Top 5 trending cyber-attack techniques affecting your enterprise!

Deploying IAM Managed Services have become a norm for enterprises to track and secure their business information, be it about their finances or employees and their identities. Being a business owner, your client needn’t bother about slogging stats and security features threatening to wreak havoc to their enterprise.   IAM Managed Services   are not child’s play, so business owners often wonder how these solutions propel their business for success, does their workforce got the right resources, and how secure is their business online.   Client onboarding with IAM Managed Services   hence calls for priority IT security solutions by maintaining a healthy relationship with the clients. If you find your IAM managed services are not bringing you effective results then Avancer is always there for your smooth sail! Let’s explore the dos and don’ts of  client onboarding with IAM Managed Services.  Here comes what you should do while onboarding clients for  IAM M...

The key to the management of identities, an agile Active Directory (AD) acts as a map between names and values. In comparison to native tools, it is easier and faster for addressing the auditing and security needs of an enterprise, along with ensuring workflow streamlining, providing business continuity and optimizing IT capabilities. In fact, the core to office automation is to provide a repository of directories that identifies all resources within a network and connects them to users and applications. Active Directory brings together resources, users, networks and access points, offering a platform to enable better management of users with departmental access to corporate services and business resources. However, undertaking such access control over all enterprise applications and shared files could be a complex process. SailPoint, with its specialized identity solutions, such as IdentityIQ and IdentityNow, has been able to provide an apt solution. With the integration of SailPoint ...

  Testing IT Risks in Healthcare IT Systems Not a day goes by without news and reports around cyber-attacks. High-profile, high-impact cyber breaches are becoming common. IDC’s Health Insights group predicts that 1 in 3 health care recipients will be the victim of a health care data breach in 2016. Healthcare providers (including insurance providers) must encrypt personal information. A cyber breach can cause financial losses and more serious damage to the parties breached in the process than ever before. The repository of information saved in the healthcare industry database is supposed to be sensitive, private and confidential. In a healthcare setting a reasonably practical IT Security strategy to eliminate all possible cyber security risks is not usually possible. Given the extent of access required by various clinical and lab, the staff keeps changing, dynamics of the IAM framework in a healthcare setting are quite different. In addition to the brick and mortar, IT fixes – to d...

 The financial  industry is driven by data from user details, transactions, account details, payment information, access governance, vendor management and so on. For financial organizations, having a strong plan to defend against cyber-attacks and creating an action-based process to deal with a potential attack is crucial. Getting basics in place, and augmenting IT security with the right set of technology not only secures IT assets but works towards thriving operations within an organization. There are drastically lower computing challenges related to IT hold up. A strategically aligned IT Security System with the right set of application integration, identity management, governance of access, a notification mechanism, etc. are imperative for IT Systems to flourish. Despite the best of technological systems in place, the robustness of a system has to stand the test of time, and whether it has come of age with respect to technological offerings in the market that are up to the...

The current pandemic situation escalated ransomware and phishing scams, with cybercriminals taking advantage of insecure systems and networks, impacting both large and small businesses. In fact, the average cost of a data breach during the pandemic witnessed an increase to reach USD 21,659 per incident, with most incidents ranging from USD 826 to USD 653,587, according to a report by Verizon. Notably, almost 5 percent of such successful attacks cost businesses USD 1 million or more. Shift to remote working due to COVID-19 anticipated to further increase the cost of a data breach, with the average total cost of a data breach of USD 3.86 million jumping up to USD 4 million, as per another report by IBM. The remote workforce is also expected to increase the time taken to identify and contain a potential data breach. However, the most worrying aspect of data breaches remains the compromise of customers’ personally identifiable information (PII). As per the IBM report, in comparison to othe...