Top 5 trending cyber-attack techniques affecting your enterprise!

While a provisioning system enables enterprises to add, modify and delete user accounts on various business applications, it is also imperative for organizations to implement access parameters as per the business requirement. However, the challenge is to select the right access conditions and ensuring that employees are given only the appropriate amount of access to conduct their work. As the provisioning system is based on certain configurations and in case of any error in the rules, the user provisioning will also be attributed incorrectly. Thus, the only method to verify that the provisioning is being provided as per the regulations, auditing of the functions needs to be undertaken through the process of ‘re-certification.’ Understanding access recertification It is a process through which user access rights are collected and thereafter, a comparative analysis is being conducted to understand if the access rights providers are acceptable or required. Such an audit is undertaken thro...

Penetration testing is a robust solution to safeguard critical data or a network from cyber-attacks and data breaches proactively. Penetration testing or pen testing, often termed as ethical hacking, is a technique wherein simulated cyberattacks are being conducted for identifying, testing, and focusing on the vulnerabilities in the IT ecosystem of an enterprise in a proactive manner. Usually, such a test is being undertaken by companies with expertise in ethical hacking, who are able to evaluate whether the security posture of a company, including the systems, networks and applications could be hacked by an outside agent or malicious insider. Pen testing also enables companies to evaluate whether their systems are adhering to compliance regulations. Penetration testing process Usually, the penetration testing process is undertaken in five stages, with each stage focusing on a certain aspect of finding the vulnerability in the current IT ecosystem of the enterprise. ·  ...