Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

The 11th annual Global InfoSec Awards, held at the RSA Conference 2023 in San Francisco, brought together over 4,300 companies vying for recognition in various categories. Among the standout performers, ManageEngine’s AD360 won prestigious accolades in four categories. Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM) hosted the Global InfoSec Awards, recognizing the most innovative and effective cybersecurity companies and products in the industry.

It’s safe to say that we are at a juncture where Zero Trust architecture is being heralded as the gold standard when it comes to cybersecurity. This architecture gives top priority to user behavior and assets as the primary line of defense from cyber threats. Even though the vast majority of companies worldwide have adopted Zero Trust, only 1% actually meet the requirements.

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.