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5 Shocking Insights into the Social Network Habits of Security Professionals
Hacking social media accounts has never been easier. Attackers take advantage of poor password hygiene and usually hijack an account and hold it for ransom. It’s difficult to get the real picture, but according to Facebook, accounts are hacked 600,000 times a day. And even worse, 80% of all cyber security attacks involve a weak or stolen password.
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The Tide is Turning for Privileged Account Management and Security
July 14th, 2017
CyberArk’s latest preliminary earning report and investor reactions show they’re starting to lose sight on what the market is looking for. For years CyberArk has been the biggest and, in many cases, the only player in the Privileged Account Management space. When you’re one of the first to market, it gives you a lot of…
Demystifying the EU General Data Protection Regulation – Let’s BUST the Myths
July 10th, 2017
Yes, you’ve all heard about it. Many companies have been raising the alarm about GDPR for months now, all offering protection and silver bullets to solve anything and everything to do with GDPR—all you have to do is install this one box. Right! It’s caused a lot of confusion and many questions, and organizations have…
SysAdmin Day 2017 is almost here! Choose your bumper sticker now.
July 7th, 2017
Join us in celebrating the best day of the year—System Administrator Appreciation Day 2017! The official SysAdmin Day day isn’t until the 28th – the last Friday of July. But we want to make sure that every sysadmin gets a little thank you from our team. Let’s face it, 364 days out of the year…
Come to our 3rd annual UNLOCKED conference in Washington, DC this October
July 7th, 2017
Thycotic is hosting our 3rd annual UNLOCKED conference in Washington, DC this October, and we want YOU to join us! Here are the top 5 reasons you should attend. 1. Get your hands dirty The best way to learn is to do it yourself, right? Especially when you can try new things and not worry…
The Top 5 PAM Tasks IT Teams Must Automate Part 4: SSH Key Management
July 5th, 2017
Automating SSH Key Management: Management of SSH keys can be tough, especially if best practices require the keys to be updated periodically, or when someone who possesses some of the keys leaves the company. Manual management is a daunting task, yet many SSH key management tools are limited in their capabilities. In this 5-part Thycotic…
The Top 5 PAM Tasks IT Teams Must Automate Part 3: Team Password Sharing
June 22nd, 2017
Automating Team Password Sharing: Sharing access to admin accounts across an organization is a challenge. But with proper automation in place your users know exactly what systems they can access and which accounts they can use to access those systems—a proverbial “one-stop shop” to conduct their work fast and securely. In this 5-part Thycotic educational…
The Top 5 PAM Tasks IT Teams Must Automate Part 2: Changing Network Passwords
June 21st, 2017
Automating Network Password Changing: A password that remains the same year in and year out is a hacker’s dream, and a breach waiting to happen. Fortunately, there are tools that can force users to change passwords after a set period of time, and can automate password changing to protect privileged accounts. In this 5-part Thycotic…
The Top 5 PAM Tasks IT Teams Must Automate Part 1: Privileged Account Discovery
June 16th, 2017
Automating Privileged Account Discovery: The first rule of Information Security says, “You can’t protect what you don’t know you have.” In other words, you could be harboring a hacker as we speak. Let’s examine how automation can be used to discover, catalog and protect the privileged accounts on your network. In this 5-part Thycotic educational…
How Does Encryption Work?
June 12th, 2017
Before we get started, I want to call out something very specific. We are going to cover encryption today, and not salting or hashing. These are two different things that are often associated together when storing things like passwords in a secure manner. A Quick Overview of Encryption Encryption at its core basis is a…
Security: Powered by People
June 8th, 2017
Guest column by SailPoint. Author: Juliette Rizkallah The acceleration of cloud adoption is gaining more traction each day. If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a thousand times, cloud is where the majority of enterprises are headed. It’s more than just your employees who are using the cloud to get things done; the cloud connects…
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