It seems the bigger the brand, the bigger the challenge for external threats to win brownie points amongst their peers. External threats are taking up the challenge to break through the perimeter and target highly prized privileged accounts that often exist on networks in unprotected Word or Excel documents. With access to these accounts a compromise becomes that much easier.
Despite global IT security spending peaking in 2016 at $81billion which represents a 7.9 percent increase on 2015, local government organisations in the UK have seen a 14 percent increase in the number of reported data breaches. Local government was second only to the UK health sector when measured by the total number of reported data breaches.
"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
As enterprises embrace a mix of cloud and on-premises deployments of key IT assets, they are using PAM for hybrid cloud security.
Are the ICO and health service taking data breaches seriously?
Well, frankly, no. And here's why.
