Tag: Privileged account management

No matter how strong your IT infrastructure security measures are, data breaches do happen. One of the most striking examples of a data breach is the US Air Force breach, which resulted in 100,000  lost investigation records due to file corruption. Unfortunately, neither investigation...

Tighter data protection regulations have forced businesses to put data security at the top of their priority list. However most companies still lack a strong cybersecurity culture among their employees. In fact, a recent paper by Osterman Research reports that less than half (42%) of organizations...

Many organizations struggle to secure their systems because their Active Directory is already compromised. AD is usually compromised by insiders or successful attacks on them. So how to keep environment protected even when a privileged your account got hacked? Microsoft Windows Server 2016 has...

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...

Why is it difficult to control the activity of privileged users? In a recent survey, 34% of respondents admitted to sharing passwords or accounts with their coworkers. Sharing credentials is a potentially risky activity, which may result in data breaches and system downtime. These risks are...

Below is an English translation of a product review of NetWrix Identity Management Suite. This was originally posted by Damir Dizdarevic in his blog last month. It was also published in the local Bosnian-Herzegovinian IT community on the Info.ba site. We are always delighted and proud to see IT...

While Windows Server is considered to be secure out-of-the-box, like any part of your IT infrastructure, it needs to be patched, monitored and configured to ensure that it is not exposed for a targeted attack. Let's go through some of the tools and best practices that can help you keep Windows...

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 things ordinary users can’t, such...

Privileged Access Management (PAM) is a new feature in Windows Server 2016 that can secure environments even in cases where AD is already compromised. In this blog, I’ll describe the architecture requirements for setting up PAM solutions. Many organizations struggle to secure their systems...

The US Government reportedly has evidence that the Sony hack in November 2014 was carried out using stolen domain administrator credentials, and while at the time of writing there has been no official confirmation, it’s conceivable that this could be the case. Windows domain administrator...