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Face New Digital Challenges with Secure DevOps

System Administrators are no loner managing boxes sitting under their desks; Now, they're coding their infrastructure. The new digital users, enforced by the as-a-service business model, leave them facing critical challenges to manage and interconnect increasingly diverse systems, and to ensure scalability and...

Controlling & Managing Privileged Access: A Primer on Privileged Access Management

Effectively managing privileged accounts (sometimes called superuser accounts) is becoming more and more critical as security and compliance emerge as the driving forces behind most IT initiatives. Unfortunately, native tools and manual practices for privileged account management are proving to be inadequate...

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CISO's Guide to Compliance: Improve Security with PAM

With major data breaches in the news and high-stakes security regulations in effect - including GDPR and the NIS Directive - CISOs worldwide are scrambling to comply with IT standards and avoid hefty fines. Privileged Access Management (PAM) streamlines compliance and overlaps with the requirements of many...

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The Benefits of Privileged Access Management (PAM) in the Cloud

Companies are moving to the cloud in greater numbers than ever, targeting flexibility and access for their increasingly distributed workforces. But cloud migration of critical resources, even a portion for hybrid environments, presents serious security challenges and risks on many levels. The cloud is an attractive...

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Controlling Privileged Access: Key to Compliance with the NIS Directive

The NIS Directive, effective since May 2018, aims to standardize the security practices of Essential Services entities and their digital service providers to better defend against cyber attacks. Privileged Access Management (PAM) is a critical aspect of cyber defense, and responds to many of the NIS Directive's most...

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Industrial Control System Security and How PAM Can Help

What makes Industrial Control Systems (ICS) so vulnerable to cyber attack? How does this impact the wider enterprise? With IoT-connected equipment and remote management on the rise, security has never been so important. Privileged Access Management (PAM) secures and controls access to critical Industrial...

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GDPR & ISO 27001: Cross-Mapping PAM Requirements

Two heavyweight cybersecurity regulations, ISO 27001 and the more recent GDPR, are major concerns for CISOs and IT teams worldwide. Conveniently for CISOs and IT teams, however, the two standards have much in common. Here we offer a cross-mapping of the security requirements of each regulation, and how PAM can help...

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Forrester Report: Best Practices: Selecting, Deploying, And Managing Enterprise Password Managers

Despite increased use of two-factor authentication, single sign-on, and biometrics, passwords are still the most common form of authentication. However, when a significant percentage of breaches are caused by weak, stolen, or reused passwords, it's clear passwords pose significant risks that can't be ignored. From...

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Global Password Security Report

You know password management is important. But is your business failing to invest in this easy security and productivity win? In this Global Password Security Report, we're uncovering the true state of corporate password security around the world. We analyzed aggregated data from more than 43,000 businesses using...

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A Closer Look at Password Strength

Overall, Password Strength Scores follow the trends for Security Scores: As companies get bigger, on average their Password Strength Score goes down. For businesses with fewer than 25 employees, the average total Password Strength Score is 53. At more than 10,000 employees, the average score drops to...

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The State of Multi-factor Authentication

Multifactor authentication remains an industry best practice for preventing unauthorized account access. Our analysis this year found that, overall, 45% of businesses are using multifactor authentication. This is a significant increase from last year's 24.5%. Encouragingly, more businesses are augmenting account...

The Security Dangers Lurking in Your Hybrid Cloud Environment

The beauty of the cloud is that it's possible to expand capabilities like short-term capacity or long-term backups quickly and without the costly infrastructure and additional employees associated with on-premise equipment. Unfortunately, many organizations are discovering their cloud environments are unattended...

Securing Email in the Digital Transformation Era

Digital transformation has made it increasingly easy for consumers to switch institutions at the least provocation. But leaders like Capital One, Guardian Life, and Goldman Sachs are embracing change and moving to the cloud. They're creating great customer experiences - and fighting churn - by integrating email into...

Best Practices for Securing Privileged Access

Is your privileged access management system directly addressing the problems which face your business? Download this white paper and learn: How privileged accounts should be used by one system to connect to other accounts used to run service programs; Best practices for processes, policies and technology used to...

Gartner: Market Guide for Privileged Access Management

While support for cloud infrastructure is rapidly maturing and more vendors are adding behavior analytics and privileged task automation, pricing and licensing remain variable. Security and risk management leaders should evaluate multiple vendors with an eye on future requirements as well as costs. Download this...