Gear up! The ITOM Podcast is back with an all new episode intended to help you surmount all your remote work challenges in an IT environment. In the last episode, we discussed VPN monitoring in detail, the challenges encountered while monitoring VPNs, and the key metrics to track to overcome those challenges. This week, we will deep dive into endpoint security and BYOD policies.
The application layer continues to be the most attacked and hardest to defend in the enterprise software stack. With the proliferation of tools aimed at preventing an attack, it’s no wonder the application security testing market is valued at US 4.48 billion. Forrester’s market taxonomy breaks up the application security testing tools market into two main categories: security scanning tools and runtime protection tools.
Payment fraud is exploding. So are false positives, customer friction and investigation costs. Unfortunately, as customers continue to pull us down the river of rapid digital transformation, traditional fraud detection systems are being left in the sand.
As many organizations have migrated their infrastructure, applications, and data to cloud offerings, adversaries have extended their operational capabilities in cloud environments to achieve their mission — whether that means stealing intellectual property, disrupting business operations, or holding an organization’s data for ransom.
As efforts increase to protect customers from card-present and card-not-present fraud, there is an increasing risk lurking for banks and retailers: false positives. According to KPMG’s 2019 global fraud survey, 51% of respondents reported a significant number of false positives resulting from current technology solutions and decreasing efficiencies in fraud detection.
Digital attackers can compromise a system in a matter of minutes. But it generally takes organizations much longer to figure out that anything has happened. In its 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), for instance, Verizon Enterprise found that more than half of large organizations took days or even months to detect a security incident. Such dwell time gave attackers all they needed to move throughout an infected network and exfiltrate sensitive data.
Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) are major inhibitors for organizations moving to the cloud—and for good reason. Cloud environments are complex, and even a single misconfigured security group can result in a serious data breach. In fact, asset misconfigurations were the leading cause of cloud security breaches in 2019. This puts a lot of pressure on developer and operations teams to properly secure their services and maintain regulatory compliance.
