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Government agencies are becoming prime targets for cyber attackers, they hold data for ransom. Whatever the rationale of the cyber attackers, it is imperative that government agencies need to pull up their socks to understand the gravity of the situation, Take the Baltimore data breach which occurred twice in less than a year. Large corporations […]

Technology providers are present worldwide, but to know who is the best among the vendors is a challenging task for analysts, and for organizations to choose, as each vendor offering will have some features same, some missing and some features added to their product offerings. So how do we figure out who are the leaders […]

Data is everywhere and so are the data breaches. With increasing number data breaches every day. The organization takes lots of measures to secure their data and network. Still data breach is increasing day by day. Recently in the last week of July, Los Angeles (LA) police department informed its officers, and applicants who wanted to […]

As the country is bracing itself for the 2020 census, the census bureau is deploying security measures of two-factor authentication, and encryption to protect potential leaks in data.  However, a few govt agencies opine that the census 2020 will employ new digital technologies like cloud, mobile computing, which might face cybersecurity risks – an attractive […]

Application programming interface (API) being the hidden backbone of applications. Developers rely on these API’s to communicate with another software programs or applications. According to a survey findings indicate 69% of organizations expose their API to public and partners, wherein an average of 363 different API’s is being used. Nowadays threats and vulnerabilities are increasing, […]

Cyber security threats are evolving and organizations face major security challenges like alert overload, increasing number of disparate security tools, and struggling to report their operational performance.   To manage all of it proved costly, time consuming and complex as well.  In the late 90’s there was the evolution of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM […]

If you learned about a potential hazard in your office — let’s say a slippery floor — that threatened the well-being of your employees, you would act to address the issue immediately right? You put out a “CAUTION WET FLOOR” sign, and save the day… no one gets hurt… Yay! However, there are just as […]

Administrative accounts are the #1 security vulnerability for corporate information systems. If access to these privileged accounts (domain admin, local admin, service accounts, etc.) is not properly secured and credentials fall into the wrong hands, bad actors can wreak havoc on your organization. And it’s not just external threats that you have to be weary […]

What is the single greatest point of vulnerability when it comes to information systems security? If you guessed “identity and access”, then you are correct! When you look at the largest security breaches over the past several years (Equifax, Yahoo, Target, Anthem, Uber, etc.), you will notice that they were all the result of stolen […]

Literally about a hundred million of data has been stolen and exposed in the year 2018. Top Companies like Facebook, Under Armour, Exactis, Aadhar and many more has fallen prey to the hacking attacks. For any business data breach is obviously a disaster. Even in the latest Google survey it is found that 52% of […]

Active Directory (AD) is a directory service that Microsoft developed for Windows domain networks and is included in most Windows Server operating systems as a set of processes and services. An AD domain controller authenticates and authorizes all users and computers in a Windows domain type network—assigning and enforcing security policies for all computers and […]