The latest statistics on data center breaches show that perimeter firewalls are still not impenetrable. But what cyber criminals count on is what they will find beyond the perimeter - a hardware-centric security model that has remained unchanged for years.
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As software as a service (SaaS) and cloud applications have grown in popularity, IT environments have become more distributed, fragmented and nebulous - with many components existing outside of the traditional security perimeter of firewalls and virtual private networks (VPNs).
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As cybercriminals evolve from attacking financial institutions to targeting various organizations with identity theft tools, digital users' identification strategies need to quickly adapt as well. At the same time, customers expect faster and more convenient services, enhancing the challenges organizations face -...
Despite the proliferation of social networks and messaging apps, email remains the primary means of communication today. Unfortunately, it also remains a persistent threat vector for cybersecurity abuse. We see these evil emails everywhere: at work, at home and in the news, attempting to sell something, or steal...
This monthly Security Agenda will highlight some of the most recent additions to our course library. April's edition features Visa's SVP Risk Services, Margaret Reid discussing how to keep CNP fraud at Bay. Other industry influencers like University of Michigan's Kevin Fu, Target's Chief Information Security Manager,...
Data breaches feed the market for fraudsters to steal identities, which challenges traditional approaches to identifying the genuine from the fraudster. We hear that knowledge-based authentication is dead. But trust in any single defense is flawed. No single route to "trust" should be applied. We should never lose...
Many high-profile cyberattacks in the healthcare sector have involved gaining access to privileged accounts. Once hackers establish a privileged foothold, they gain unfettered access to elevate privileges and move about the network freely without detection. Understanding this widely used method of attack is essential...
Along with DNS, digital keys and certificates are at the foundation of any layered cybersecurity defense. Moreover, keys and certificates are akin to HLAs (Human Leukocyte Antigens) because they serve as unique identifiers giving authorized users access to encrypted systems.
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Nearly every major breach over the last three years - including Anthem, Target, Home Depot, Office of Personnel Management, the Internal Revenue Service, the National Security Agency - shared a crucial commonality: attackers gained entry using compromised or stolen credentials.
This range of identity-centric...
This $2 billion manufacturer - with customers in the nuclear, defense, aerospace and power generation industries - chose Thycotic Secret Server to secure and manage their privileged account passwords across its global enterprise.
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The increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats facing healthcare are making privileged access management more critical, says Sudhakar Gummadi, CISO at Molina Healthcare, a managed care company.
What's your digital identity strategy? Numerous agencies in countries across Europe - such as the Italian postal service - are creating new approaches to verifying identities and allowing them to be used as a trusted service, says CA's Paul Briault.
The Target breach was the hot topic for many RSA 2014 attendees, but Gartner's Avivah Litan was already talking about the next Target - a UK retailer that may have suffered a similar hack, exposing payment card data.
Preventing patient record "snooping" is an ongoing challenge for hospitals in their HIPAA compliance efforts. But with the intensifying attention on Ebola cases, hospitals need to up their game in protecting patient privacy.
Customers increasingly use digital channels to interact with organizations. But these interactions raise new security concerns that must be addressed by IAM solutions, says David Gormley of CA Technologies.
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