Analysts state 80% of cyber security incidents are caused by credential misuse, with 54% of organisations using inflexible methods such as MS Excel to manage privileged access. Ineffective credential management can also result in the propagation of malware.
However, there is a fast and effective way of "mining"...
Security awareness training helps educate organizations and prepare its people to defend against today's most threatening cyberattacks. But, sometimes well-intentioned strategies can have unintended consequences. Leveraging a "one-size-fits-all" solution may work for maintaining compliance, but what happens when a...
With IT environments more complex and dynamic than ever, micro-segmentation is the clear choice for isolating communication flows and hardening your security posture. The right provider should help you accurately visualise and map all of your application flows and dependencies and then enable micro-segmentation...
Regardless of industry or function, every company relies on an ecosystem of other providers to deliver goods and services. Suppliers and vendors, partners and affiliates, and even customers - collectively, third parties - form a strongly connected network that, while essential for business, introduces hidden...
If your organization is in the early stages of your journey to find a vendor risk management (VRM) solution, a frequent challenge is that many teams are simultaneously educating themselves on what a vendor risk program necessitates while evaluating technology solutions to assist with the relevant decision-support...
Companies like yours spend millions of dollars each year assessing and mitigating threat vectors within the company. But when it comes to the management of third-party cyber risks, management and tracking typically follow archaic and highly manual processes. Despite its complexity, vendor risk management doesn't...
The old demarcation lines of cybersecurity responsibility have been erased. In this new landscape, risk surface is the unforeseen undercurrent of high velocity digital business.
"Risk Surface Management" is a revolutionary shift in third-party risk management. It's an approach to self-reporting on third-party risk...
You can't stop cyberattacks from happening altogether, but you can take proactive measures to better weather the storm and reduce the risk of damage. Among the keys to surviving a cyberattack is mitigating risk on the assets and the network layer. That includes knowing what and where your data resides in the network...
Hiring and keeping good IT/security practitioners can be tough, so once you've got good talent you'll need to work to keep them.
Download this eBook and learn ways to keep your security analysts happy by:
Getting your security tools in order;
Building a feedback loop to stop false positives;
Setting a tone for...
The 7th annual Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report for 2020 analyzes the data from security bullitens issued by Microsoft throughout 2019. Every Tuesday, Microsoft releases fixes for all vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products, and this report compiles these releases into a year-long overview, creating a holistic...
Understanding the true costs of building and operating a security operations center has more to do with the capability you'd like to field than the people you need to hire to run it 24x7.
Download this eBook and learn:
The different levels of SOC capabilities;
How to determine which level is right for your...
This report is based on a Forbes Insights and IBM survey of 353 executives across the globe, which reveals a significant disconnect between how executives view resilience and responsibility when it comes to the gray areas of their expanding technology ecosystems.
Download the report and learn why:
Only 42% of...
Third-party breaches remain a dominant security challenge for organizations, with over 63% of breaches linked to a third party. Clearly, both organizations and their third parties are wasting critical financial and human resources on programs that aren't optimized to help them reduce cyber risk in their shared...
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