A 2022 report on privileged user threats by Ponemon Institutes suggests that privileged user attacks skyrocketed by 44% in 2020, with the cost per attack at $15.38 million. With the colossal damage ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Settle is a seven time CIO and the author of two books on IT management. Privileged Access Management (PAM) broadly refers to ...

Over a third of government and enterprise users have been given privileged access despite not needing it, potentially exposing their organization to greater cyber-risk, according to Forcepoint. The ...

The insider threat has been a major concern of organizations in both the private and public sector ever since the notorious leak of millions of classified documents by the notorious former defense ...

Explores turning the browser into a policy enforcement point within a Zero Trust framework, covering governance, MFA, device ...

Privileged accounts, such as administrator, root, and service accounts, are common to all computerized networks. These accounts carry a great deal of power. It is, therefore, natural for hackers to ...

As global cybersecurity risks abound, multi-factor authentication (MFA) is one of the most effective ways to protect access and prevent breaches. While MFA has gained momentum over the past two years, ...

Privileged IT staffers literally holds the keys to the castle. Access to those keys that open the doors to critical operating system and application resources must be carefully managed and legally ...

Management and security, always a troublesome twosome, have reared their ugly heads yet again. This time, they’re causing problems for virtualization initiatives, quashing deployment plans while IT ...

Many of the largest and most infamous data breaches of recent years have a common root cause. Cyberattackers have exploited poorly secured privileged user accounts to steal or corrupt sensitive data, ...

Controlling the actions of privileged users is the cornerstone of just about every compliance regulation. I was speaking about the chances of this approach becoming a really effective approach to ...

All RIT people should read and understand the RIT Code of Conduct for Computer and Network Use and the RIT policy regarding Digital Copyright. All RIT users must ...