In the complex world of information management and system administration, two fundamental concepts – delegation and authorization – often intersect to determine how permissions, responsibilities and security are handled. In this blog post, we'll explore the intriguing interplay between delegation and authorization and how they work together to ensure efficient access and secure operations. Delegation: Sharing Responsibility.

In the previous article, we covered some fundamental information you should know before installing WSUS in your infrastructure. Just to refresh your memory, WSUS stands for Windows Server Update Service, and it is used for the centralized update and reporting of Microsoft-based products. This includes Windows, Windows Servers, Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, and others.

In a world where data is the new currency, understanding and leveraging data monitoring has become indispensable. Data monitoring involves systematically collecting, analyzing, and managing data to uphold its quality, security, and compliance—a critical process in a world where data influences every decision and innovation.

In addition to managing other aspects of the Azure environment, admins must manage their Azure subscriptions. It is also necessary to understand how to manage your subscriptions for the purposes of the AZ-104 exam. This guide will explore AZ-104 managing subscriptions and the tools used to do this.

This is the fourth and final post in a series on how to secure your hybrid workforce. For a complete overview of the topics discussed in this series, download The new perimeter: Access management in a hybrid world.

The financial consequences of a data breach can impact your organization in unprecedented ways. Entailing costly remediation measures and reputational damage, data breaches often amount to substantial monetary losses. But what factors contribute to the overall cost of a data breach? Calculating the financial cost of a data breach is a tricky process that includes estimating the total cost associated with all the consequences.

Last year, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted rules on cybersecurity risk management that focused on transparency. Much of the adopted rules were focused on investors, but the rules also underscored the importance of the impact to customers when cybersecurity incidents occur. The data security landscape has recently shifted to prioritize the user or the customer, and that was just one of the steps in furthering the approach.

Researchers at VIPRE Security observed a 276% increase in malware delivered by phishing between Q1 and Q4 of 2023. “Last year, our YARA rules caught between one and two million generic malware instances each quarter, with a nearly 20% jump in Q4,” VIPRE’s report says.

Cyberattacks are evolving and growing more sophisticated, organizations are reacting to this by scaling the cybersecurity solutions they deploy to include services that go beyond threat protection. They are increasingly realizing that other factors such as monitoring and responsiveness are key to protecting their business.

With new identities, environments and attack methods dominating today’s threat landscape, cybersecurity leaders are hyper-focused on securing identities to safeguard enterprises. However, a glaring, high-touch security gap exists that threat actors actively exploit to steal confidential data. And unsuspecting as it seems, that gap lies in the most used enterprise application of all time – the web browser.