The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently announced a ruling aimed at enhancing public companies’ cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance and incident disclosure. To sum it up, companies must report cyberattacks within four days of determining an incident is “material” and divulge details about their cybersecurity programs annually.

For security teams managing their enterprises’ privileged access management (PAM) programs, times have changed and what’s considered a privileged or high-risk account has drastically shifted. In turn, the way organizations not only manage privilege, but comprehensively secure it, must also shift. Historically, organizations have managed their PAM programs by vaulting and rotating credentials on privileged accounts.

As vulnerability researchers, our primary mission is to find as many vulnerabilities as possible with the highest severity as possible. Finding vulnerabilities is usually challenging. But could there be a way, in some cases, to reach the same results with less effort?

Today’s episode of Trust Issues focuses on spycatching! Eric O’Neill, a former FBI counterintelligence operative and current national security strategist, joins host David Puner to discuss his legendary undercover mission to capture Robert Hanssen, one of the most notorious and damaging spies in U.S. history.

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has officially arrived at the enterprise and is poised to disrupt everything from customer-facing applications and services to back-end data and infrastructure to workforce engagement and empowerment. Cyberattackers also stand to benefit: 93% of security decision makers expect AI-enabled threats to affect their organization in 2023, with AI-powered malware cited as the No. 1 concern.

Insider threats don’t often seem like threats at all. They look like colleagues working diligently at the office, logging on to the corporate network from Starbucks or providing a critical third-party service. But insider threats are a big problem that’s getting even bigger and costlier to tackle.

It is my distinct honor to announce that CyberArk has officially achieved ISO/IEC 27018:2019 certification – the first privacy-specific international standard for cloud service providers focused on safeguarding personally identifiable information (PII), one of the most mission-critical components of cloud security.

As enterprises increasingly migrate to the public cloud, identity and access management (IAM) inconsistencies across different cloud providers pose a significant hurdle. Effectively securing identities in this complex landscape has proven to be a challenge. Discussions with industry analysts and enterprise clients have highlighted a prevalent issue: the existing security tool suite often falls short in providing actionable measures to weave identity security into cloud operations.

In this blog, we will discuss innovative rootkit techniques on a non-traditional architecture, Windows 11 on ARM64. In the prior posts, we covered rootkit techniques applied to a modern Windows 10 OS (Part 1) and rootkit analysis of current threats for Intel x86-64 (Part 2). Although we have yet to come across any malware family in the wild targeting this platform, we may see it in the near future as Windows on ARM devices grow in popularity.

Crystal Trawny, Optiv’s Practice Director, Privileged Account and Endpoint Privilege Management (PAM/EPM), joins host David Puner in exploring the ever-evolving identity landscape and how emerging threats impact organizations’ cybersecurity requirements. Through the eyes of an end user, Trawny shares best practices for overcoming change resistance, creating effective deployment timelines and avoiding scope creep.

Warm. Rich. Chocolatey. The way I see it, a proper chocolate layer cake is the best sensory experience a human can have. Let’s go a bit further still: good chocolate cake is the height of human achievement. In the world of enterprise IT, one could say the same of a diverse, purpose-built IT infrastructure. Every enterprise application – whether internal or customer-facing – must run on the right server, virtual machine (VM), container or database for the task at hand.