Top 10 Cybersecurity Companies To Watch In 2019
Gartner predicts worldwide spending on information security products and services will reach $124B in 2019, growing 8.7% over the $114B invested in 2018. Cloud Security platform and application sales are projected to grow at a 35.3% Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) between 2017 to 2019, becoming a $459M market this year. Security Services is projected to be […]
Machine Learning Is Helping To Stop Security Breaches With Threat Analytics
Bottom Line: Machine learning is enabling threat analytics to deliver greater precision regarding the risk context of privileged users’ behavior, creating notifications of risky activity in real time, while also being able to actively respond to incidents by cutting off sessions, adding additional monitoring, or flagging for forensic follow-up. Separating Security Hacks Fact from Fiction It’s […]
How The Top 21% Of PAM-Mature Enterprises Are Thwarting Privileged Credential Breaches
Energy, Technology & Finance are the most mature industries when it comes to Privileged Access Management (PAM) adoption and uses, outscoring peer industries by a wide margin. 58% of organizations do not use Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for privileged administrative access to servers, leaving their IT systems and infrastructure exposed to hacking attempts, including unchallenged privileged […]
How to Improve Privileged User’s Security Experiences With Machine Learning
Bottom Line: One of the primary factors motivating employees to sacrifice security for speed are the many frustrations they face, attempting to re-authenticate who they are so they can get more work done and achieve greater productivity. How Bad Security Experiences Lead to a Breach Every business is facing the paradox of hardening security without sacrificing […]
How To Secure Mobile Devices In A Zero Trust World
86% of enterprises are seeing mobile threats growing the fastest this year, outpacing other threat types. 48% say they’ve sacrificed security to “get the job done” up from 32% last year. 41% of those affected say the compromise is having major with lasting repercussions and 43% said that their efforts to remediate the attacks were […]
CIO’s Guide To Stopping Privileged Access Abuse – Part 2
Why CIOs Are Prioritizing Privileged Credential Abuse Now Enterprise security approaches based on Zero Trust continue to gain more mindshare as organizations examine their strategic priorities. CIOs and senior management teams are most focused on securing infrastructure, DevOps, cloud, containers, and Big Data projects to stop the leading cause of breaches, which is privileged access abuse. Based […]
CIO’s Guide To Stopping Privileged Access Abuse – Part I
CIOs face the paradox of having to protect their businesses while at the same time streamlining access to the information and systems their companies need to grow. The threatscape they’re facing requires an approach to security that is adaptive to the risk context of each access attempt across any threat surface, anytime. Using risk scores […]
5 Things Every Executive Needs To Know About Identity And Access Management
For new digital business models to succeed, customers’ privacy preferences need to be secure, and that begins by treating every identity as a new security perimeter. Organizations need to recognize that perimeter-based security, which focuses on securing endpoints, firewalls, and networks, provides no protection against identity and credential-based threats. Until they start implementing identity-centric security […]
5 Ways To Demystify Zero Trust Security
Bottom Line: Instead of only relying on security vendors’ claims about Zero Trust, benchmark them on a series of five critical success factors instead, with customer results being key. Analytics, Zero Trust Dominated RSA Analytics dashboards dominated RSA from a visual standpoint, while Zero Trust Security reigned from an enterprise strategy one. Over 60 vendors claimed […]
74% Of Data Breaches Start With Privileged Credential Abuse
Centrify’s survey shows organizations are granting too much trust and privilege, opening themselves up to potential internal and externally-driven breaches initiated with compromised privileged access credentials. Photo credit: iStock Enterprises who are prioritizing privileged credential security are creating a formidable competitive advantage over their peers, ensuring operations won’t be interrupted by a breach. However, there’s […]
