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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

End-To-End Visibility: The Foundation of Business-Driven Security

Although the challenge of securing modern computing environments may be daunting, it is solvable with an approach we call Business-Driven Security: the ability of an organization to comprehensively and rapidly link security with business context to detect and respond effectively and protect what matters most.

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.

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

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.

7 Best Practices for SMB Virtualization

Virtualization offers a wealth of benefits for Small to Medium Businesses (SMBs) — from enhanced agility and security to greater operational efficiency, stronger disaster recovery and more. Discover how to virtualize your data center.

Big Data Analytics Market Study

Based on survey methodology, this second Big Data Analytics Market Study from Dresner Advisory focuses upon the combination of analytical solutions within the Hadoop ecosystem, adding some new criteria and exploring changing market dynamics and user perceptions and plans.

You’ll also learn why Pentaho ranked among the top three Big Data Analytic vendors in the areas of infrastructure, data access, search, machine learning, and supported distributions.

Read the market study to learn:

Top infrastructure choices, machine learning technologies and vendors for big data
Ratings of technologies and platforms used in big data analytics
Big data trends by industries, functions, and geographical regions
The most popular big data use cases

*Pentaho, a Hitachi Group company, helps organizations harness value from all their data. Our open enterprise-class platform provides end-to-end data preparation, integration, and analytics.

Konzepte für den Erfolg mit Big Data

Erfahren Sie, wie Sie mit vier gängigen Big Data-Szenarios erfolgreich sein können: Data Warehouse-Optimierung, optimierte Datenaufbereitung, 360-Grad-Ansicht von Kunden, Monetarisierung von Daten.

Folgende Themen werden behandelt:

Wie Sie Data Warehouse-Kosten reduzieren und die Leistung verbessern
Wie mit einem agilen Datenintegrationsprozess die Entwicklungszeit für mapReduce um das 15-Fache gegenüber herkömmlichen Programmier- und Skripterstellungsverfahren reduziert werden kann
Wie durch die Verknüpfung verschiedener operativer und Transaktions-Datenquellen zur Erstellung von On-Demand-Analyseansichten neue Wachstumsmöglichkeiten erschlossen werden können
Wie durch die Verwendung interner Daten hochwertige Datensets für externe Kunden bereitgestellt werden können

Plans d’action pour une mise en oeuvre réussie des Big Data

Découvrez comment réussir avec quatre scénarios Big Data courants : Optimiser l’entrepôt de données, Optimiser une « raffinerie » de données, Avoir une vue à 360° des clients et Monétiser mes données.

Sommaire :

Comment réduire le coût d’entreposage des données et améliorer les performances ?
Comment la souplesse d’intégration des données permet-elle de diviser par 15 le temps de développement mapReduce par rapport aux processus manuels classiques de codage et d’écriture de scripts ?
En quoi le mélange de plusieurs sources de données opérationnelles et transactionnelles permettant de créer, à la demande, une vue analytique de vos principaux points de contact client vous aide-t-il à réduire la perte de clients et à identifier de nouvelles opportunités de revenus ?
Comment est-il possible d’utiliser des données internes pour proposer à des clients externes des jeux de données à forte valeur ajoutée ?

TDWI Best Practices Report: Improving Data Preparation for Business Analytics: (Sponsored by Pentaho*)

Want to get the data you need faster? If you’re trying to automate and scale your data preparation processes, this TDWI Best Practices Report is a must-read.

The TDWI report also examines how self-service data preparation will affect your operations, including how self-service data prep fits with visual analytics, data discovery, BI tools, and Hadoop.

Read the TDWI best practices report to learn how to:

Establish smarter, more scalable, and better coordinated data prep processes
Reduce the burden on IT through self-service, while ensuring data is appropriately governed
Make better data-driven decisions
Use the best of old and new worlds, leveraging data warehouses and Hadoop at the same time

*Pentaho, a Hitachi Group company, helps organizations harness value from all their data. Our open enterprise-class platform provides end-to-end data preparation, integration, and analytics.

Quantifying ROI: The Business Case for IoT

Organizations today are under tremendous pressure to deliver a higher quality of products and services at lower costs, and to do so using existing resources. Any expenditure companies do make to help them achieve this goal is expected to deliver a measurable, hard-dollar ROI – and to deliver it quickly.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is creating new opportunities for companies to enhance their products, gain business insights and differentiate their offerings. This whitepaper defines an ROI model for building a business case and tracking results related to IoT initiatives.

Company Overview

PTC has the most robust Internet of Things technology in the world. In 1986 we revolutionized digital 3D design, and in 1998 were first to market with Internet-based PLM. Now our leading IoT and AR platform and field-proven solutions bring together the physical and digital worlds to reinvent the way you create, operate, and service products.

Mastering the Six Levels of IoT Success

The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing how businesses make profits from products. Hundreds of success stories show how organizations with mature IoT capabilities are generating new, recurring revenue streams through efficient connected-product development and delivery.

But getting there is a process of change, both technically and tactically. To help organizations understand the requirements of change, we have developed a connected-product maturity model. It’s based on best practices gleaned from hundreds of engagements over more than 10 years with product manufacturers from nearly every industry.

Company Overview

PTC has the most robust Internet of Things technology in the world. In 1986 we revolutionized digital 3D design, and in 1998 were first to market with Internet-based PLM. Now our leading IoT and AR platform and field-proven solutions bring together the physical and digital worlds to reinvent the way you create, operate, and service products.

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.

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.

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.