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The amount Colonial Pipeline paid to DarkSide ransomware attackers: $5 million. A costly hack, but certainly not the first cyberattack the U.S. energy industry has experienced. In 2020, energy companies endured the third-largest number of cyber...
May 18, 2021
Read MoreA strong cybersecurity strategy is a critical factor for any organization, but for Colt Telecommunications, whose clients include data-intensive organizations spanning over 210 cities in more than 30 countries, a secure network is absolutely...
April 29, 2021
Read MoreA fundamental tenet of Zero Trust assumes that there are no barriers keeping bad actors at bay. That very idea may seem like an intimidating one, considering our traditional methods for access management. The best way to understand Zero Trust,...
April 22, 2021
Read MoreSecurity breaches of privileged accounts that allow bad actors unrestricted access to the company’s most sensitive data and IT systems can be catastrophic to any business. Increased IT...
March 23, 2021
Read MoreMany organizations need to make sweeping changes to their security mindset in the face of evolving challenges, open configuration, and new paradigms. In a traditional approach, network security would “trust but verify” and automatically trust users...
March 17, 2021
Read MoreMany organizations are stuck between two unfortunate truths with their privileged access management (PAM) program. According to a recent poll of more than 150 IT professionals by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), which was sponsored by Bravura...
March 4, 2021
Read MoreOn average, it takes 280 days to identify and contain a data breach, according to the latest data from IBM’s “Cost of a Data Breach Report 2020.” Add the increase in malicious attacks, which now account for more than half of data breaches, plus the...
February 23, 2021
Read MoreMost organizations continue to employ user accounts that indefinitely retain elevated privileges, despite increasing evidence that utilizing standing privileged accounts is inherently insecure. A recent poll from Enterprise Management Associates...
February 17, 2021
Read MoreThe current approaches to privileged access management are no longer enough to protect evolving IT environments in the face of ever-changing mounting cybersecurity threats. Networks have become a dynamic landscape, and the traditional methods that...
February 9, 2021
Read MoreSetting yourself up for success with an upcoming privilege access management (PAM) system requires finesse. Within any organization, many system administrators might be uncomfortable with the idea of a PAM system; they may be accustomed to...
February 2, 2021
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