90% of businesses around the world use Active Directory as their primary Directory Service. It plays an essential role in the identity and access management of large enterprises. In the past few years, attacks on Active Directory have soared. This is because it is a central platform where all the identities and accesses of employees are hosted, making it the keys to your enterprise.

As infrastructure continues to evolve for scalability, tenancy and efficiency, there is a growing need for solutions that can bridge the gap between mature cloud offerings such as OpenStack and the ease of deployment, flexibility, and elasticity provided Kubernetes. Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift or “RHOSO” offers a compelling solution for organizations looking to achieve this goal.

While artificial intelligence and big data steal the spotlight, a less glamorous but equally crucial discipline is quietly shaping the future of business: data governance. With European regulators imposing fines of up to 17.29 million pounds for data mismanagement, it’s clear that data governance is not just a compliance checkbox. It’s a strategic investment that can empower your organization with a tangible return on investment.

Here’s an endpoint you don’t often think about: your car. But if it’s Wi-Fi enabled, as many new models are, that means it resides at the end point of a network connection and can communicate on that network, making it an endpoint.

There are many good business, security, and compliance reasons for leveraging the extensive rule and policy engines of Fortra’s Tripwire Enterprise (TE) to implement Security Configuration Management (SCM) capabilities, which have been documented very well in other blogs. In contrast, this article deals more with “how can we fully leverage this capability” technically instead of “why” we use them.

On August 27, 2024, Fortra published a security advisory regarding a critical credential vulnerability in FileCatalyst Workflow, identified as CVE-2024-6633. FileCatalyst Workflow is a managed file transfer solution used for exchanging large files across networks.

Most modern organizations run on SaaS applications, and many use them to store sensitive data. The global SaaS market reached a total value of $206 billion in 2023, and is expected to climb to $247 billion by the end of 2024. Organizations must employ a complex system of practices to keep their SaaS apps secure and their data safe. Because SaaS apps are delivered through the cloud, they must be managed and secured differently than other types of software.

Vendor risk monitoring is the process of continuously identifying, assessing, and managing security risks associated with third-party vendors. This effort is crucial to a successful Vendor Risk Management program as it ensures an organization’s third-party risk exposures remain within acceptable levels throughout each vendor's lifecycle.

Hacktivism is by its very nature reactive, as it involves the use of computer-based techniques as a form of civil disobedience to promote a political agenda or social change. Groups conduct attacks in response to the actions of others, both to encourage or discourage these actions. With the emergence and developments of the Russia-Ukraine war and the Israel-Palestine conflict escalations, there has been a resurgence in hacktivism over the past few years.

The effectiveness of your entire Vendor Risk Management program is contingent on your vendor risk monitoring capabilities. Insufficient vendor security monitoring that fails to detect cyber risks during onboarding or any new cybersecurity risks throughout the vendor lifecycle will inevitably emerge later on as a major breach risk. To help you choose a vendor risk monitoring solution that will maximize your VRM investment, this post ranks the top eight vendor monitoring platforms on the market in 2024.