According to Business Insider, 80% of people give up on their new year resolutions within the first 30 days. Don’t let your business and IT security goals fall into this trend, too! We’re now in February, but there’s still plenty of time to salvage your new-year goals, both your IT security and personal ones. The secret to falling into that successful 20% is to chart your resolution with clear plans on how to achieve it.
ManageEngine’s privileged access management (PAM) suite of products have helped over one million IT administrators and users around the globe efficiently manage their privileged credentials and access. On that note, we’re excited to announce that we’ve been recognized as a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Privileged Access Management!
Privileged Access Management (PAM) is a go-to solution to prevent privilege misuse and insider threats, and limit malware propagation. After all, properly protecting and monitoring the keys to the kingdom is always a good practice. Privileged Access Management has been even more critical in recent times. With the advent of the cloud where infrastructure is provisioned with a single API call and authenticated with a single API key, the risk of someone misusing these credentials is far higher.
Passwords have been the long-time guardian of our personal lives and data ever since the dawn of the internet. Though passwords might still retain most of their relevance, they are not robust enough to protect today’s digital economy.
I talk to a lot of engineers every day. SREs. Systems Architects. Security Engineers. What I am hearing from them is that they are moving away from passwords — both in their personal lives, opting for more secure forms of authentication like biometrics and second factors, and at work. It just doesn’t make sense anymore to protect your personal bank with a second factor, but to share around an SSH key to access critical server infrastructure.
Cybercriminals are continuously finding new ways to steal sensitive information. Having robust network security measures in place is now more important than ever — and network authentication is part of the solution. There are various authentication technologies available that can add an extra layer of protection to prevent security lapses, and each one offers a unique solution. This post will highlight the most common methods for network authentication and answer the following questions.
With 2022 around the corner, many want to hit the ground running and make the new year different from the last. If you’ve also been preparing for a productive year and scaling your organization up, this blog will bring you up to speed on the major security trends of 2021 you should know about. With ADManager Plus, you can easily adapt to these new trends and be ready to take on any IAM challenge in 2022. For now, here are the major IAM trends of 2021.
In this blog, we’ve analyzed data from Netskope customers that include security settings of over 1 million entities in 156,737 Google Cloud (GCP) projects across hundreds of organizations (see Dataset and Methodology for more details on the dataset). We will specifically look at the configuration of service accounts, see what’s commonly occurring in the real world, and analyze how multiple security misconfigurations can lead to escalation of privileges and lateral movement.
