixed the issue on its own and claimed it contacted Okta on October 2, but said that it didn’t receive acknowledgement of a breach until October 19, when Okta confirmed BeyondTrust was an affected customer.
– "While there was no exposure to BeyondTrust or our customers, we are sharing details of the attack to educate other Okta users and infosec professionals," Maiffret said in a blog post.
– The password manager, which has more than 100,000 business customers, detected suspicious activity on its Okta instance on Sept. 29. BeyondTrust discovered a similar intrusion on its Okta environment and alerted Okta to the breach on Oct. 2.
– In a statement provided to CRN, Husnain Bajwa, vice president of product strategy at Beyond Identity, said that Okta “took nearly three weeks to acknowledge and remediate the situation despite immediate notifications from two respected and security-conscious customers.” That decision “reflects a troubling pattern of concerning lapses in Okta’s commitment to safeguarding its users,” Bajwa said in the statement.
– BeyondTrust said it detected an identity-centric attack on an in-house Okta admin account on 2 October 2023, which used a valid session cookie stolen from Okta. It said that its own systems were able to cut the attacker off before there was any impact, but added that its supplier’s response had not been on the ball.
– BeyondTrust, another identity management company, said in a post Friday that it first alerted Okta to suspicious activity targeting an Okta administrator on Oct. 2.
– Identity and access protection company BeyondTrust is one of the affected customers. In early October 2023, the security team noticed and reported an attack attempt using a valid session cookie copied from Okta's support system and targeting an internal Okta administrator account. According to the report, while the attacker's activities were initially blocked by internal policies, limitations in Okta's security model allowed him to take limited actions.
– BeyondTrust’s policy in the Okta environment was to only allow access to the Okta admin console from managed devices on which had been installed Okta Verify, a multifactor authentication application developed by Okta. Because of this policy, the attacker was prompted for MFA authentication when they tried to access the admin console, even though the token they stole provided them with a valid session.
– The reference was to a post Friday in which cybersecurity vendor BeyondTrust said it discovered the breach, was among the impacted customers and notified Okta on Oct. 2 about the incident. However, Okta did not acknowledge the breach for more than two weeks, according to BeyondTrust.
– Okta first learned of the breach from BeyondTrust, who shared forensics data with Okta, showing that their support organization was compromised. However, it took Okta over two weeks to confirm the breach.
– Security firm BeyondTrust said it discovered the intrusion after an attacker used valid authentication cookies in an attempt to access its Okta account. The attacker could perform “a few confined actions,” but ultimately, BeyondTrust access policy controls stopped the activity and blocked all access to the account. 1Password now becomes the second known Okta customer to be targeted in a follow-on attack.
– Okta’s shares fell 11.5% after they reported that someone got into their support system using stolen credentials and accessed client files that included valid Okta session tokens. Customer BeyondTrust said they saw the attack happen on October 2nd when someone tried to use a token to create a super-admin account.
– As per BeyondTrust’s CTO Mark Maiffret, the attacker used a session token from the uploaded browser recording session and created a new admin account. The attack “was the result of Okta’s support system being compromised which allowed an attacker to access sensitive files uploaded by their customers.”
– BeyondTrust assessed the hack to have occurred as early as October 2, 2023. “The initial incident response indicated a possible compromise at Okta of either someone on their support team or someone in position to access customer support-related data,” BeyondTrust noted.
– According to Arstechnica, the initial hack was stopped by security firm BeyondTrust, which alerted Okta to suspicious activity about a month ago. However, due to some flaws within Okta's security model, some actions were still carried out by malicious actors.
– “We are most concerned with the fact that Okta was unaware of the breach and did not have the internal capabilities to detect this behavior,” Nowinski wrote. “They were notified of the potential breach by a customer (Beyond Trust) and still took approximately two weeks to make a public disclosure.”
– Identity management firm BeyondTrust has stated that it experienced an identity-centric attack on October 2, which arose from an in-house Okta administrator account. It notified Okta immediately following the breach, and subsequently engaged in dialog with Okta to provide evidence that Okta had been compromised.
– “Having received no acknowledgement from Okta of a possible breach, we persisted with escalations within Okta until October 19 when Okta security leadership notified us that they had indeed experienced a breach and we were one of their affected customers,” explained BeyondTrust CTO, Marc Maiffret.
– "Modern identity-based attacks can be complex, and as this attack shows, can originate from environments outside your own," BeyondTrust Chief Technology Officer Marc Maiffret wrote in a blog post Friday. "Defense in depth is important though. The failure of a single control or process should not result in a breach."
– “BeyondTrust’s custom policies around admin console access initially blocked them, but they pivoted to using admin API actions authenticated with the stolen session cookie,” according to BeyondTrust. “API actions cannot be protected by policies in the same way as actual admin console access. Using the API, they created a backdoor user account using a naming convention like existing service accounts.”
– The gap between BeyondTrust’s discovery of an attacker trying to access an in-house Okta administrator account and Okta’s confirmation and disclosure suggests the threat actor had access to Okta’s support system for more than two weeks.
– BeyondTrust, which alerted Okta to the suspicious activity, discovered an attacker using a valid authentication cookie attempting to access one of its in-house Okta administrator accounts earlier in October.
– In a separate post Friday, privately held identity management firm BeyondTrust, said that it had told Okta's security teams about suspicious activity in BeyondTrust's own Okta systems on October 2. Okta didn't initially acknowledge the incident as a breach after BeyondTrust alerted the company, despite what BeyondTrust described as concerns that "there was a high likelihood of compromise within Okta support and that we were likely not the only customer impacted."
– Okta has of course taken measures to protect its customers, including the revocation of embedded session tokens. In general, Okta recommends sanitizing all credentials and cookies/session tokens within an HAR file before sharing it. In a separate alert, security firm BeyondTrust said it was a target of a cyberattack linked to this Okta support system breach.
– Okta executives have spent several days now trying to get a handle on a breach detected October 2 by a corporate customer. That customer, Beyond Trust, informed Okta after Beyond Trust staff traced it back to Okta.
– One of the Okta customers notified, BeyondTrust, told KrebsOnSecurity that they had notified Okta about activity likely related to the support breach on October 2, when they noticed someone trying to use an Okta account belonging to a BeyondTrust employee to create a new admin account in the Okta environment.
– Where the story gets interesting is that one of the affected customers, BeyondTrust Corp., has come forward and disclosed its experience, and it’s not a good look for Okta. The company said that it had detected an identity-centric attack on an in-house Okta administrator account on Oct. 2, but after alerting Okta the same day and then following up, it had no response for over a week.
– "BeyondTrust immediately detected and remediated the attack through its own identity tools, Identity Security Insights, resulting in no impact or exposure to BeyondTrust's infrastructure or to its customers," a spokesperson for the company told The Hacker News.
– Take any report of compromise seriously and act immediately to limit damage; in this case Okta was first notified on October 2, 2023 by BeyondTrust but the attacker still had access to their support systems at least until October 18, 2023.
– David Bradbury, Okta’s chief security officer, disclosed the breach in a blog. BeyondTrust says it discovered the attack early this month. It said the incident was the result of Okta’s support system being compromised, which allowed an attacker to access sensitive files uploaded by its customers.
– BeyondTrust security teams on Oct. 2 saw an attacker trying to access an in-house Okta administrator account using a valid session cookie stolen from Okta's support system, according to Maiffret. The initial incident response indicated a possible compromise at Okta - by either someone on the support team or someone in a position to access customer support-related data. That prompted BeyondTrustto contact Okta.
– Security firm BeyondTrust said it alerted Okta to suspicious activity earlier this month after detecting an attacker using a valid authentication cookie trying to access one of BeyondTrust’s in-house Okta administrator accounts.
– A spokesperson for the security company BeyondTrust contacted Recorded Future News to say they discovered the attack on October 2 when they detected an incident involving an in-house Okta administrator account.
– Security firm BeyondTrust, which uses Okta, said in its own blog post that it notified Okta of a potential breach on October 2 after it detected an attempted compromise to its network a short time after an administrator shared a browser recording session with an Okta support agent.
– Security firm BeyondTrust was among those that received the alert. BeyondTrust Chief Technology Officer Marc Maiffret said the alert came more than two weeks after his company alerted Okta to a potential problem. Maiffret said none of its customers were affected, according to KrebsonSecurity, which first reported the news.
– “The incident began when BeyondTrust security teams detected an attacker trying to access an in-house Okta administrator account using a valid session cookie stolen from Okta’s support system. Custom policy controls blocked the attacker’s initial activity, but limitations in Okta’s security model allowed them to perform a few confined actions,” BeyondTrust said.
– Okta declined to provide more details. But according to security journalist Brian Krebs, the company appears to have uncovered the breach when a customer, security vendor BeyondTrust, noticed unusual activity on its network. An Okta account belonging to a BeyondTrust engineer tried to create a powerful admin account.
– Maiffret emphasized that BeyondTrust caught the attack earlier this month as it was happening, and that none of its own customers were affected. He said that on Oct 2., BeyondTrust’s security team detected that someone was trying to use an Okta account assigned to one of their engineers to create an all-powerful administrator account within their Okta environment.
– The company said in a post that it informed Okta about the incident on Oct. 2, but “having received no acknowledgement from Okta of a possible breach, we persisted with escalations within Okta.” Then on Oct. 19, “Okta security leadership notified us that they had indeed experienced a breach and we were one of their affected customers,” BeyondTrust said.
– A customer, cybersecurity vendor BeyondTrust, said that it ‘raised our concerns of a breach to Okta’ in early October, but the breach was only acknowledged by Okta on Friday.
– Marc Maiffret, BeyondTrust’s chief technology officer, told Bloomberg News it seemed to have taken Okta a bit of time to realize it had a breach despite his efforts to encourage the company to escalate his concerns. He said he was “extra feisty” during a Oct. 11 call with Okta, saying he pushed it to look into the claims.
– BeyondTrust says the attack was thwarted by "custom policy controls," but due to "limitations in Okta's security model," the malicious actor was able to perform "a few confined actions."
– In this article, James Maude outlines that defending against sophisticated nation state threat actors such as Mango Sandstorm can feel like a daunting task. This is particularly the case when the infrastructure comprises a hybrid mix of on-prem and cloud resources which may span multiple teams in your organisation.
– “As a primary threat to critical infrastructure, consider logic bombs. A logic bomb is a piece of malware that disrupts industrial control systems by placing false logic into the workflow to confuse systems and cause disruption – Morey Haber, Chief Security Officer at BeyondTrust”
– “PAM must offer the means to automate discovery of privileged accounts and other credential types across the environment. There must be no place for an identity to hide because if there is, you can be sure it will not escape the notice of a determined threat actor. Human and non-human accounts must be placed under suitable management so they can pass muster with auditors. Many attacker inroads are rendered impassable with this simple approach and many others are made difficult. And to be clear, when we say ‘suitable management’, what we mean is the enforcement of regular password changes and rules as to their strength.”
– Is your organization undergoing an identity crisis? Whether you believe it or not, it probably is. While you may not appreciate the simple play with words to describe the actual problem, you made it to the third sentence.
– Identity and access specialist has added a feature called Workforce Passwords to BeyondTrust Password Safe. Worksafe Passwords is said to provide enterprise-level workforce password management by enabling business application passwords to be managed with the same scrutiny and security that is used for privileged accounts. Managing business application passwords helps ensure that users do not adopt risky password practices such as password reuse and password sharing, as well as providing control over access to applications.
– BeyondTrust has announced Workforce Passwords, a new capability built into BeyondTrust Password Safe, designed to securely store and manage business application passwords. Available with the Password Safe 23.2 release, Workforce Passwords delivers enterprise-level workforce password management by giving customers the ability to manage business application passwords with the same scrutiny and security previously reserved for privileged accounts.
– BeyondTrust has announced Workforce Passwords, a new capability built into BeyondTrust Password Safe, designed to securely store and manage business application passwords. Available with the Password Safe 23.2 release, Workforce Passwords delivers enterprise-level workforce password management by giving customers the ability to manage business application passwords with the same scrutiny and security previously reserved for privileged accounts.
– Identity and access specialist has added a feature called Workforce Passwords to BeyondTrust Password Safe. Worksafe Passwords is said to provide enterprise-level workforce password management by enabling business application passwords to be managed with the same scrutiny and security that is used for privileged accounts.
– “If the products being manufactured have any software components or entirely comprised of software, vulnerabilities identified in the product can potentially be exploited to not only compromise the company, but any company using the software. This represents a massive risk surface and anyone with the software deployed could be susceptible to a breach,” says Morey Haber, CSO at BeyondTrust”
– Seasoned security expert Josh Brodbent leads BeyondTrust's public sector security initiatives, safeguarding critical systems and data for government organizations.
– BeyondTrust has brought new technology to market around cloud infrastructure to provide remote users with access to cloud resources using their laptop through a granular, narrow tunnel, said CTO Marc Maiffret. Given the number of organizations using cloud-native resources housed in AWS or Azure, Maiffret said it's essential to provide secure access into the public cloud providers in a granular manner.
– At the core of this partnership is integrating BeyondTrust's Privilege Management for Mac with Jamf's new Jamf Cloud Distribution Point (JCDS), including an official API endpoint for uploading packages.
– BeyondTrust has announced its integration with Jamf to enhance Mac endpoint security. This collaboration marks a significant step towards strengthening global Mac endpoint security for organisations. At the core of this partnership is integrating BeyondTrust's Privilege Management for Mac with Jamf's new Jamf Cloud Distribution Point (JCDS), including an official API endpoint for uploading packages.
– BeyondTrust has announced an integration with Apple management specialist Jamf's platform. The integration of BeyondTrust's Privilege Management for Mac with Jamf's new Jamf Cloud Distribution Point (JCDS) includes an official API endpoint for uploading packages.
– BeyondTrust Employees say: “Very transparent and open with plenty of time for questions to management, including a completely unscripted companywide meeting called ‘Leadership Live,’ where all questions are welcome. Personal story discussions where people share what it is like to be them, such as being Muslim in the U.K. or Black in America. Lots of development
– BeyondTrust has announced the company has achieved ISO 27001:2022 certification. As one of the first in our industry to obtain ISO 27001:2022 certification, BeyondTrust demonstrates its commitment to preserving the security and confidentiality of sensitive information and customer data.
– In the “Ability to Execute” category, BeyondTrust achieved the highest rating in the field of participants. This is the fifth year in a row that the provider of intelligent identity and access protection has been positioned as a "Leader".
– “Password-less authentication is provided based on a unique characteristic owned by the identity or asset and can be verified to be unique per request or session. This can be implemented using biometric technology or passkeys that are securely stored or rotated via an encryption key that can only be decoded by the system when access is requested. The most common implementation model for this type of solution is FIDO2 and provides a secure workflow for authentication using a variety of trusted identity verification methods,” said Morey Haber, Chief Security Officer at BeyondTrust.
– BeyondTrust, the specialists in intelligent identity and access security, have announced the company has achieved ISO 27001:2022 certification. The ISO 27001 standard applies a holistic management system approach to information security to address governance, organisation roles and responsibilities, processes, and technology to meet the businesss information security risk management objectives.
– BeyondTrust, the specialists in intelligent identity and access security, have announced the company has achieved ISO 27001:2022 certification. The ISO 27001 standard applies a holistic management system approach to information security to address governance, organisation roles and responsibilities, processes, and technology to meet the businesss information security risk management objectives.
– BeyondTrust, the worldwide leader in intelligent identity and access security, today announced the company has achieved ISO 27001:2022 certification. The ISO 27001 standard applies a holistic management system approach to information security to address governance, organization roles and responsibilities, processes, and technology to meet the business’s information security risk management objectives.
– BeyondTrust says it has achieved ISO 27001:2022 certification. “BeyondTrust’s ISO 27001:2022 certification reaffirms our dedication to prioritising customer data security,” said Justin Sparks, Director, IT Governance, Risk & Compliance at BeyondTrust. “This achievement highlights our commitment to providing customers with the utmost protection against cyber threats and unauthorised access, ensuring their peace of mind and confidence in our products and services.”
– Paul McKersey has been shortlisted as a finalist in the Australian Reseller News Innovation Awards in the Personal Innovation category for Vendor Channel Excellence. Personal Innovation recognises standout individuals who contribute to customer, company and channel success through a transformative approach to management, channel, sales, technical and marketing positions. The award winners will be announced at a gala dinner in Sydney on 16 November.
– BeyondTrust, the specialists in intelligent identity and access security, have announced the company has achieved ISO 27001:2022 certification. The ISO 27001 standard applies a holistic management system approach to information security to address governance, organisation roles and responsibilities, processes, and technology to meet the businesss information security risk management objectives.
– BeyondTrust, the specialists in intelligent identity and access security, have announced the company has achieved ISO 27001:2022 certification. The ISO 27001 standard applies a holistic management system approach to information security to address governance, organisation roles and responsibilities, processes, and technology to meet the businesss information security risk management objectives.
– BeyondTrust, the worldwide leader in intelligent identity and access security, today announced the company has achieved ISO 27001:2022 certification.
– The 2023 ISG Provider Lens Cybersecurity Solutions and Services report for Australia evaluates the capabilities of 82 providers across six quadrants: identity and access management (IAM), extended detection and response (XDR), security service edge (SSE), technical security services, strategic security services, and managed security services (SOC). The report names BeyondTrust, HPE (Aruba), Macquarie Telecom Group and SentinelOne are named as rising stars in one quadrant each.
– More than half of security breaches today are linked to identity issues stemming from low visibility. BeyondTrustIdentity Security Insights dials up the clarity by giving IT teams visibility into all trouble spots around identity and access, and help adopt a steely and unified management posture. This is not just better cyber hygiene. It is enforcement of the core tenet of zero-trust – a least-privilege model.
– Yet different identity management policies and tools should be implemented according to the size of the organization. “As an employee joins the company, changes roles, or leaves the organization, the small business should ensure their accounts are created, modified, and deleted in a timely fashion in addition to any rights, permissions, and privileges that might be assigned. For a large organization, this simple process and security best practices can be incredibly labor intensive and prone to error. This is where Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solutions come into play, and Identity Security solutions identify the risks and threats that arise from employee activity and potential misconfigurations,” Haber said.
– BeyondTrust has announced it has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management, with BeyondTrust positioned as the highest in Ability to Execute. This is the fifth year in a row BeyondTrust has been recognised as a Leader.
– BeyondTrust has announced it has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management, with BeyondTrust positioned as the highest in Ability to Execute. This is the fifth year in a row BeyondTrust has been recognised as a Leader.
– BeyondTrust, the expert in intelligent identity and access security, has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management. In its fifth year of being recognised as a leader, BeyondTrust was celebrated as the highest in 'Ability to Execute.'
– BeyondTrust, the expert in intelligent identity and access security, has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management. In its fifth year of being recognised as a leader, BeyondTrust was celebrated as the highest in 'Ability to Execute.'
– BeyondTrust, the expert in intelligent identity and access security, has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management. In its fifth year of being recognised as a leader, BeyondTrust was celebrated as the highest in 'Ability to Execute.'
– BeyondTrust, the worldwide leader in intelligent identity and access security, today announced it has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management, with BeyondTrust positioned as the highest in Ability to Execute. This is the fifth year in a row BeyondTrust has been recognised as a Leader.
– BeyondTrust, the worldwide leader in intelligent identity and access security, has been positioned in the leaders quadrant in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management, with BeyondTrust positioned as the highest in ability to execute. This is the fifth year in a row BeyondTrust has been recognised as a leader.
– A Dimensional Research study, conducted on behalf of BeyondTrust, found that 63% of companies reported having identity issues in the last 18 months that were directly related to privileged users or credentials.
– At some point in time, legacy components, software and aging assets and resources will no longer meet modern business demands and information security requirements. After a period as short as seven years, many components can be designated as end-of-life and be queued for replacement or modernization. In fact, most endpoint hardware does not even last that long.
– “James Maude, Lead Security Researcher at BeyondTrust, says generative AI such as ChatGPT is proving useful in a number of ways. Being able to analyse and summarise large amounts of data in a concise and human readable manner could be very helpful in increasing productivity and security. There is also the potential to help script and automate responses and generate code, however a word of caution here as the use of AI assistants has been shown to reduce code quality and security among developers.”
– In this profile article, Christopher Hills talks about his background, responsibilities, strategy, achievements, focus on cyber insurance, and personal approach to work and customer relationships.
– In this profile article, Christopher Hills talks about his background, responsibilities, strategy, achievements, focus on cyber insurance, and personal approach to work and customer relationships.
– In this profile article, Christopher Hills talks about his background, responsibilities, strategy, achievements, focus on cyber insurance, and personal approach to work and customer relationships.
– In this profile article, Christopher Hills talks about his background, responsibilities, strategy, achievements, focus on cyber insurance, and personal approach to work and customer relationships.
– Morey Haber says he sleeps like a baby. That is, he’s up every couple of hours. It’s a touch of cybersecurity humor if there is such a thing. Haber is the chief security officer at BeyondTrust, an identity security firm with clients around the world, and in his line of work, he’s seen some nightmares—and HR needs to be aware of them.
– In this opinion article, Scott Hesford says that weak and unsecured accounts are just one of the many entry points cyber attackers can use to gain access to a network. However, by integrating PAM effectively, organisations can stay ahead of the ever-evolving threat landscape while also preserving employees' work capabilities.
– Exploitation of software vulnerabilities by cyber adversaries has dominated headlines the last couple of months (e.g., Ivanti EPMM flaw, Points.com, BeyondTrust, PaperCut NG/MF, Microsoft Power Platform), creating the perception that these are the primary causes of many of today’s data breaches.
– Alex Leemon: BeyondTrust fights every day to secure identities, intelligently remediate threats, and deliver dynamic access to empower and protect organizations around the world. As the leader in Intelligent Identity and Access Security, our vision is a world where all identities and access are protected from cyber threats.
– Layale Hachem, senior solutions engineer at BeyondTrust explains how businesses can defend against IABs by enforcing least privilege, enhancing multi-factor authentication, redefining remote access, and eliminating dormant accounts.
– Identity Security Insights represents a notable addition to the BeyondTrust platform, providing an advanced intelligence layer that allows organisations to achieve new levels of identity and access security.
– Identity Security Insights represents a notable addition to the BeyondTrust platform, providing an advanced intelligence layer that allows organisations to achieve new levels of identity and access security.
– Identity Security Insights represents a notable addition to the BeyondTrust platform, providing an advanced intelligence layer that allows organisations to achieve new levels of identity and access security.
– Identity Security Insights represents a notable addition to the BeyondTrust platform, providing an advanced intelligence layer that allows organisations to achieve new levels of identity and access security.
– BeyondTrust has announced the general availability of its Identity Security Insights solution. With the escalating complexity of cyber threats targeting identities and credentials, this solution aims to set a new standard in securing both human and non-human identities and privileges, providing organisations with visibility and advanced identity-first threat detection capabilities.
– BeyondTrust has announced the general availability of its Identity Security Insights solution. With the escalating complexity of cyber threats targeting identities and credentials, this solution aims to set a new standard in securing both human and non-human identities and privileges, providing organisations with visibility and advanced identity-first threat detection capabilities.
– BeyondTrust has announced the general availability of its Identity Security Insights solution. With the escalating complexity of cyber threats targeting identities and credentials, this solution aims to set a new standard in securing both human and non-human identities and privileges, providing organisations with visibility and advanced identity-first threat detection capabilities.
– BeyondTrust has announced the general availability of its Identity Security Insights solution. With the escalating complexity of cyber threats targeting identities and credentials, this solution aims to set a new standard in securing both human and non-human identities and privileges, providing organisations with visibility and advanced identity-first threat detection capabilities.
– In managing the risks posed by cybercrime, Scott Hesford says that directors should consider the reasonableness test when assessing their planned level of action. He says, “This is important because risk reduction steps that would be deemed reasonable today are very different from what they were 10 years ago. Different companies within an industry may also have different risk appetites.”
– Separate your home and business networks: Separate your Wi-Fi network so company-approved devices will be separate. Even better, use a secure network and a company-issued Virtual Private Network (VPN) to access your business accounts. You can also use BeyondTrust for secure remote access. Home routers should always be updated to the current software version when it becomes available.
– In this byline opinion article, Scott Hesford discussed that in today’s IT world, the need for third-party remote access has increased as IT environments become more distributed, consist of more managed or third-party hosted services, and often require ongoing input from the various providers to troubleshoot issues or perform upgrades. As a result, the adoption of secure remote access technology is now much higher on strategic agendas.
– “ITDR is more of a discipline. By uniting the right technology capabilities and human skills, ITDR pinpoints the true threats, vastly reduces alert fatigue, and greatly increases an organization’s ability to fix critical security issues before they can be exploited. Traditional PAM delivered in combination with an identity-centric security model is the best approach to ITDR.”
– In this byline opinion article, Scott Hesford says that Australian organisations have to police privileged access to their environments to a greater extent than ever before.Third-party risk management (TPRM) is considered a strategic priority by 85 per cent of businesses, up from 77 per cent pre-pandemic, according to research by KPMG International.
– The article is a byline authored by Matthieu Jouzel about the identity management and security best practices. It highlights the key elements of an identity management and protection strategy.
– Recent research studies by security vendor BeyondTrust show that three out of four organizations have been impacted by an increasing number of cyber disruptions affecting their ICS/OT environments. In the electricity, oil, gas and manufacturing sectors, overall 89 percent of companies recorded serious cyber-attacks last year, disrupting production chains and energy supply.
– Securing the hardware and software systems in power plants, water treatment facilities, transportation systems and other critical infrastructure calls for network visibility, vulnerability assessment and holistic strategic and incident response plans.
– BeyondTrust, leader in intelligent identity and access security, has a new Regional Vice President CEE with Jens Brauer. In this role, he will be responsible for the strategic direction of the sales organization as well as the team of sales, marketing and technical experts in the DACH region.
– “When we unite IAM and PAM we bring back an element of control over the identity landscape, but to be cloud-ready means implementing new tools and working practices that can correlate all the signals received and discern actionable information from them. The security stack must include smart and integrated analytics capabilities for this purpose. What I have just described is identity threat detection and response.”
– BeyondTrust, leader in intelligent identity and access security, has released version 23.4 of Privilege Management for Windows and Mac. The enterprise solution supports the enforcement of least privilege and granular application control. The new release equips the Analytics v2 reporting and analysis tool with new functions that improve threat protection against unknown applications. To accelerate and simplify IT operations, this version also automates the onboarding process of endpoints.
– “To replace siloed tools, we turn to something that is really more of a methodology than a product. We call it identity-threat detection and response (ITDR). We combine security tools and processes to allow us to zero in on suspicious in-session activity and respond to attacks as they happen. ITDR is able to do this through a deeper understanding of permissions, configurations, and the relationships between accounts. And this deeper understanding comes from uniting best-in-class solutions already available in the market.”
– Securing OT systems can be a complex and challenging task that requires a multifaceted approach, taking years to mature. But the benefits of discovering assets on the network, assessing exposure and risk and developing a comprehensive security plan that includes technical, administrative as well as physical controls, are well worth the time and investment.
– BeyondTrust provides secure enterprise tools around password and endpoint management, as well as secure remote access to corporate devices. Remote Support features include remote control and screen sharing, unattended access, annotations, file sharing, and camera sharing for mobile devices.
– “Traditional security architectures and network perimeter defense mechanisms struggle to secure this new extended perimeter.” underlines Morey Haber, Chief Security Officer at BeyondTrust who engages in pro domo advocacy in favor of zero trust principles and architectures.
– BeyondTrust delivers its analysis on the subject of how cutting-edge cyber threats are designed to rush through breaches and take advantage of vulnerabilities before you even know what to beware of, such as drive-by downloads or wormhole attacks.
– BeyondTrust delivers here its analysis on the subject… Cutting-edge cyber threats are designed to rush through breaches and take advantage of vulnerabilities before you even know what to beware of, such as drive-by downloads or wormhole attacks.
– A recent survey conducted by BeyondTrust revealed an intriguing trend in the cybersecurity landscape: an astounding 90 per cent of Australian organisations have expressed their firm commitment to aligning their security programs with the Essential Eight.
– Zero trust is based on the notion of “never trust, always verify.” This means that state and local governments should not assume that any user, device or application is safe, even if they are inside the network perimeter.
– Ninety per cent of Australian organisations are planning to align their security programs to the Essential Eight, highlighting its momentum as fast becoming a de facto standard inclusion for cybersecurity strategies across the country. That’s according to a BeyondTrust survey conducted at last month’s AusCERT security conference by
– A survey conducted by BeyondTrust at last month’s AusCERT conference has found that ninety percent of Australian organisations plan to align their security programs to the Essential Eight. However, the challenges in aligning with the Essential Eight include application control (63 percent), user application hardening (51 percent), patching (49%), and restricting admin privileges (44 percent).
– “Adoption of ITDR should be undertaken carefully. Because it is more a practice than a product, integration plays a significant role in implementation. Investments can easily be squandered if stakeholders do not pay due attention to the fundamentals. Before any detection or response can take place, organizations must claim back visibility and control of the hardware and software that comprise their identity infrastructure. This visibility and control must also apply to accounts themselves. Security personnel must be able to see at a glance all current access so they can sift out overprivileged accounts.”
– “As an AI language model, ChatGPT has the potential to pose certain security risks, although it’s important to note that these threats are contingent on misuse, not the technology itself,” says Karl Lankford, Regional Vice President, Solutions Engineering, BeyondTrust.”
– “Every cloud asset needs at least one privileged account at some point in its lifecycle for creation, maintenance, and eventual decommissioning. Many of these privileged accounts are proliferating unseen, unmonitored, and unmanaged, presenting dangerous backdoors to the environment for threat actors. Therefore, asset management for identities and their associated accounts is a critical starting point for getting on top of this risk.”
– “By definition, an Insider Threat is an internal personal behaving as a threat actor. Regardless of the techniques they are using, they are not behaving in the best interest of the organization or government, potentially breaking the law, and exfiltrating information they do not have permission to possess,” says Morey Haber, Chief Security Officer, BeyondTrust.”
– “We did a major channel program revision in 2021, but that was about harmonizing the four existing channel programs that had come through M&As,” said Rob Spee, SVP Global Channel & Alliances at BeyondTrust. “I was asked to build a next generation modern partner ecosystem for the cloud SASE era, involving partners who can not only sell but who can land and expand. So we had to expand the program to include different partner types in one program and with one agreement.”
– “I truly believe many don’t realize that this type of technology exists for the manipulation of people, whether it be for good or bad, political gain or loss, or any other factors,” says Christopher Hills, Chief Security Strategist, BeyondTrust.
– The number of vulnerabilities in Microsoft systems is at a record high. This is the conclusion reached by BeyondTrust in its latest "Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report". The report is published in its tenth edition and breaks down Microsoft vulnerabilities by product and category. With a total of 1,292 vulnerabilities, this year's report has identified more vulnerabilities in Microsoft systems than ever before. For the third year in a row, elevated user privileges are among the highest security risks.
– The 2023 Microsoft Vulnerability Report by BeyondTrust, an identity and access security provider, shows that a total of 89 critical vulnerabilities were disclosed in 2022 alone. In the course of the year, a large number of security updates for Microsoft products were necessary.
– “Morey Haber, chief security officer at BeyondTrust, said all UAE businesses should exercise caution against cyberattacks and the current risks have fundamentally not changed in the last few years, however, the threats that target local organisations have increased from organised cyber criminals.”
– Using multiple solutions adds complexity to your zero-trust strategy Companies’ operating models today are significantly more complex than they were just a couple of years ago, according to BeyondTrust.
– The founder of the National Cybersecurity Education Center, Derek Smith, shared tips about passwords in a recent blog for BeyondTrust. This is the result of experiences gained in his extensive career in the military and government agencies. Here are some common techniques used to crack passwords.
– "Securing identities and access is critical to combatting today's cyberthreats. We continue to invest in innovation to enable visibility and control of all identities and access pathways, detect advanced identity threats, and automatically remediate gaps and adjust policies," says Marc Maiffret, Chief Technology Officer, BeyondTrust.
– "Securing identities and access is critical to combatting today's cyberthreats. We continue to invest in innovation to enable visibility and control of all identities and access pathways, detect advanced identity threats, and automatically remediate gaps and adjust policies," says Marc Maiffret, Chief Technology Officer, BeyondTrust.
– "Securing identities and access is critical to combatting today's cyberthreats. We continue to invest in innovation to enable visibility and control of all identities and access pathways, detect advanced identity threats, and automatically remediate gaps and adjust policies," says Marc Maiffret, Chief Technology Officer, BeyondTrust.
– BeyondTrust has delivered multiple product innovations through Q1 of 2023 to enhance its solutions and add advanced, customer-centric capabilities to its Identity & Access Security platform. The release includes: Streamlined Access Console, New SQL Database Proxy, Additional Cloud Automation API Scripts, and more.
– BeyondTrust has delivered multiple product innovations through Q1 of 2023 to enhance its solutions and add advanced, customer-centric capabilities to its Identity & Access Security platform. The release includes: Streamlined Access Console, New SQL Database Proxy, Additional Cloud Automation API Scripts, and more.
– BeyondTrust has delivered multiple product innovations through Q1 of 2023 to enhance its solutions and add advanced, customer-centric capabilities to its Identity & Access Security platform. The release includes: Streamlined Access Console, New SQL Database Proxy, Additional Cloud Automation API Scripts, and more.
– BeyondTrust has delivered multiple product innovations through Q1 of 2023 to enhance its solutions and add advanced, customer-centric capabilities to its Identity & Access Security platform.
– BeyondTrust has delivered multiple product innovations through Q1 of 2023 to enhance its solutions and add advanced, customer-centric capabilities to its Identity & Access Security platform. The release includes streamlined access console, new SQL database proxy, and additional cloud automation API scripts.
– BeyondTrust has delivered multiple product innovations through Q1 of 2023 to enhance its solutions and add advanced, customer-centric capabilities to its Identity & Access Security platform. The release includes streamlined access console, new SQL database proxy, and additional cloud automation API scripts.
– BeyondTrust has delivered multiple product innovations through Q1 of 2023 to enhance its solutions and add advanced, customer-centric capabilities to its Identity & Access Security platform. The release includes streamlined access console, new SQL database proxy, and additional cloud automation API scripts.
– BeyondTrust has delivered multiple product innovations through Q1 of 2023 to enhance its solutions and add advanced, customer-centric capabilities to its Identity & Access Security platform. The release includes streamlined access console, new SQL database proxy, and additional cloud automation API scripts.
– “There are four main reasons for wanting secrets management packaged with PASM. The first involves discovery and onboarding. If the two functions are part of one platform, visibility gaps are eliminated when trying to bring all the keys to the kingdom together. The second reason for unification is consistency when enforcing security policies. Separate platforms might see one rule for credentials normally managed by IT and another for those managed by security. Oversight of all privileged credentials should occur in a single pane, no matter who the designated overseer may be.”
– “Since Covid, we truly have a work-from-anywhere world, and the cloud is ideal for situations when passwords need to be available outside of the organization, across multiple geographical locations, and when on-premise technology is incapable or cost-prohibitive for meeting business objectives and minimizing risk. On Password Management Day, consider the risks of remembering, sharing, documenting, and reusing passwords. Security best practices today have better methods, including password services in the cloud, to minimize the need to remember passwords.
– With a total of 1,292 vulnerabilities, a security report has identified a significant number of vulnerabilities in Microsoft systems. The tenth edition of the security report published this year breaks down Microsoft's vulnerabilities by product and category. For the third time in a row, elevated user rights are among the highest security risks.
– In this article, Scott Hesford says that organisations need to understand that implementing zero trust is less of a destination and more of a never-ending journey as attackers are constantly finding new ways to attack the network. At the same time, organisations looking to maintain productivity and security need to start preparing for a future where user authentication transcends passwords.
– “Securing identities and access is critical to combating today’s cyberthreats. We continue to invest in innovation to enable visibility and control of all identities and access pathways, detect advanced identity threats, and automatically remediate gaps and adjust policies.”
– “Our brains are full of passwords and, often, we forget them, need to share them, and are forced to document them using unsecure methods like paper or spreadsheets. These insecure methods for sharing passwords have caused the press to report front page news articles on data breaches and compelled organizations to educate employees on the insecure methods for password storage and sharing. A better method to document passwords is needed that is highly secure, documents distributed access, and promotes sharing and collaboration with minimal risk—no matter where the access occurs.”
– BeyondTrust has unveiled Privileged Remote Access 23.1 bringing to market new Infrastructure Access Management functionality to enable developers, cloud ops engineers, and technical workers to securely and more easily access critical business resources.
– BeyondTrust released its latest Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report. The tenth edition of the annual security study breaks down Microsoft's vulnerabilities by product and category. For the third time in a row, excessive user privileges are among the highest security risks. With a total of 1,292 vulnerabilities, this year's report has identified more vulnerabilities in Microsoft systems than ever before.
– BeyondTrust announces that it has delivered multiple product innovations through Q1 of 2023 to enhance its solutions and add advanced, customer-centric capabilities to its Identity & Access Security platform.
– BeyondTrust announces that it has delivered multiple product innovations through Q1 of 2023 to enhance its solutions and add advanced, customer-centric capabilities to its Identity & Access Security platform.
– As the range of cloud services on offer grows, one might expect a corresponding increase in vulnerabilities - but for Microsoft, one cloud service experienced a disproportionately high number compared to others, writes James Maude in this opinion article.
– Shadow IT is the use of IT systems, devices, software, applications and services without the explicit approval of the company's IT department. It is usually not implemented with malicious intent.
– “Microsoft has a high volume of vulnerabilities that we have seen increase over the last 10 years of our research,” said James Maude, Lead Security Researcher at BeyondTrust. “This report outlines many of the risks, and highlights the importance of timely patching alongside the removal of excessive administrative rights to mitigate the risks.”
– It shows in particular that in 2022, the Microsoft universe reached its highest level in 10 years with a record figure of 1,292 vulnerabilities. But, even more than the number of vulnerabilities detected, it is the level of threat and the power of impact of each vulnerability that are of concern.
– “Microsoft has a high volume of vulnerabilities that we have seen increase over the last 10 years of our research,” said James Maude, Lead Security Researcher at BeyondTrust. “This report outlines many of the risks, and highlights the importance of timely patching alongside the removal of excessive administrative rights to mitigate the risks.”
– “Today’s business operating models are highly complex, with remote employees accessing critical systems using dozens, and even hundreds of applications,” said Morey Haber, Chief Security Officer at BeyondTrust.
– The concern is a cyber-theft tactic called “juice jacking.” Juice jacking is the exploitation of a device using a modified USB cable (dirty USB cable) and/or malware to compromise a device while it is charging. Since USB and Apple Lightning cables contain both power and data connections in the same cable and connector, the exploit leverages the data connections as the device attempts to synchronize data.
– Focusing on identity and access management, BeyondTrust, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, appointed Jens Brauer as its new Regional Vice President CEE. In this role, Brauer will be responsible for the strategic direction of the sales organization as well as the team of sales, marketing and technical experts in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Eastern Europe.
– A noteworthy feature of BeyondTrust Password Safe is its SSH key management subsystem. The developers have incorporated secure SSH session keys into the security loop alongside account passwords. This ensures that SSH keys are stored securely and updated automatically. SSH sessions are recorded and logged similarly to sessions using other protocols and can be monitored in real time. Licensing is based on assets, not user count, which further sets it apart.
– BeyondTrust has announced the release of a new global survey, Identity Issues Impact Zero Trust Effectiveness. The research found that almost all respondents had an identity-related incident in the last eighteen months, with 81% indicating two or more incidents. A significant number of these incidents were related to privileged accounts.
– BeyondTrust has announced the release of a new global survey, Identity Issues Impact Zero Trust Effectiveness. The research found that almost all respondents had an identity-related incident in the last eighteen months, with 81% indicating two or more incidents. A significant number of these incidents were related to privileged accounts.
– BeyondTrust has announced the release of a new global survey, Identity Issues Impact Zero Trust Effectiveness. The research found that almost all respondents had an identity-related incident in the last eighteen months, with 81% indicating two or more incidents. A significant number of these incidents were related to privileged accounts.
– BeyondTrust has announced the release of a new global survey, Identity Issues Impact Zero Trust Effectiveness. The report reviewed key findings from a research survey interviewing more than 300 participants across five continents and included security teams, IT professionals, and executives. Morey Haber, Chief Security Officer at BeyondTrust, comments, "Today's business operating models are highly complex, with remote employees accessing critical systems using dozens, and even hundreds of applications.
– BeyondTrust has announced the release of a new global survey, Identity Issues Impact Zero Trust Effectiveness. The report reviewed key findings from a research survey interviewing more than 300 participants across five continents and included security teams, IT professionals, and executives. Morey Haber, Chief Security Officer at BeyondTrust, comments, "Today's business operating models are highly complex, with remote employees accessing critical systems using dozens, and even hundreds of applications.
– BeyondTrust has announced the release of a new global survey, Identity Issues Impact Zero Trust Effectiveness. The report reviewed key findings from a research survey interviewing more than 300 participants across five continents and included security teams, IT professionals, and executives. Morey Haber, Chief Security Officer at BeyondTrust, comments, "Today's business operating models are highly complex, with remote employees accessing critical systems using dozens, and even hundreds of applications.
– The report reviewed key findings from a research survey interviewing more than 300 participants across five continents and included security teams, IT professionals, and executives. Morey Haber, Chief Security Officer at BeyondTrust, comments, "Today's business operating models are highly complex, with remote employees accessing critical systems using dozens, and even hundreds of applications.
– The report reviewed key findings from a research survey interviewing more than 300 participants across five continents and included security teams, IT professionals, and executives. Morey Haber, Chief Security Officer at BeyondTrust, comments, "Today's business operating models are highly complex, with remote employees accessing critical systems using dozens, and even hundreds of applications.
– BeyondTrust has announced the release of a new global survey, Identity Issues Impact Zero Trust Effectiveness. The survey's research focused on understanding current identity and zero trust trends, adoption rates, incidents, solutions, challenges, and new areas of focus. The research also investigated the integration requirements and techniques for zero trust solutions and how they interact with other key business applications and systems.
– BeyondTrust has announced the release of a new global survey, Identity Issues Impact Zero Trust Effectiveness. The survey's research focused on understanding current identity and zero trust trends, adoption rates, incidents, solutions, challenges, and new areas of focus. The research also investigated the integration requirements and techniques for zero trust solutions and how they interact with other key business applications and systems. Syndicated to: Security Brief NZ, Security Brief Asia, Security Brief UK
– BeyondTrust has announced the release of a new global survey, Identity Issues Impact Zero Trust Effectiveness. The survey's research focused on understanding current identity and zero trust trends, adoption rates, incidents, solutions, challenges, and new areas of focus. The research also investigated the integration requirements and techniques for zero trust solutions and how they interact with other key business applications and systems.
– Specializing in identity and access security solutions, BeyondTrust wants to expand its sales efforts and intensify its channel-first strategy. To this end, Jens Brauer has been welcomed on board as the new head of the DACH and Eastern Europe business. "Expanding our close cooperation with system houses and resellers will be crucial in order to jointly address the opportunities and challenges in a fast-growing and lucrative market segment," said Brauer.
– BeyondTrust has announced the release of a new global survey, “Identity Issues Impact Zero Trust Effectiveness.” The survey’s research focused on understanding current identity and zero trust trends, adoption rates, incidents, solutions, challenges, and new areas of focus. The research also investigated the integration requirements and techniques for zero trust solutions and how they interact with other key business applications and systems.
– BeyondTrust's Identity Issues Impact Zero Trust Effectiveness survey found identity-related incidents are commonplace. Responses from more than 300 security teams, IT professionals, and executives in five continents revealed that 93 percent had an identity-related incident in the last 18 months, with 81 percent having at least two such incidents. More than 70 percent were still in the process of implementing a zero trust approach, and nearly all companies were using multiple vendors and products in their zero trust strategy.
– As Vice President CEE, Jens Brauer leads the business in the DACH region and Eastern Europe at BeyondTrust, a provider of identity and access security. "In particular, my personal emphasis is on intensifying BeyondTrust's channel-first strategy," emphasized Brauer. "Expanding our close cooperation with system houses and resellers will be crucial in order to jointly address the opportunities and challenges in a fast-growing and lucrative market segment."
– “Deepfake audio technology is a big threat to businesses that relies on communications with foreign nationals and other geolocations,” says Morey Haber, Chief Security Officer, BeyondTrust. “ChatGPT can adapt and learn, based on samples, to make deepfake audio more realistic and include mannerisms, in real-time, just like the real person.”
– Three more of BIO-key’s clients have opted to migrate their on-premises deployments of the company’s PortalGuard identity and access management solution to the cloud-based version, PortalGuard IDaaS. “In the cloud, IT leaders can easily right-size computing resources according to unique business requirements and cut wasteful spending,” explained BIO-key’s PortalGuard President, Mark Cochran. The news comes after IAM specialist BeyondTrust added PortalGuard to its Privileged Remote Access solutions portfolio last month.
– And as he puts it, this is a feature that low-code development platforms are proud of and actively marketing because they enable productivity. But obviously from a security perspective it can quickly turn into a nightmare. It could undermine the integrity of role-based access controls, throw off user and entity behavioral analytics, and create huge compliance risks in the future, says Morey Haber, CSO for privileged access management firm BeyondTrust.
– Bringing together industry-leading security technologies and integrators, Beyond Identity, Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, Optiv, World Wide Technology, Guidepoint Security, BeyondTrust, Ping Identity and Climb Channel Solutions will enable organisations to move towards secure authentication designed to advance the Zero Trust strategies of global 5000 companies.
– “Adoption of ITDR should be undertaken carefully. Because it is more a practice than a product, integration plays a significant role in implementation. Investments can easily be squandered if stakeholders do not pay due attention to the fundamentals."
– “Christopher Hills, Chief Security Strategist, BeyondTrust, says cloud mis-configuration or lack of configuration is still the leading attack vector. “That being said, there are many other element related to cloud breaches such as malicious insider, vulnerabilities, phishing access via social engineering, and lets not forget the leading cause of breaches in general, stolen and/or compromised credentials.”
– BeyondTrust delivers cybersecurity solutions designed to reduce risks and act against internal and external data breach threats. The company offers an integrated risk intelligence platform to identify critical risks and provide information for the company. In the healthcare space, BeyondTrust's PowerBroker privileged account management solution enforces best practices; its Retina vulnerability management solutions allows the healthcare IT security team to identify exposure, analyze the business impact and conduct remediation.
– “World Backup Day celebrates everything related to data, application, and electronic technology backups. For most technology professionals, they will consider the importance of backups for servers, critical assets, and all kinds of data to protect against outages, technology failure, and threats like ransomware."
– BeyondTrust, the Atlanta-based cybersecurity software provider, needed to streamline operations, satisfy customer expectations and close projects quickly so it could recognize revenue.
– “The bottom line is that your business depends on the accuracy and privacy of the information you are entrusted with. Therefore, the value of managing the “who, what, where, when, how, and why” regarding access to your information technology cannot be underestimated. Privileged access management has numerous benefits that can solidify your information security. You would be wise to take advantage of this indispensable tool.”
– The 2023 Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report released by BeyondTrust, the worldwide leader in intelligent identity and access security, has found that elevation of Privilege is the top vulnerability category for the third consecutive year. The report said that total Microsoft vulnerabilities rose to 1,292 hitting an all-time high since the report ten years ago.
– Despite Microsoft’s advancements and the recent introduction of Microsoft Copilot, what hasn’t changed is vulnerabilities. BeyondTrust has unveiled the 2023 Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the report offers insights into the Microsoft vulnerability landscape. The report analyzes 2022 Microsoft vulnerabilities, emphasizing trends and prominent CVEs while detailing attacker exploitation methods and suggesting prevention or mitigation strategies.
– “In their recent cyberthreats report, Acronis predicts that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) will help fuel identity fraud and disinformation campaigns in the not so distant future. Christopher Hills, Chief Security Strategist, BeyondTrust believes that while AI isn’t yet capable enough to learn and replicate human behavior, recent advancements have put it to interesting use cases such as correctly predicting medical conditions based on symptoms. “Granted this is a good thing, but in the hands of a threat actor, AI could easily be leveraged for nefarious purposes,” warns Hills.”
– ChatGPT, on the chance you haven't heard of it, is a revolutionary language model developed by OpenAI that can be used for a wide variety of applications from answering questions to writing letters, essays and even software source code.
– What are the most significant changes made to your partner program over the past year? We increased our focus on Service Delivery Partners (SDP) by establishing a Partner Success Organization charged with enabling partners to increase margins via implementation and other services. In addition, we added SDP, MSP and GSI tracks to our global partner program.
– BeyondTrust, the worldwide provider of intelligent identity and access security, has released its 2023 Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report. Produced annually by BeyondTrust, the report analyses data from security bulletins publicly issued by Microsoft throughout the previous year. This 10th anniversary edition covers a decade of vulnerability insights, providing information to help organisations see into the past, present, and future of the Microsoft vulnerability landscape.
– BeyondTrust has announced the release of the 2023 Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report. This report is the 10th anniversary edition and covers a decade of vulnerability insights, providing valuable information to help organizations see into the past, present, and future of the Microsoft vulnerability landscape. Produced annually by BeyondTrust, The Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report analyzes data from security bulletins publicly issued by Microsoft throughout the previous year.
– BeyondTrust released new versions of BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access and Password Safe which are available as a bundle. These releases offer expanded capabilities for developers, cloud ops and other technical staff to secure and manage access to critical systems in a user-friendly and efficient way. The solutions provide robust infrastructure access capabilities designed for modern cloud-native environments. These Privileged Remote Access and Password Safe releases advance capabilities beyond traditional PAM solutions.
– According to Beyond Identity, several industry-leading security companies are backing the creation of Zero Trust Authentication, including Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, Optiv, World Wide Technology, Guidepoint Security, BeyondTrust, Ping Identity and Climb Channel Solutions.
– BIO-key International, Inc., a provider of identity and access management solutions featuring ‘Identity-Bound Biometrics,’ has announced it is integrating its PortalGuard IDaaS platform with BeyondTrust, an intelligent identity and access security provider. The companies say this partnership between the two companies will provide improved remote access security and assurance that only authorized users can access essential systems, data and applications.
– BeyondTrust, the intelligent identity and access security specialist, has announced that it has been named to JMP Securities Cyber 66. Janine Seebeck, CEO at BeyondTrust, says, "We are excited to be recognised by JMP Securities as a market-leading cybersecurity company addressing today's rapidly evolving threat landscape, which is creating a new urgency to achieving cybersecurity goals. BeyondTrust protects identities and critical access from security threats while creating operational efficiencies."
– BeyondTrust, the intelligent identity and access security specialist, has announced that it has been named to JMP Securities Cyber 66. Janine Seebeck, CEO at BeyondTrust, says, "We are excited to be recognised by JMP Securities as a market-leading cybersecurity company addressing today's rapidly evolving threat landscape, which is creating a new urgency to achieving cybersecurity goals. BeyondTrust protects identities and critical access from security threats while creating operational efficiencies."
– BeyondTrust, the intelligent identity and access security specialist, has announced that it has been named to JMP Securities Cyber 66. This news comes on the heels of the company's announcement of record growth in 2022, during which it accelerated recurring revenue to 80% of total revenue, with greater than 25% YoY ARR and 90% YoY subscription ARR growth.
– BeyondTrust, the intelligent identity and access security specialist, has announced that it has been named to JMP Securities Cyber 66. This news comes on the heels of the company's announcement of record growth in 2022, during which it accelerated recurring revenue to 80% of total revenue, with greater than 25% YoY ARR and 90% YoY subscription ARR growth.
– BeyondTrust, the intelligent identity and access security specialist, has announced that it has been named to JMP Securities Cyber 66. This news comes on the heels of the company's announcement of record growth in 2022, during which it accelerated recurring revenue to 80% of total revenue, with greater than 25% YoY ARR and 90% YoY subscription ARR growth.
– BeyondTrust, the intelligent identity and access security specialist, has announced that it has been named to JMP Securities Cyber 66. This annual report, now in its ninth year, highlights the 66 hottest privately held cybersecurity vendors who are finding market success and influencing the landscape even through difficult headwinds facing the market.
– BeyondTrust, the intelligent identity and access security specialist, has announced that it has been named to JMP Securities Cyber 66. This annual report, now in its ninth year, highlights the 66 hottest privately held cybersecurity vendors who are finding market success and influencing the landscape even through difficult headwinds facing the market.
– BeyondTrust has announced that it has been named to JMP Securities Cyber 66. This annual report, now in its ninth year, highlights the 66 hottest privately held cybersecurity vendors who are finding market success and influencing the landscape even through difficult headwinds facing the market.
– Morey Haber, the Chief Security Officer at BeyondTrust, says Zero Trust is no longer an abstract concept with principles that were stretch goals for any organization's security program
– A traditional Security Operations Center (SOC) is no longer a necessity in any enterprise or business. While some verticals would argue a centralized security model is necessary to monitor and manage threats, many organizations have taken this concept and adapted it to accommodate remote workers, managed services, and even blended the requirements with cloud, network, and other operations teams to manage environments holistically.
– BIO-key’s PortalGuard, integrated with BeyondTrust’s Privileged Remote Access solution that controls, manages, and audits the access of privileged employees, vendors, developers, and cloud ops engineers, now offers BeyondTrust customers a wide range of flexible authentication options, including Identity-Bound Biometrics (IBB).
– Yasmine Sameh, Program Manager at BeyondTrust – In my role as a Program Manager at BeyondTrust, I’m responsible for managing a team of Implementation Managers/Project Managers and I’m also working on delivering complex programs/projects in EMEA region. I started my career in the Tech Industry in 2011, focusing on the data storage management projects for 6 years, then networking/telecommunications for 3 years and in 2020 I decided to explore cybersecurity because it is vital element of every successful program delivery to any organization.”
– In this byline opinion article, Scott Hesford discusses how organisations needs to understand what shadow IT is and the risks it represents before finding a path forward to mitigating its potential impact on an enterprise.
– Here's what can we do to make things different – to ensure women with ability and ambition have every opportunity to advance in the endlessly exciting and dynamic world of ICT.
– Laura Edwards-Lassner discusses that many women in ICT historically had a hard time of it in terms of getting access to job opportunities and moving up the ranks.
– Laura outlines what can we do to make things different – to ensure women with ability and ambition have every opportunity to advance in the endlessly exciting and dynamic world of ICT.
– In this byline opinion article, Laura Edwards-Lassner discusses that many women historically in ICT had a hard time of it in terms of getting access to job opportunities and moving up the ranks.
– In this byline opinion article, Laura Edwards-Lassner discusses that many women historically in ICT had a hard time of it in terms of getting access to job opportunities and moving up the ranks.
– Here's what can we do to make things different – to ensure women with ability and ambition have every opportunity to advance in the endlessly exciting and dynamic world of ICT.
– In this byline opinion article, Laura Edwards-Lassner discusses that many women historically in ICT had a hard time of it in terms of getting access to job opportunities and moving up the ranks.
– In this byline opinion article, Scott Hesford explains the reality of ChatGPT and what it does for attackers. He argues that rapid iteration of malware strains by AI will require additional defensive measures and that security administrators should focus on removing local administrator accounts as a matter of course.
– Rapid iteration of malware strains by AI will require additional defensive measures and that security administrators should focus on removing local administrator accounts as a matter of course.
– One of the lasting effects of the pandemic is that expectations about work have evolved significantly, and leaders need to be proactive about responding to these changes.
– Nobody likes passwords, but we'll have to deal with it. Because, despite the predictions, the password is not dead. Attempts to replace it with biometric data, such as with facial recognition technology and fingerprints, have not been entirely satisfactory, so many are reverting to the good old (admittedly frustrating) password.
– BeyondTrust, the worldwide specialist in intelligent identity and access security, has announced the availability of BeyondTrust Password Safe and Privilege Management for Windows & Mac in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure.
– BeyondTrust, the worldwide specialist in intelligent identity and access security, has announced the availability of BeyondTrust Password Safe and Privilege Management for Windows & Mac in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure.
– BeyondTrust, the worldwide specialist in intelligent identity and access security, has announced the availability of BeyondTrust Password Safe and Privilege Management for Windows & Mac in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure.
– BeyondTrust, the worldwide specialist in intelligent identity and access security, has announced the availability of BeyondTrust Password Safe and Privilege Management for Windows & Mac in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure.
– Scott Hesford says the latest OAIC Notifiable Data Breaches report shows the extent to which the problem exists: 59% of cyber incidents reported in the period of July-December 2022 involved compromised or stolen credentials.
– Malicious attacks were the leading source of data breaches, according to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner Notifiable Data Breaches Report for July - December 2022.
– Malicious attacks were the leading source of data breaches, according to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner Notifiable Data Breaches Report for July - December 2022.
– The ACSC’s Essential Eight calls for organisations to implement application control, restrict admin privileges and harden user applications, all of which would reduce the severity of breaches.
– The National Association of State Chief Information Officers recently released its State CIO Top 10 Policy and Technology Priorities for 2023, and cybersecurity and risk management are a top focus this year.
– This article announces that BeyondTrust Password Safe and Privilege Management for Windows & Mac are now available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, simplifying the procurement process.
– In this opinion article, Scott Hesford argues that while cyber insurance is an important instrument for managing risk, organisations must still focus on ensuring they are effectively and responsibly managing cyber risk.
– Responding to the latest Australian Government OAIC Notifiable Data Breaches report, Scott Hesford provides comments on the importance of keeping credentials and login details secure following data in the report which finds that 59 per cent of cyber incidents reported in the period of July-December 2022 involved compromised or stolen credentials.
– BeyondTrust launches new versions of BeyondTrust's Privileged Remote Access and Password Safe, and the availability of both products in a single, attractively priced offering.
– Believing that traditional Privileged Access Management (PAM) tools have not kept pace with evolving cloud use cases, BeyondTrust, the expert in intelligent identity management and access security, announces the launch new versions of Privileged Remote Access and Password Safe.
– The explosion and the growing diversity of identities expose the IT security of companies to new risks because the proliferation of identity types inevitably affects the dynamics of identity management.
– While cyber insurance is an important instrument for managing risk, organisations must still focus on ensuring they are effectively and responsibly managing cyber risk.
– This article on Australia’s pending Privacy Act Reform includes comment from Scott Hesford who suggests that Australia may not need to write an entirely fresh collection of legally binding cybersecurity requirements for holding Personally Identifiable Information but we do need to ensure that we’re holding that data under the appropriate settings in accordance with recognised strategies such as the ASD Essential Eight.
– From vendors offering robust identity security capabilities to those focused on securing the data itself, here’s a look at 20 identity management and data protection companies to watch.
– If the cost to the end user is acceptable regardless of model, multi-tenant versus single tenant is really just a trade-off between change control and acceptable security risk.
– Trellix is gearing up for an aggressive assault on an expanding cyber security opportunity, combining market heritage with blank canvas flexibility as the new-look vendor builds an army of channel partners across the region.
– One of the best ways to enhance access control for your privileged accounts is to use a Privileged Access Management (PAM) solution to configure and manage your Unix/Linux system.
– Identity and access management specialist BeyondTrust has partnered with AuthID, integrating the latter’s Verified CloudConnect solution into its platform.
– BeyondTrust has announced record recurring growth in 2022 and continued innovation through expansion of its identity security platform, acquisition of new customers, and delivery of exceptional customer and employee experiences.
– KuppingerCole has ranked BeyondTrust as a Leader in its 2023 Leadership Compass for Privileged Access Management. KuppingerCole ranked the vendor as a Leader in all three of its metrics which consist of Product, Innovation and Market.
– KuppingerCole has ranked BeyondTrust as a Leader in its 2023 Leadership Compass for Privileged Access Management. KuppingerCole ranked the vendor as a Leader in all three of its metrics which consist of Product, Innovation and Market.
– KuppingerCole has ranked BeyondTrust as a Leader in its 2023 Leadership Compass for Privileged Access Management. KuppingerCole ranked the vendor as a Leader in all three of its metrics which consist of Product, Innovation and Market.
– KuppingerCole has ranked BeyondTrust as a Leader in its 2023 Leadership Compass for Privileged Access Management. KuppingerCole ranked the vendor as a Leader in all three of its metrics which consist of Product, Innovation and Market.
– KuppingerCole has ranked BeyondTrust as a Leader in its 2023 Leadership Compass for Privileged Access Management. KuppingerCole ranked the vendor as a Leader in all three of its metrics which consist of Product, Innovation and Market.
– Morey Haber, Chief Security Officer at BeyondTrust, gets his crystal ball out to predict what emergent trends are likely to take hold for the remainder of this decade.
– BeyondTrust has been recognised as a leader in KuppingerCole’s 2023 Leadership Compass for Privileged Access Management (PAM). BeyondTrust is ranked as a Leader in all three metrics, including Product, Innovation and Market.
– BeyondTrust the worldwide leader in identity and access security, has been recognised as a leader in KuppingerCole's 2023 Leadership Compass for Privileged Access Management (PAM). BeyondTrust is ranked as a leader in all three metrics, including product, innovation and market.
– Michael Byrnes, director – solutions engineering, iMEA at BeyondTrust, discusses how organizations can leverage Privilege Access Management to stop DDoS attacks.
– The latest version of its enterprise solution BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Unix & Linux enables the central storage, management and secure distribution of Sudoers files on different IT systems.
– BeyondTrust has announced new releases of its Privileged Remote Access and Password Safe and the availability of both products in a new bundle with value pricing.
– BeyondTrust has announced new releases of its Privileged Remote Access and Password Safe and the availability of both products in a new bundle with value pricing.
– BeyondTrust has announced new releases of its Privileged Remote Access and Password Safe and the availability of both products in a new bundle with value pricing.
– BeyondTrust has announced new releases of its Privileged Remote Access and Password Safe and the availability of both products in a new bundle with value pricing. These releases introduce new, expanded capabilities for developers, cloud ops and other technical staff to secure and manage access to critical systems in a way that doesn't sacrifice ease of use or efficiency.
– BeyondTrust has announced new releases of its Privileged Remote Access and Password Safe and the availability of both products in a new bundle with value pricing. These releases introduce new, expanded capabilities for developers, cloud ops and other technical staff to secure and manage access to critical systems in a way that doesn't sacrifice ease of use or efficiency.
– BeyondTrust has announced new releases of its Privileged Remote Access and Password Safe and the availability of both products in a new bundle with value pricing. These releases introduce new, expanded capabilities for developers, cloud ops and other technical staff to secure and manage access to critical systems in a way that doesn't sacrifice ease of use or efficiency.
– BeyondTrust says that new releases of its Privileged Remote Access and Password Safe have expanded capabilities for developers, cloud ops and other technical staff to secure and manage access to critical systems in a way that doesn't sacrifice ease of use or efficiency.
– “By integrating BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Unix and Linux and BeyondTrust Active Directory Bridge with Elasticsearch, we provide a unified search experience for admins to quickly and easily find everything they need,” said Sam Elliot, Senior Vice President of Product Management at BeyondTrust.
– Help Net Security is in Israel for Cybertech Tel Aviv 2023, talking to the key players from the cybersecurity industry - like BeyondTrust - and businesses from a wide range of sectors, who gathered to exchange knowledge, to network, and learn about technological innovations and solutions for combating cyber threats.
– Christopher Hills, Chief Security Strategist at BeyondTrust, says over the past year, cyber insurance has evolved and matured far beyond what we have seen in the past.
– As we head into 2023, business leaders are faced with talent shortages in all roles. An ecosystem like the one described creates better work experiences for cybersecurity, IT, and non-technical staff.
– You should use phishing-resistant multifactor authentication when you can to protect valuable data and systems. The good stuff - including passwordless options like from companies like BeyondTrust - could help stop 50% of the attacks.
– Organizations need to understand “3D” – data privacy, data security, and data protection. All of these pieces must be considered when you deal with data. Too much focus on any of the three or too little could have ill effects.
– BeyondTrust has announced key enhancements to BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Unix and Linux and BeyondTrust Active Directory Bridge to help customers defend against growing Linux threats.
– BeyondTrust has introduced new enhancements to its BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Unix and Linux and BeyondTrust Active Directory Bridge offerings to help customers defend against growing Linux-based threats.
– Rob Spee, Senior Vice President, Global Channel and Alliances, BeyondTrust in an exclusive interaction with Channel360MEA, listed the major shifts coming that will force businesses to adjust their channel strategy.
– BeyondTrust has announced key enhancements to BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Unix and Linux and BeyondTrust Active Directory Bridge to help customers defend against growing Linux threats.
– BeyondTrust has announced key enhancements to BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Unix and Linux and BeyondTrust Active Directory Bridge to help customers defend against growing Linux threats.
– BeyondTrust has announced key enhancements to BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Unix and Linux and BeyondTrust Active Directory Bridge to help customers defend against growing Linux threats.
– BeyondTrust has announced key enhancements to BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Unix and Linux and BeyondTrust Active Directory Bridge to help customers defend against growing Linux threats.
– BeyondTrust has announced key enhancements to BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Unix and Linux and BeyondTrust Active Directory Bridge to help customers defend against growing Linux threats.
– BeyondTrust has announced key enhancements to BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Unix and Linux and BeyondTrust Active Directory Bridge to help customers defend against growing Linux threats.
– BeyondTrust has announced key enhancements to BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Unix and Linux and BeyondTrust Active Directory Bridge to help customers defend against growing Linux threats.
– Scott Hesford at BeyondTrust, has called on local governments to improve access control as Australia continues to face significant security challenges.
– “Rob Spee, Senior Vice President, Global Channel and Alliances, BeyondTrust in an exclusive interaction with Channel360MEA, listed the major shifts coming that will force businesses to adjust their channel strategy.”
– Janine Seebeck, Chief Executive Officer & Board Director – BeyondTrust, makes Calibre One's 2023 list of “Top 25 Women Leaders in US PE-Backed Software”.
– BeyondTrust has announced key enhancements to BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Unix and Linux and BeyondTrust Active Directory Bridge to help customers defend against growing Linux threats.
– According to Blaine Segal, regional vice president of federal sales, such offerings could ward off cyberattacks by enabling privileged access management, BeyondTrust said Friday.
– Scott Hesford at BeyondTrust has called on local governments to step up on access control as Australia continues to face significant security challenges.
– Off the back of last year’s Cloud Attack Vectors book, the editor of Techwire Asia, Joe Green, recently interviewed Morey on how we should be re-evaluating cybersecurity in our new, cloud-centric reality of everyday work.
– CX professionals will need to work more closely with their IT security team to ensure that the right people have the right amount of access to the data.
– Attackers will lean more on their powers of persuasion than on their malware kits as they step up social engineering attacks in the cloud … a single fake social media profile, leveraged in the right way, can allow a threat actor to impersonate a trusted vendor.
– Looking at commentary and data from recent auditor general reports, this byline highlights the challenges faced by local government organisations in Australia. It also mentions some of the priorities that these organisations need to make in order to overcome challenges.
– With the demise of the classic reseller, the classic distributor that is serving the VARs today will have to become more of a partner services and enablement hub.
– The cybersecurity industry is currently urging the implementation of zero trust — the perimeterless approach that assumes a breach and treats every process, user, and session as a potential threat.
– Social Media as a Vector of Attack – Beyondtrust advises companies to be very careful if relying solely on social media to verify the identities of their recruits and vendors.