According to Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report, 19% of the threats organizations face are internal. When organizations don’t take the necessary steps to prevent internal misuse of credentials and human errors, their chances of suffering an insider threat are greater. A few ways organizations can prevent insider threats are by using threat modeling, implementing the principle of least privilege, using strict access controls and deleting accounts when employees leave.

This is the second in a series of four posts about shadow IT, including how and why teams use unapproved apps and devices, and approaches for securely managing it. For a complete overview of the topics discussed in this series, download Managing the unmanageable: How shadow IT exists across every team – and how to wrangle it.

Adware can cause performance issues and unwanted ads on your computer. Some types of adware can even collect your personal information. To protect your personal information, you need to remove as much adware from your computer as possible. To remove adware from your computer, you should back up your files, download adware removal software and remove any unnecessary programs.

This is the first in a series of four posts about shadow IT, including how and why teams use unapproved apps and devices, and approaches for securely managing it.

The Keeper Security team is thrilled to announce an updated User Interface (UI) for the Admin Console that drastically improves the user experience to save admins time and enhance productivity. The UI has a modern design that cohesively follows the much-applauded enhancements to Keeper’s end-user vault, released in 2023. The new Admin Console also provides an embedded onboarding experience that streamlines and facilitates new user adoption and proactively spotlights beneficial features.

Authorization plays an important role in Identity Access Management (IAM). IAM is a security framework of business policies and processes designed to ensure that authorized users have the necessary access to perform their jobs. Choosing the correct authorization model for your organization is important to protect sensitive resources from unauthorized access.

While both magic links and passkeys are methods of passwordless authentication, they’re not exactly the same. Some of the key differences between magic links and passkeys are how they work, their security, where a website server stores them and whether or not they expire after being used to log in to an account. Continue reading to learn more about what makes magic links and passkeys different and similar to one another.