New wave of cyber-attacks on banks lend credence to the belief that insider threat is getting complex and cyber-criminals are increasingly targeting to siphon-off the login credentials of employees and administrative passwords of IT resources. It is termed as the ‘massive 21 st century bank heist’. A worldwide gang of cyber-criminals in multiple cities drained ATMs to the tune of $45 million in a matter of few hours last week
John and his Android adventure
John is back! For those of you who don’t remember John or haven’t met him yet – John, is an IT administrator who had trouble managing iOS devices until he found Desktop Central . This time around, John, akin to our Hollywood hero, faces a new challenge managing Android devices
Log Monitoring and Network Operations
Imagine every event occurring in the network/devices is recorded in real time, including the abnormal events. What else would you want? Obviously, a convenient way to scan through this information or capture the relevant ones online
HIPAA Omnibus Rule: New Penalty system with steeper fines
The passage of HIPAA Omnibus Rule heralds a new era of accountability for organizations that fall under the category of ‘business associates’ to a healthcare provider. The new rule has made some sweeping changes to the penalty system applied to each HIPAA violation category.
AP Twitter account hack: Social media proves to be the most convenient platform for hackers!
Just a couple of weeks ago, we published this blog “ Beware! Your social media password could let your business down ! ” and now comes the shocking news about the hack AP’s Twitter account, which created a big embarrassment to the world’s largest and most trusted news cooperative, besides causing panic waves in the Wall Street. The overwhelming popularity of social media attracts the attention of cyber-criminals, who are looking for easy ways to harvest online identities. In fact, the job of cyber-criminals has become a lot easier in this ‘social media era’.
Why You Need to Integrate IT Operations and IT Service Management
In a previous article, I wrote about the need for application-aware network performance management (AA-NPM) tools. With tools that can manage the entire range of infrastructure and applications, we can manage the delivery of services more effectively and responsively — which is better for an organization, better for IT, better for everyone
ManageEngine Global PR update
Here is a collection of some of the coverage we have received in the past two weeks from various publications and regions. How can your business safeguard its data? Mathivanan’s (director of product management) article on Data Security in The Guardian – one of UK’s oldest and best regarded newspapers. The Guardian’s website attracts nearly four million hits every month, including around 50,000 visits to the Media Network portal, where this opinion piece sits.
HIPAA Omnibus Rule: Should your organization’s IT department fret over it? — Part II
In the first part of this 2-part blog , we saw the update about the HIPAA Omnibus Rule and the deadline for compliance (September 23rd). Now, let’s analyze the before & after of this new rule, and if it really applies to you. (Check out the examples given for better understanding.) The Scene Before HIPAA Omnibus… Before this law was enacted, it was the responsibility of healthcare providers (hospitals, clearinghouses, insurance companies, etc.) to report to HHS about any breach into the protected health information (PHI) that they store. And they had to comply with the detailed HIPAA Privacy Rule and HIPAA Security Rule in order to show that the PHI had been properly safeguarded, and not been exposed or manipulated.
Reverting Support for Erroneous Patch KB2823324
Microsoft update KB2823324 that was released this month is causing blue screen on computers has been withdrawn by Microsoft.
Desktop Central- a Genie for your Mac Patch Management
As a software vendor, We understand that you are looking for a Genie in the lamp who can solve your Mac patch management challenges. If you are reading this then you have hit the lucky lamp