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Local admin rights for Developers: Balancing the scales between basic necessity and security risk

Developers work with a variety of tools in the CI/CD pipeline and often experiment with a lot of things...

Privileged Access Management Best Practices for Unparalleled Security

Privileged accounts are the keys to your kingdom. Protecting and managing access to these sensitive...

Endpoint Privilege Management: Filling the gaps in Intune (Part 2)

Intune EPM (Now Microsoft Entra) helps organizations manage admin rights in a very basic manner. The ...

Endpoint Privilege Management: The local admin rights dilemma (Part 1)

The debate over giving unrestricted admin rights is a constant struggle between IT staff and employees in ...

2013 Target Data Breach: 10 Years On, but the Same Threat Pattern Looms Large!

Hackers targeted the low-hanging fruit, launched an unsophisticated attack, and carried out a massive breach..

Password management best practices: Practice or Pay!

Passwords leaked from data breaches in the past continue to cause ripples in 2023, even amidst organizations with modern...
 

Identity thefts and data breaches - The aftermath of privileged access mismanagement

Cybersecurity is a growing concern for businesses of all sizes, as advanced hackers and cybercriminals constantly seek new...
 

Spate of cyberattacks rock the land down under

As we move close to the end of the year, the horrors of Halloween continue to haunt the land down under. Media channels are...
 

Make this Thanksgiving a memorable one. Treat yourself to a surprise!

Participate in the Securden Thanksgiving 2022 campaign. All you have to do is simply tag fellow sysadmins and other designated...
 

The Spooky Season is here early! Recent data breaches re-emphasize the significance of password security

As Halloween is dedicated to remembering the martyred, organizations falling victim to data breaches remind us of the importance...
 

We're at GITEX, Dubai. Come, meet us!

Are you planning to participate in GITEX, Dubai? If yes, this is a great opportunity to meet our product experts and get a personalized...
 

May God defend me from my friends

As stories of trusted insiders causing information security breaches continue to unfold, it’s time organizations woke up to...
 

Ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline: Executing cyberattacks, now a child's play!

With the easy availability billions of compromised credentials on the dark web, and the practice of password reuse...
 

Local Admin Accounts Management: Eliminating Admin Rights and Controlling Applications (Part 3)

One of the most effective approaches to reducing risks is eliminating the local admin accounts altogether and...
 

Looking for a Passwordstate alternative?

Passwordstate, an enterprise password manager developed by Click Studios, suffered a supply chain attack between April 20 and April 22. The company...
 

Local Admin Accounts Management: Microsoft LAPS Vs. PAM (Part-2)

In the previous post, we dealt with the importance of local admin accounts, the associated security risks, and the need for managing them properly...
 

Top 10 password policy recommendations for system administrators in 2021

Passwords are omnipresent in our personal and business digital environments. An average person has at least a dozen passwords to remember for various accounts, and it is not...
 

Local Admin Accounts - Security Risks and Best Practices (Part 1)

We are all too familiar with the local administrator account that gets created automatically when installing a Windows computer. The local admin is all...
 

Poor password security practices cause massive security breaches

Weak passwords, password reuse, password sharing, hard-coded credentials, lax measures to storing credentials are rampant even in big enterprises...
 

Remote work, pirated software, and local admin rights: A deadly cocktail
 

It is often said that the endpoints are the most vulnerable part of the network as they are increasingly becoming an entry...
 

Securden vs. Competitors: A Story of Point-and-Click Simplicity vs. Complex, Illusory Superiority

The story of how a large government agency eliminated admin privileges on endpoints and implemented on-demand application elevation...

Florida Water Treatment Plant Hack: A Wake-Up Call to Strengthen Basic Security Measures, Password Hygiene

One of the worst fears of humanity came true last week. Ever since cyberattacks started increasing in variety affecting organizations of all...

Passwords and their management: A tale of two decades

Last week, I came across an interesting research on cybersecurity practices during the past decade (2010-20) by Jean-Christophe Gaillard...

Windows Server Privilege Escalation: Security Issues and Best Practices

One of the most difficult aspects of security in a Windows environment is keeping visibility to and control over Windows privileges...

A hacker’s prescription to prevent ransomware attacks

Perpetrators of CWT ransomware attack recommend password rotation, admin rights removal, and application control as tips to prevent attacks...

Application Password Management Using APIs

There is arguably not a more important topic in the technology world today than security. Security can no longer be an afterthought for organizations serious...