Your business likely requires certain users to have privileged access to your cloud resources. This means they can basically have free reign to access all manner of company data, workflows, security ...

Bottom Line: One of the primary factors motivating employees to sacrifice security for speed are the many frustrations they face, attempting to re-authenticate who they are so they can get more work ...

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 ...

Many organizations do a reasonably good job at limiting access to data and systems for their general user population. When it comes to privileged access, however, most simply attempt to limit who and ...

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 ...

Privileged access. Privileged users. These words should make us all uncomfortable at this point. While IT, management and users are all bombarded with and distracted by daily news of new malware ...

These days, when it comes to stealing your data, cyber-criminals aren’t worried about bypassing your perimeter security and firewalls because they’ve found another way in, using rather simple tactics.

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 ...

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 ...

Bottom line: One of the primary factors motivating employees to sacrifice security for speed are the many frustrations they face, attempting to re-authenticate who they are so they can get more work ...