Nowadays, enterprises of all sizes and types rely on surveillance cameras for physical security of their premises. With cyber-crimes looming large, effectively securing sensitive data has emerged a big challenge for all organizations – enterprises, government agencies and military establishments. Of late, internal threats seem to be far more alarming as many of the reported security incidents have been caused by trusted third-parties and malicious insiders having authorized or unauthorized privileged access to the IT resources.
Dropbox hack unveils the absolute need for Password Managers!
In the aftermath of the data breach at Linkedin last month in which over 6.4 million hashed passwords were stolen, we had highlighted the implications of such password compromises in general: “How does a data breach in one site affect end users? It is quite common for users to use the same login credentials in multiple sites – social media and other applications. Still worse, some users tend to use the same password for all accounts – right from email accounts, social media to banking, brokerage and finance accounts.
How do you manage emergency access to IT resources when an administrator is away?
Assume one of the administrators in your IT department happens to be away from office and an emergency situation arises when you need to access some of the IT resources owned / controlled by that administrator.
Data Breach at LinkedIn: Time to Seriously Consider Using a Password Manager!
Just in the last post, we were discussing how even some of the world’s mightiest enterprises were falling prey to hackers. Now comes the bad news about the security breach in LinkedIn! Reports claim that over 6.46 million hashed passwords stolen from LinkedIn have been published on a Russian forum. In a blog post , LinkedIn has confirmed the security breach, but remains silent on the magnitude: “We can confirm that some of the passwords that were compromised correspond to LinkedIn accounts. We are continuing to investigate this situation”, says the post
Success Story: Netherland’s Top Research University Consolidates & Streamlines Privileged Password Management Processes using Password Manager…
Wageningen UR, an institution of international repute in the sphere of Life Sciences deals with a huge collection of intellectual property, scientific literature, confidential data, research records, details about the staff and students and a host of other sensitive information. Needless to say, the IT department of Wageningen UR is tasked with the challenge of safe upkeep of disparate IT infrastructure, combating cyber-attacks, ensuring information security and network availability. Manual Password Management Processes like maintaining privileged passwords on paper in a safe proved highly inefficient and drove users to create individual password management solutions at Wageningen UR.
Password Manager Pro is worth every penny, say our customers!
There can’t be a better finish to an eventful year.