Cybersecurity is a growing issue for businesses worldwide, as the data they handle becomes more and more significant and the threat of a breach more imminent. Nowhere is this challenge more evident than in the Retail sector, where systems are widespread and consumer data handling is constant.
Confidence in cloud security is growing. According to the Ponemon Institute’s 2018 Global Cloud Data Security Study, the percent of IT managers who feel that it is difficult to secure confidential or sensitive information in the cloud has fallen from 60% in 2016 to 49% today. That trend notwithstanding, many in the industry still feel cloud security is difficult to achieve. The same study reveals that 71% of IT managers believe is more difficult to apply conventional information security in the cloud computing environment, while 51% think it is more difficult to control or restrict end-user access.
Imagine a hacker is lurking inside your network. Indeed, it’s likely a few malicious actors are already inside your domain despite your best efforts to keep them away. Now, imagine the hacker stealing the credentials of a trusted system administrator. With the back-end access permitted to this privileged user, imagine the kind of damage the hacker can do.
Cyber resilience refers to how well an organization can recover from a cyber incident. Many factors contribute to success with cyber resilience, but any attempt to achieve cyber resilience should prominently feature Privileged Access Management (PAM).
While SPAM email has been flooding our inboxes for many years now, what do we really know about who’s sending them and where they come from? And how is SPAM impacted by the upcoming – and increasing – data privacy and security regulations states are implementing worldwide?
