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Month: December 2017

5 Ways to Reduce the Risk of Employee Theft of Confidential Information

Departing employees can be a big source of data leakage for organizations; in fact, there are at least 5 reasons why departing employees can be a real pain. So we need to take a closer look into how to reduce this risk. Of course, as soon as an employee leaves the company — whether because … Continued

Secure Privileged Access with ESAE Model

Ensuring that systems are patched and that defense-in-depth security protections are working effectively, top the list of concerns for IT departments. But despite these efforts, security breaches are still on the rise because operational issues are commonly ignored. Best practice dictates that privileged AD groups should remain empty most of the time. In practice, that … Continued

7 Tips to Avoid Data Theft by Ex-Employees

By Pierre Dehombreux, Director of Information Technology, Whiteriver Unified School District Disabling the user accounts of fired employees right after their dismissal does not guarantee they won’t break through your defenses. For example, they can bribe friendly and perhaps sympathetic former colleagues — who are still current employees with legitimate data access — to help them … Continued

How to Detect Privileged Account Abuse

This post continues the series in which we discuss the threat of privilege abuse. Previously, we talked about what you should know about the threat of privileged users and three key things you can do now to start to gain the control you need over privileged users. In this post, we are going to talk … Continued