Top 5 trending cyber-attack techniques affecting your enterprise!

What damages could one claim in a data theft lawsuit? The answer depends on the circumstances of the case. For example, it may be possible to claim that the company was negligent in handling patient data or that the company had no idea that the information contained in the systems would be vulnerable to hackers.  In addition to the breach itself, there may also be other damages associated with the leak, such as the cost of forensic investigations after the data was stolen. Further, the victim may have to hire credit monitoring services and spend time recovering from the incident. Finally, if the defendant knew of the breach, it may have taken appropriate measures to prevent fraud or other losses.  In these cases, the plaintiff may claim that the company knew of the risk but failed to take action or was unaware of the breach. Medical Identity Theft As medical records are increasingly shared online, more people may be at risk for medical identity theft. In such a situation, the ...

Finding creative, innovative ways of breaking into data treasures, and hacking is today’s reality. Privileged account management has been critical to data security, and this IT security feature has been at the centre of attention. The latest data breaches have been cases where attackers compromised a privileged user’s credentials to gain unobstructed authorized access to data. Often data gathering is becoming a business domain in itself, however, Bulk data gathering is still done with no regard and attention to data security. Data-collection practices of companies and governments for legit reasons (such as health records) or through mobile-based applications, browser cookies have created trust issues.   Getting into an antagonistic position because data is unprotected is a situation no corporate will want to find itself in. Cyber theft is not limited to anti-virus and anti-malware software. For businesses, it is about keeping it in a well-organized folder of data – available to acc...

A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is someone who has climbed up to a senior-level executive role within an organization. The key responsibility is to establish, protect and maintain enterprise vision, strategy, and program to ensure information assets are protected through the right set of technological interventions. With time, the role has become challenging as the sophistication of evolved technology requires constant learning. As cybercriminals invest in developing sophisticated hacking tools, CISOs are expected to be a step ahead of them. While hacking aims at exploiting security vulnerabilities, hackers have successfully developed robust tools that include, but are not limited to advanced features such as forensics, APIs, etc.   CISOs are expected to set up checkpoints as they deal with a range of threats – Insiders as well as outsiders hack into an organization’s IT infrastructure. Stay a step ahead of the rest. Staying up with time by adopting correct secure techn...

  To create holistic identity governance, it is imperative to select appropriate systems and sequence for onboarding and deploying SailPoint products with multiple Active Directories 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...

  With the world moving rapidly to digitization, the information collected and stored digitally is becoming vulnerable to cyber-attacks. As the cyber safety protocols and technologies including Identity and Access Management as well as Identity Governance are becoming advanced. They are stringently monitoring the information, and identities of enterprises from possible cyber-attacks. But the miscreants are turning smarter with every unfolded security setup to wreak havoc with your business information. These attacks jeopardize your business in multiple ways, starting from losing client to data leakage, information security lapses, loss of contracts, customers and the list goes on. Like we have already known, prevention is better than cure. You got to stay alert and brace yourself against such unethical hacking practices in any way. Before you resolve any possible issue, it is important to know the culprits, i.e. the hacking techniques that might ruin your business. Once you are...

  Despite being pegged as intuitive and intelligent system, Identity and Access Management (IAM) implementation remains a struggle for many.   IAM assist in creation of secure IT System with an improved ability to automatically detect threats and cyber risks.   Organizations are able to achieve maximum information security. Improved security and surveillance into user access privileges. Reduced security costs through task automation, audit and reporting capabilities, tighter security controls, eliminated or reduced duplicate user IDs. Business-centric benefits are overlooked and a hush-hush tendency prevails. What is known less is that the resourcefulness it brings to business establishments, be it small business setups of big corporate houses, is IAM’s automation benefits. Automation brought about through  IAM solutions  can create an edge when it comes to optimization of resources – be it the manpower or technical infrastructure. IAM brings much-needed workflo...