Cybersecurity is a mix of both reactive and proactive approaches. In the past, enterprises were often limited to the reactive approach. With compliance and security strategies gaining prominence, the proactive approach is also getting the spotlight. Compared to other industries, cybersecurity is highly dynamic and cybersecurity teams adopt any new technologies that can help them optimize.
In any organization, a user may access numerous devices and applications, but not always with the same username or credentials. Devices and applications use platform-specific user registries that are distinct from each other. As a result, organizations may end up monitoring five user identities from five devices separately, while they actually belong to a single user. The table below shows one user, Michael Bay, using different user identities to log on and access various devices and applications.
Imagine clicking on a seemingly harmless link and unknowingly giving away your personal and financial information to cybercriminals. Sounds like a nightmare, right? This nightmare became a reality for thousands of people in Australia and New Zealand when Latitude Financial Services suffered a massive data breach in March of 2023. Let’s take a look at the implications of the Latitude data breach and what you can do to protect yourself from falling victim to a similar attack.
Threat detection and mitigation is one of the core responsibilities of a SOC. With cyberattacks becoming more sophisticated, it has become arduous for security analysts to secure their network from threats. Hybrid work and BYOD policies are making it more difficult for SOCs to keep track of network activities. Attackers continue to improvise new tactics and techniques to compromise an organization’s network.
The cybersecurity industry is extremely dynamic and always finds a way to accommodate the latest and best technologies available into its systems. There are two major reasons: one, because cyberattacks are constantly evolving and organizations need to have the cutting edge technologies in place to detect sophisticated attacks; and two, because of the complexity of the network architecture of many organizations.
We are delighted to announce game changing features now offered as part of ManageEngine PAM360, our enterprise privileged access management (PAM) suite. With PAM360’s new additions to its Zero Trust offering, your organization’s privileged identities will be protected like never before. These updates will be available with the latest version of PAM360.
Group Policy Objects (GPOs) act as a security layer in your infrastructure. They enforce rules, regulate permissions, and affect policies across the network. Do you want to assign additional privileges to certain groups? Delete a security group? Modify password policies across the network? Prevent software installations on critical systems? All of these and more can be accomplished using GPOs.
The world is increasingly embracing cloud technology. The fact that cloud requires minimal infrastructure and operational costs is attracting enterprises to shift to cloud. Remote and hybrid work modes following the pandemic has added to the continued rise of cloud.
A DNS server is an integral part of an AD environment. Simple yet crucial activities are accomplished using DNS servers, such as authenticating, searching for computers, and identifying domain controllers. But attackers know there are a lot of loopholes in DNS that they can exploit. And, they often already know about these vulnerabilities. In this blog, you will learn how attackers can abuse.
It’s Saturday morning. You’ve decided to sleep in after last night’s bender, and you can’t be bothered about the sound of your phone ringing. You decide to brush it off and go back to sleep, but the phone won’t stop ringing. You wake up and scan your surroundings. Your wife’s missing. You let the phone ring until it’s silent and bury your head in your pillow to block out the splitting headache that’s slowly building up. A single message tone goes off.
Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we are exploring mobile malware attacks, how they have exploited users, and the ways to prevent them in the digital era. Design Credits: Dhanwant When was the last time you took a handwritten list to the grocery store instead of saving a list as a note or voice message on WhatsApp? Mobile phones have gone through a crazy evolution.
Twenty percent of IT enterprises experienced a breach due to a remote worker during the pandemic, says a report by Malwarebytes Labs. Choosing to let employees work remotely comes with pros and cons—the cons primarily being unanticipated security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities are more likely to occur because of employee ignorance, rather than a network or system malfunction.
In the face of a looming recession, companies are hunting for ways to reduce costs and increase efficiency. The pressure is particularly felt by IT departments. In addition to reducing technology costs and investing as little as possible, they must adapt quickly to evolving user needs. Several reasons have led companies to cut costs recently: Your IT department can be prepared for whatever comes next by selecting the right set of tools based on your needs.
Password security, though sometimes underrated, is crucial for an organization to remain viable in the vast digital landscape. A popular quote on the internet says, “A good neighbor is someone who does not put a password on their Wi-Fi.” However, for a good company, the opposite holds true, as they must thoroughly secure all their resources.
