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Featured

What is ITDR?

The way we protect data has changed. In the cyber realm, there is a constant state of war fought between cybersecurity and cybercrime.

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Featured

What is IAM?

Identities have been crucial throughout human history. They are classified as one of the most sensitive information-category, owing to the fact that if an identity is compromised, all hell breaks loose.

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Governance

What is user provisioning and de-provisioning?

User provisioning and de-provisioning is an identity and access management procedure that entails creating, managing, updating, and deleting employee accounts (identities) and granting them access to the organization's resources.

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Governance

Smart strategies to provision and de-provision Active Directory

User provisioning refers to the creation, modification, management, and maintenance of new user accounts and giving them the necessary permissions and authorizations to access corporate.

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Governance

5 pain points you can overcome in AD user account management

Active Directory (AD) is a crucial identity and access management component for many enterprises as it enables the creation, maintenance, and use of digital identities. The strength of your organization's security.

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Governance

Why are native Active Directory tools obsolete nowadays?

Active Directory (AD) tools were once the gold standard for managing user accounts and permissions. But today, there are better options available that provide more features and flexibility. In this article, we'll take a look at why native AD tools are obsolete, and what alternatives you should use instead.

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Governance

4 AD management mistakes that can affect your organization's cybersecurity

ince the dawn of digitization, cybersecurity has been a prevailing cause for concern. Over time, it has become increasingly difficult to operate and maintain network security as hackers and cyberattackers continue to.

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Governance

How to efficiently manage groups and users in Active Directory in 8 steps

Active Directory (AD) is a directory service provided by Microsoft for digital identity management AD helps organizations arrange objects and resources in the network hierarchically, which enables system administrators.

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Governance

Manual vs. automated identity life cycle management

IT admins can manage users' digital identities manually in startup environments. However, in mid-size and large organizations, managing thousands of digital identities manually is extremely complex. Organizations should.

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Governance

Active Directory clean-up: Should you automate it?

Active Directory (AD) helps IT administrators store the organization's resources hierarchically, including users groups, and devices like computers and printers. This helps them create account and group based rules centrally.

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Authentication

Authentication vs. authorization

The terms authentication and authorization may sound similar, but they are distinct when it comes to their core functions.

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Authentication

The fall of passwords

Passwords are strings of random letters, characters, numbers, or lyrics used to verify users' identities.

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Authentication

Passwords are dying: The increasing need for MFA

If you ask the average person what the most common cause of a data breach is, they will very likely say compromised passwords.

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Authentication

How can SSO help in reinforcing password security?

Single sign-on (SSO) is an authentication service that helps users get quick and secure access to all applications with a single set of credentials.

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Authentication

Enterprise SSO: The antidote to password fatigue

Few at the beginning of the 21st century would have guessed that managing passwords would become one of the biggest.

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Authentication

How does SSO authentication work?

Single sign-on (SSO) is a type of authentication that allows users to access multiple applications with a single set of credentials.

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Authentication

How to empower users and save money with self-service password reset technology

In simple words, self-service password reset (SSPR) is a technology that personalizes the action of resetting passwords.

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Authentication

Here's is how much the lack of SSPR can cost you

Self-service password reset (SSPR) is a technology or process through which a user who has forgotten their password or been locked.

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Authentication

What are dictionary attacks?

The UK’s National Cyber Security Center breach analysis found that 23.2 million victim accounts worldwide used 123456 as their passwords.

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Auditing

User and entity behavior analytics (UEBA)

UEBA was previously known as user behavior analytics (UBA). In 2015, the word entity was added by Gartner to include routers, servers, and endpoints. UEBA is a cybersecurity technique used to analyze the suspicious activities of users, devices, and other resources in a network using machine learning and algorithms that flag behavior that could indicate a cyberattack.

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Auditing

6 essential capabilities of a modern UBA solution

UBA is a security method that involves monitoring user activity to detect suspicious behavior. UBA solutions are designed to help organizations protect themselves from insider threats and cyberattacks.UBA solutions work by analyzing user activity data to identify patterns of behavior that may indicate a security threat. UBA,...

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Auditing

Insider threats

Insider threats originate from employees or users of a network that intentionally or unintentionally exploit a vulnerability, expose confidential data, or do something like accidentally download malicious software, resulting in an attack.

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Auditing

What are the risks involved in shadow IT

Shadow IT is software, hardware, or services used within an organization that is not known to, or monitored by, the organization's central IT department.It's the equivalent of an employee operating.

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Auditing

Insider threats 101: Detect, remediate, and mitigate

Any insider, be it an employee, former employee, contractor, third-party vendor, or business partner.

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Auditing

Why SIEM is the best defense against cyberthreats?

As IT services and infrastructure gravitate towards hybrid models, and with the recent proliferation of data, it is becoming imperative for organizations to have a centralized security solution to track users' behavior and critical security incidents.

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Automation

3 ways to prevent cyberattacks using real-time alerts

Integrating real-time data with machine learning and advanced analytics can help preempt a user's anomalous activity. Assisting IT admins with predictive insights enables them to take decisive actions to protect their organization.

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Compliance

3 ways to protect vulnerable healthcare data from security attacks

Healthcare organizations face various challenges while navigating their distributed IT environments. Ensuring patient data integrity, establishing compliance controls, and mitigating insider threats.

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Compliance

5 simple steps to HIPAA compliance

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a set of regulations designed to protect the privacy of patients’ health information. If your business deals with any kind of protected health information (PHI), then you need to be HIPAA-compliant.

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Compliance

What is PCI DSS compliance? Is your organization compliant?

The primary goal of PCI DSS is to set technical and operational standards for all organizations that accept, store, process, and transmit the payment card information of customers.

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Compliance

IAM security best practices for PCI DSS compliance

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) developed by the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) comprises of 12 security controls that need to be implemented to combat.

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Compliance

IAM security best practices for GDPR Compliance

Every organization that collects and processes personal data from the citizens of the EU must comply with the GDPR. This ensures that any information regarding the user's privacy is available only to the.

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Compliance

Why should your organization comply with the GDPR?

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a legal framework that directs businesses to protect the privacy and personal information of citizens of the European Union.

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Compliance

NIST password guidelines: Bolstering password security

Weak, repetitive, and recycled old passwords can be easily exploited by threat actors, leaving organizations vulnerable to data breaches.Thankfully, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released guidelines to help organizations bolster their password security.

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Zero Trust

The principle of least privilege

The principle of least privilege (PoLP) states that any user or entity should only have the privileges required to perform their intended function. "Least privilege" refers to the minimum level of privileges that a user needs to complete their task.

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Zero Trust

Maintain confidentiality of critical information by implementing the POLP

The principle of least privilege (PoLP) states that any user or entity should only have the privileges required to perform their intended function.

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Zero Trust

The rise of adaptive authentication

Adaptive authentication, commonly known as risk-based authentication, is a security process of verifying the identity of a user who requires access to their organization’s resources.

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Zero Trust

What is continuous monitoring?

The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) defines continuous monitoring as: "maintaining ongoing awareness of information security, vulnerabilities, and threats to support organizational risk management decisions."

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Zero Trust

3 key benefits of continuous vigilance

Continuous vigilance is a method adopted by IT security professionals who use automated monitoring technology to detect compliance and security risk issues in real-time within an organization’s IT.

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