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 Managment 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...