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How to Record and Monitor RDP Sessions with Ekran System [Hands-on Guide]

Monitoring remote desktop protocol (RDP) connections to your infrastructure is essential for maintaining a secure IT environment and managing insider risks. Additionally, recording remote user activity on your organization’s servers and other critical endpoints is often a requirement of cybersecurity laws and regulations. This article will guide you on how to monitor RDP connections to your infrastructure server, Jump server, Citrix server, or any other endpoint with Ekran System Client installed.

7 Best Practices to Secure System Administrators' Privileged Accounts

System administrators hold the keys to your organization’s cybersecurity. However, their accounts can also be a source of cybersecurity risks to your company. Both cybercriminals and malicious administrators can exploit the elevated privileges for their own benefit. In this article, we explore key risks coming from admin accounts and offer seven effective best practices on how to protect administrative access to your organization’s critical systems and data.

Privileged User Management vs Privileged Access Management: What's the Difference?

In today’s rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape, managing privileged access has become a critical concern for organizations of all sizes. Two common approaches to managing privileged access are Privileged User Management (PUM) and Privileged Access Management (PAM). In this article, we compare PUM vs PAM approaches and explore why they matter for your organization’s security.

Top 10 Best Practices for Privileged User Monitoring

Privileged users are an essential part of any organization. However, with access to commercial secrets and to the most vulnerable parts of the corporate network, they can pose high risks to your corporate cybersecurity. For this reason, the more privileges users have, the closer they need to be monitored. Furthermore, privileged user monitoring (PUM) is a requirement of multiple laws, regulations, and data security standards including NIST 800-53, GDPR, and HIPAA.

How Can Ekran System Protect You against Infected USB Devices?

While it’s difficult to imagine our business lives without USB devices, each USB connection can pose a serious risk to an organization’s security. Attackers can infect USB devices with malware that attacks your corporate system once a user connects an infected device. Such attacks can damage your infrastructure or machines and result in the theft or compromise of sensitive data.

Your Security Guide to Insider Threat Protection: 10 Best Practices to Follow

Insider incidents, whether intentional or unintentional, can harm your organization in the form of financial and reputational losses, compliance violations and fines, and operational disruptions. What can you do to avoid this? How can you protect yourself against insider threats? The solution is simple: fortify your organization’s security processes with a carefully executed insider threat strategy.

Mandatory Access Control vs Discretionary Access Control: Which to Choose?

Access control is one of the most important cybersecurity practices. Careful adjustment of users’ access rights helps to secure sensitive data and reduces the chance of a successful attack. However, choosing an access control model relevant to your organization can be tricky. In one of our previous posts, we reviewed role-based and attribute-based access control models. This article discusses use cases for mandatory and discretionary access control models.

10 Steps to Pain-Free GDPR Compliance

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is often considered the strictest regulation in the world for securing users’ personal data, with fines for non-compliance reaching more than €20 million. The GDPR applies to all organizations processing the personal data of European Union (EU) residents. Do you find it daunting to read through the complex articles of this regulation?

Data Protection in Insurance: Compliance Requirements for the Insurance Companies

As desirable targets for cybercriminals, insurance companies must comply with strict data protection requirements. Non-compliance often leads to data breaches and considerable fines. In this article, you’ll learn about eight data protection best practices for insurance organizations to comply with relevant laws, regulations, and standards and safeguard your customers’ sensitive data.

Industrial & Corporate Espionage: What Is It, Cases & Best Prevention Practices

Knowledge is power. Especially in the hands of your competitors. Information about your company, its products and services, finances, sales, and marketing strategy is a weapon of modern economic warfare. That’s why it’s important to ensure that your organization’s data is well-protected. In this article, we explain (with real-life examples) how corporate spies attack and discuss how to prevent industrial espionage.