President Obama is creating a federal CISO post as part of a multifaceted initiative aimed at strengthening the nation's IT security. His plan includes forming a public-private Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity and boosting government cybersecurity spending by 35 percent.
IT security and access management have never been greater challenges.
While the criminals get smarter, the IT environments become more complex to manage. Most are a hybrid of on-premise systems and a multitude of cloud providers transforming the act of role-based access management into a manual nightmare. To...
Access Management was mainly focused on web authentication, single sign-on, and access to intranet applications. However, the enterprise access management landscape has been evolving at a fast pace over the last few years to meet the requirements of new computing paradigms and technologies transforming the way...
Privileged credentials have served as a major attack
vector in the successful execution of many breaches.
Protecting privileged access is an imperative to
successfully defend an organization from a breach and
is a core requirement of multiple compliance regimes.
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A new layer of security in organizations, focused specifically on the protection and management
of identities, is a critical new requirement in efforts to stem the tide of breaches. Of these identities, none are so
critical as those belonging to privileged users.
Malicious users predictably follow a logical...
Virtualization and cloud computing adoption are elevating the importance and complexity of an age-old problem: effectively managing and protecting passwords for privileged accounts. Managing and protecting privileged credentials is
essential to reducing risk and addressing compliance
requirements. Organizations need...
Organizations handling transactions involving credit or debit cards are facing increasing pressure to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data
Security Standard (PCI DSS) version 3, which established
various requirements for safeguarding an organization's relevant systems and networks, comprising the
Cardholder...
To not only survive in the application economy, businesses are undergoing a digital transformation in which they
add digital components to all of their products and services. This
means having to develop for and integrate with a variety of APIs,
microservices, cloud applications and infrastructures-...
Today's cybercriminals are aware of the fraud prevention technologies deployed by most financial institutions, and they design attacks to circumvent these controls. Transaction anomaly detection and device ID approaches can be highly inaccurate, generating a large number of false positive alerts that can overwhelm IT...
Recent attacks have shown that once a user's endpoint is infected with advanced malware, criminals can bypass most security layers, including two-factor authentication, device ID systems, risk engines and behavioral analytic systems. Banking malware such as Citadel, Zeus, Dyre and Bugat, incorporate advanced...
At the core of every cyber-security strategy is identity and access management. Because so many security issues and audit failures are user-related, organizations need to make sure people have appropriate, up-to-date access entitlements and that their access activities are monitored wherever they are located. The...
Today's constantly evolving advanced malware and APTs can evade point-intime defenses to penetrate networks. Security professionals must evolve their strategy in lock-step to confront these advanced threats before, during and after attacks. NSS Labs recently cut through the noise surrounding advanced threats and the...
More and more companies today are finding themselves under a multitude of common and advanced malware attacks. As a security professional or IT manager, you are likely struggling to effectively identify attacks, let alone prioritize the most dangerous ones that should be addressed first.
With the Cisco® Advanced...
It is not too far when most enterprises will experience doomsday scenarios, as cyber threats are only increasing faster than the ability to implement security improvements. One cannot deny the fact that even those organizations employing good cyber practices are being penetrated, as hackers are getting more...
Despite advances by the security industry, criminals continue to break through security defenses. And attackers now realize that bigger and bolder attacks are not always better. New threat intelligence and trend analyses reveal how attackers take advantage of the gaps between the defenders' intent and action.
The...
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