Privileged Account Management For Dummies, Thycotic Special Edition

Fast, easy read to get up to speed on Privileged Account Management (PAM) security basics

With so many recent high-profile breaches accomplished through the compromise of passwords on privileged accounts, it’s time all cyber security stakeholders got educated.

This Free Privileged Account Management for Dummies 24-page book gives you, your IT staff, and business stakeholders a practical understanding of privileged account management and its security implications.

  • What is a privileged account
  • Where do privileged accounts reside throughout the IT environment
  • How privileged accounts function
  • Risks associated with privileged accounts
  • How to best protect privileged accounts from hackers and malicious insider threats
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Don’t Overlook Your Email Archiving Systems

Today, business users need on-the-go access to all their critical data, which includes emails, documents and attachments. For IT administrators, striking the balance between productivity for users and compliance needs for the organization is necessary.

A September 2017 commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting shows 92% of business users believe easily finding emails and related documents using search functions is important or critical to the ability to do their job.

Download the study to discover more of Forrester Consulting’s important findings on the email archiving needs of modern business users—and how you can meet them.

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Email Security in a Zero Trust World

To tackle today’s cyber threats, IT security leaders must rethink traditional security strategies. Email security in particular has become a victim of its own success and requires a radical rethink, having played a key role in several high-profile security breaches.

Today’s threats, like spear-phishing, are designed to bypass traditional Secure Email Gateway defenses, often taking advantage of end users who are considered the weakest link in business email security armor. A zero-trust approach to email security is needed.

This white paper discusses how:

  • CISO’s should carefully assess email security as part of a strategic security review
  • IT Managers can evaluate the state of current email defenses and take tactical action to strengthen them
  • Security Administrators can deliver best-practice defense in depth for email
  • Organizations can remove a reliance on trust to more effectively protect information, their network and employees
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Ransomware is Increasing the Risks and Impact to Organizations

Cybercriminals constantly engage organizations in a game of leapfrog: system defenses improve, so malware searches for new holes. Recently, ransomware, which has been around since 1989, has been gaining momentum.

Download this Mimecast sponsored report to learn about this growing threat, its impact to organizations and the ways to help thwart an attack.

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Employee Social Network Password Practices a Major Workplace Risk

Millions of employees using social media accounts represent a major workplace risk if/when those accounts are compromised. Once hacked, a social network account can easily provide access to information that gives hackers access to other facets of users’ lives, such as their work computers and email accounts.

To make matters worse, large social networks don’t remind or make clear to users the risks associated with weak passwords, or never changing their passwords. In fact, new social network platforms allow for a single logon that is linked to multiple social media accounts so that users can avoid having to remember multiple passwords for multiple accounts.

This is why you should get the RSA Survey Report & Executive Summary now

  • You'll get important highlights from the RSA Survey key findings.
  • You'll get a great list of free, professional password security tools.
  • You'll learn details about the disconnect between security professionals and their own cybersecurity habits (and maybe some of yours too).
  • You'll get excellent recommendations on how you can protect your user and privileged account credentials by implementing proven password security best practices and using automated tools.
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State of PAM Annual Report

Benchmark Global Survey shows Privileged Account Management a top security priority but failing in enforcement

While 80% consider PAM security a high priority nearly two-thirds still rely on manual methods to manage privileged accounts and only one in ten have implemented an automated commercial solution.

The results are especially alarming when you consider that privileged account passwords and access are a prime target for hackers and one of the biggest cyber security risks for breaching the defenses of any organization.

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Black Hat 2016: Hacker Survey Report

Thycotic’s survey of hacker attendees at Black Hat 2016 in Las Vegas shows overwhelming support for data privacy among respondents. Yet, in a seeming contradiction of their own beliefs, nearly half said they would be willing to hack your password for a fee if asked by the FBI.

Read the full report to learn:

  • How hackers feel about data privacy and FBI cracking into the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone in March of 2016
  • How much hackers would demand to be paid to hack your phone for the FBI
  • The top systems hackers say you should protect now

Bottom line: more than 77% of Black Hat survey hackers believe no password is safe from hackers, or the government for that matter.

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Today’s Mainframes Are No Longer Secure…and It Impacts You More Than You’d Think

Read why you need to protect privileged account passwords on your IBM z Systems

Mainframe privileged accounts are prime targets for hackers, giving them complete access to your critical systems. Yet far too many organizations still have mainframe privileged accounts that are unknown, unmanaged, and unprotected.

Today’s Mainframes are No Longer Secure – and it Impacts You More than You’d Think

Read this Free Whitepaper to:

  • Understand why IBM z/OS privileged accounts pose a very real security risk
  • Learn best practices to protect IBM z System passwords from hackers and malicious insiders
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KingSlayer – A Supply Chain Attack

RSA Research investigated the source of suspsicious, observed beaconing thought to be associated with targeted malware. In the course of this tactical hunt for unidentified code, RSA discovered a sophisticated attack on a software supply-chain involving a Trojan inserted in otherwise legitimate software; software that is used typically used by enterprise system administrators. Get details of this attack as well as mitigation and detection strategies.
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Forrester Wave Security Analytics

The Forrester Wave™: Security Analytics Platforms, Q1 2017. In their 36-criteria evaluation of security analytics (SA) providers, Forrester identified the 11 most significant ones and researched, analyzed, and scored them. Download this report to see why RSA was named a Leader and how SA solutions enable security and risk professionals to detect, investigate and respond to cybersecurity threats.
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Security Visibility at Scale for Dummies

As security threats grow in scope and volume, network architects and business leaders increasingly face the need to ensure complete and timely security visibility down to the packet level. This book shows you how architecting a modern security visibility network infrastructure can help your business adapt to new threats, lengthen the usefulness of your current security system investments, and enhance uptime and availability to drive business assurance.

Inside…

  • See the entire threat landscape
  • Understand security visibility basics
  • Create deep packet flow visibility
  • Support both inline and out-of-band systems
  • Optimize packet flows
  • Explore security visibility use cases
  • Ask the right questions about visibility
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Guide To AV Replacement

It’s time to upgrade your organization’s legacy Antivirus (AV). Here is what you need to know before replacing your AV solution.

The Guide to AV Replacement provides in-depth information from leading security experts that will guide you through each phase of your decision-making process. From the critical elements you need to consider to how to evaluate and review solutions, you’ll get expert advice that can help you choose a security solution that best fits your organization’s requirements.

Before initiating a change from your current AV solution read this guide to learn:

  • How to plan an AV replacement project and the critical elements to consider
  • How to measure important factors such as protection, performance and time-to-value when reviewing AV replacement solutions
  • What prevalent technologies are available and what are the pros and cons of each?
  • How to measure the efficacy of a solution and what steps you should take to ensure you’re getting accurate results
  • Why you should consider evaluating CrowdStrike Falcon’s next-gen AV replacement and how it fulfills the criteria outlined in the guide
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Benefits of Using Bitdefender Video Testimonial

Migrate 20,000 endpoints in just 90 days! That was the daunting task facing Safe Systems, a leading MSP that needed to strengthen their endpoint security. After looking at many alternatives, they decided to upgrade to Bitdefender. Check out their story.
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What You Need To Know About Ransomware

Ransomware is one of the most prolific, profitable and fastest growing malware attack tools in the wild today. This Bitdefender White Paper will give you the details on what ransomware is all about and how Bitdefender addresses this threat better than any other vendor with patented technologies and techniques.
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