Blockchain distributed-ledger technology is opening up new frontiers for financial services and other companies, but security specialists are pushing for early action on both blockchain and related account-management technologies to avoid the punishing security breaches being seen due to Internet of Things (IoT) shortcomings.
David Braue | 25 Oct | Read more
A range of mobile apps are leaking back-end credentials that allow anybody to access millions of user records, a new study has found. This should come as little surprise given the sloppy approach taken by many organisations to securing privileged accounts, one analysis warns. Little wonder potential government cloud adopters are concerned about cloud-providers' lack of transparency.
David Braue | 23 Nov | Read more
Fully 40 percent of Windows servers have privileged accounts that could be used by attackers to gain unimpeded access to the majority of other network hosts, CyberArk has reported after an audit of thousands of Windows hosts running on a range of different corporate networks.
David Braue | 13 Nov | Read more
Even though takeover of privileged accounts is recognised as being by far the most difficult type of attack to deal with, more than half of IT-security and C-level executives believe they can detect a security breach within days and nearly half believe they can stop attackers from breaking into their network altogether.
David Braue | 02 Oct | Read more