28 December, 2017 |
Jeff Melnick
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...
12 December, 2017 |
Ryan Brooks
In a recent post, How to Mitigate the Risk of Employee Data Theft, we looked at employee data theft as one of the top insider threats that can jeopardize your organization’s cyber and information security. We talked about how you can minimize this risk by implementing best practices, such as...
7 December, 2017 |
Pierre Dehombreux
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...
14 November, 2017 |
Jeff Melnick
What are privileged accounts?
Privileged accounts are user accounts with extended permissions to access systems and data, such as the root account in Unix and Administrator accounts in Windows. Sometimes they are called “the keys to the kingdom” because a privileged account enables you do...
9 November, 2017 |
Jeff Melnick
In a previous blog post, “Privilege Abuse: Threat Alert,” we provided an overview of what privilege abuse is and why this threat is so serious. In today’s post, we will look at the problem from a different angle. We’ll examine four notorious data breaches caused by privileged account abuse...
