By Louis Columbus on November 29, 2019
When an experienced hacker can gain access to a company’s accounting and financial systems in 7 minutes or less after obtaining privileged access credentials, according to Ponemon, it’s time to get focused on Zero Trust Security. 2019 is on its way to being a record year for ransomware attacks, which grew 118% in Q1 of […]
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By Louis Columbus on July 22, 2019
90% of security professionals have witnessed security incidents stemming from the theft of credentials, according to a recent MobileIron study conducted by IDG. 86% of CIO, CISO and Security VPs would abandon password authentication if they could. Another survey by EMA found that mobile devices secured by biometric authentication methods present the best option for […]
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By Louis Columbus on May 3, 2019
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 […]
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By Louis Columbus on December 27, 2018
There’s been a staggering 298.4% growth in the reported number of patient records breached as a result of insider-wrongdoing this year alone according to Protenus. The total disclosed number of breached patient records has soared from 1.1M in Q1 2018 to 4.4M in Q3 2018 alone, 680K of which were breached by insiders. There were 117 disclosed health […]
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