The Breach Prevention Playbook

Identity and access management (IAM) – which exists to ensure that the right people can get to the right resources and that you can prove they are doing it right – is the most effective, and proactive, tool in the fight against breaches. Once the basics discussed earlier are satisfied, IAM will provide the biggest security bang for the buck. After all, a breach is nothing more than the wrong person getting their hands on something they shouldn’t, and you don’t find out about it until it’s too late.

This ebook will address various facets of IAM, how they play in breach prevention, and some detail on technology solutions from One Identity.

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Infographic: Orca Security 2020 State of Public Cloud Security Report

Neglected workloads and authentication issues are the weak links attackers are looking for -- almost half of organizations have internet-facing workloads containing secrets and credentials, which poses a risk of lateral movement. The security of internal workloads is much worse than frontline services which increases the risk of lateral movement once a frontline service is loaded. Follow the exploitation path in this infographic to discover how most large breaches happen.

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Report: The Orca Security 2020 State of Public Cloud Security

The world of cybersecurity isn’t fair. Security teams need to secure everything, but attackers need only find one weak link. For most organizations, cloud workload security is dependent upon the installation and maintenance of security agents across all assets. This rarely happens, as this report shows.

Download the Orca Security 2020 State of Public Cloud Security Report to learn:

  •     Benchmark your public cloud security posture against your peers
  •     The weak links and exploitation paths attackers are looking for
  •     The most common authentication issues hiding inside public cloud estates
  •     4 key recommendations to avoid a major breach

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Article: Orca Security Research Finds Public Cloud Environments Rife with Neglected Workloads, Authentication Issues, and Lateral Movement Risk

For most organizations, cloud workload security is dependent upon the installation and maintenance of security agents across all assets. However, IT security teams are not always informed of cloud deployments, so this lack of visibility results in missed vulnerabilities and attack vectors.

While public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) keep their platforms secure, customers are still responsible for securing the workloads, data, and processes they run inside the cloud – just as they do in their on-prem world. Such shared responsibility poses a serious challenge due to the speed and frequency of public cloud deployments.

Orca Security’s 2020 State of Public Cloud Security Report analyzed data from more than two million scans of 300,000 public cloud assets running on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Scanned accounts represented Orca’s customer base across numerous industries including financial services, professional services, travel, cloud computing, online marketplaces, entertainment, real estate, and more. Learn more about key findings from this article.

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Next-Gen Privileged Access Management Solutions

Before there were privileged access management (PAM) solutions, it seemed that everyone was given access to privileged accounts with little regard for who had access, when they had access and what they did with that access. As security breaches started to rise and compliance regulations were written, it was obvious that manual processes and home-grown approaches to privileged access management solutions weren’t enough.

Why make the investment to next-gen PAM? After we briefly cover the history of first-gen and next-gen PAM solutions, we will give you five reasons to consider purchasing next-gen PAM solutions:

•   Reason 1: Easy to deploy
•   Reason 2: Transparent and frictionless
•   Reason 3: Operations- and automation-ready
•   Reason 4: Scale and transform with your business
•   Reason 5: An identity-centered approach to PAM.

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Security Starts Here – Privileged Access Management

Unfortunately we can’t control the activities of our administrators with an invisible Vader-like grip. And if these permissions fall into the wrong hands, even the ‘ultimate power in the universe’ of can’t save us. The threat of a security incident or critical error is very real, and it’s something that auditors are focused on. After all, some damage can be done through a standard user account, but the potential damage is much greater if the compromised account has ‘superuser’ access rights, as demonstrated in this news report excerpt.

The One Identity family of solutions includes each of the capabilities discussed in this report. It includes the breadth to cover not only your AD-centered needs but also identity governance and administration and privileged access management regardless of the location of resources – on-prem, in the cloud, or hybrid. One Identity is different from most IAM vendors, because it offers the business-centric, modular and integrated approach that has been so elusive in legacy solutions and offers the breadth missing in AD, IGA and PAM point solutions.

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Get ahead of your next security breach – 5 Steps to mitigate the risks of privileged accounts

Privileged accounts are a necessity in any enterprise IT environment, since they enable administrators to manage the environment. But as news reports constantly remind us, granting privileged access increases the risk of a security breach, no matter what industry your organization represents. However, your organization does not have to become the next statistic.

By taking the five concrete steps outlined in this paper, you can help protect your organization from the risks inherent in privileged accounts.

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Is Biometrics the future of security?

One of the first things that every IT security professional need to know is that there are no “silver bullets” in this field. Defense in depth is one of the oldest IT security concepts. Its main point is that “layered security mechanisms increase security of the system as a whole. If an attack causes one security mechanism to fail, other mechanisms may still provide the necessary security to protect the system. Behavioral biometrics methods, such as keystroke dynamics or mouse movement analysis are ideal additional layers of defense. Besides the usual preventive security systems, such as firewalls or security doors, enterprises can introduce these solutions easily, without subjecting their employees to obtrusive analyses. More importantly, these provide results in real- time, able to monitor the activities of users continuously and accurately enough to avoid false alerts.

One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Analytics integrates data from our session management solution, with a variety of logs and contextual data points. Our thirteen algorithms scrutinize seventeen behavioral characteristics generating user behavior profiles for each individual privileged user that are continually adjusted using machine learning.

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The Breach Prevention Playbook

Identity and access management (IAM) – which exists to ensure that the right people can get to the right resources and that you can prove they are doing it right – is the most effective, and proactive, tool in the fight against breaches. Once the basics discussed earlier are satisfied, IAM will provide the biggest security bang for the buck. After all, a breach is nothing more than the wrong person getting their hands on something they shouldn’t, and you don’t find out about it until it’s too late.

This ebook will address various facets of IAM, how they play in breach prevention, and some detail on technology solutions from One Identity.

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SSL Insight for Healthcare – Because prevention is better than the cure

In this webinar, you will learn about the threat landscape the healthcare industry is facing. The healthcare industry holds some of the most important sensitive data, and with such large volume of information, it has become a large target of recent cyber attacks.

This presentation goes into detail about the kinds of strategies the industry employs to prevent these attacks, and ultimately shows how A10 can surmount the challenges and deploy a centralized management solution that allows full visibility into any deployment.

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The comprehensive guide to ransomware protection and recovery

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The rise of ransomware has become a crisis that has crippled organizations world-wide. New strains of ransomware are on the rise, and with more remote employees the risks and exposure are higher than ever before.

Reliable backup and recovery are a crucial line of defense against ransomware. Having secure backup images of critical business data and applications allows companies to roll back in time to recover applications and data before the point of ransomware infection.

Learn about these 5 steps to protect from and limit the impact of ransomware:

  1.   Identifying and automating data protection for key business assets
  2.   Protecting backup environment with immutable data
  3.   Detecting early threats and potential risks
  4.   Responding proactively to prevent contamination and threat permeation
  5.   Recovering data quickly with flexible recovery options

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Zero Trust Whitepaper

Modern cyberattacks are not limited to just network intrusion from the outside. Internal threat actors can often be found at the center of sophisticated attacks.

The Zero Trust model, based on the simple principle of “trust nobody”, defines rules which enhance the security of networks against attacks, whether they are initiated from the outside or within. However, with the rise of encryption of internet traffic, it is becoming increasingly difficult to implement the Zero Trust model in an effective way.

In this white paper, readers will learn about modern cyber threats, what the Zero Trust model is and how it can be used to protect users and data against such attacks, the role of visibility in the implementation of Zero Trust and how TLS decryption is essential for the implementation of a fool proof Zero Trust strategy.

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The State of Email Security 2020

Global business is interspersed with a diversity of industrial sectors, united by a single, common communication thread that is key to any business: email connectivity.

At the close of 2019, many IT and IT security decision makers were planning to bolster their security posture with protections at the email gateway, within their organizations to protect employees and customers, and beyond their organizations’ four walls to uphold brand trust. These protections are still underway; in fact, they are more critical than ever.

At the same time, comprehensive data from Mimecast Threat Center indicates a severely negative impact to businesses in the first half of 2020, and experts predict we’ll see these attacks for months to come. Threat actors are relying heavily on impersonation and brand exploitation to take advantage of the uncertainty during the global COVID-19 pandemic.

The usual email and web security defenses are no longer good enough; to prevent and protect your business against threat actors now and in the future, it’s critical to integrate security awareness training as well as to protect your online brand.

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Mapping of GDPR, CCPA, and 23 NYCRR 500

Mapping of GDPR, CCPA, and 23 NYCRR 500A comprehensive list of essential network security controls mapped to GDPR, CCPA, and 23 NYCRR 500 requirements.

  • Inventory of Authorized and Unauthorized Devices
  • Continuous Vulnerability Assessment and Remediation
  • Maintenance, Monitoring and Analysis of Audit Logs
  • Secure Configurations for Network Devices
  • And more...
  • Regulatory compliance requirements are always being updated and are difficult to interpret. Our FireMon experts have identified the essential network security controls and how they map to GDPR, CCPA, and 23 NYCRR 500 requirements.

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    eBook: Debunking 4 Myths of Policy Compliance

    Debunk the Myths. Get Compliant.

    These claims have been widely spread so it’s easy to believe they’re true. But the fact is they are wrong—and they can waste your valuable resources, time and budget.

    “Debunking 4 Common Myths of Security Policy Compliance” shows you the truth behind these common myths:

  • Compliance is just rules and access control
  • Compliance is all about the audit
  • “Just block access” is the go-to answer
  • Real-time visibility is impossible
  • Get the truth – download “Debunking 4 Common Myths of Security Policy Compliance” today!

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