Minimizing Exposure to Ransomware Attacks with Centrify Zero Trust Privilege
Ransomware attacks like the ones that wreaked havoc in Baltimore, Maryland, Albany, New York, and Genesee County, Michigan are dominating the headlines in 2019. Holding someone or something for ransom...
View ArticleModern Practices: Zero Trust Security
In today’s mobile-first, cloud-first environment, cybersecurity starts with protecting the primary attack vector – privilege identities – with a “never trust, always verify” mindset for Zero Trust...
View ArticleMFA Everywhere: A Tried and True Method in Accelerating Security
While phishing attacks continue to jeopardize today’s organizations (a reported 76% of organizations experienced phishing attacks in 2017), it was refreshing to hear that tech giant Google has...
View ArticleA Ticking Time Bomb: Understanding and Securing the Next Generation of Workers
It’s sometimes easy to forget that the younger employees of today are the managers of tomorrow. If we fail to understand how they use technology and perceive security and privacy, it will have a major...
View ArticleCyber Risk Insights from the AIG 2017 Cyber Insurance Review
I read with interest AIG’s 2017 Cyber Insurance Review. In a one sentence summary: cyber insurance claims are up, due to systemic ransomware and wiper malware attacks, the cyber business is booming,...
View ArticleLIVE BLOG: SecurIT Zero Trust Summit
REGISTER BELOW FOR THE LIVE STREAM! Welcome to the live blog from SecurIT: the Zero Trust Summit for CIOs and CISOs. SecurIT is an all-day industry event at Terra Gallery in San Francisco. This blog...
View ArticleIt’s Almost GDPR D-Day: So What Happens Next?
Over the past 12 months during this blog series I’ve tried to provide insight into some of the key aspects of the GDPR and how organisations can better prepare for the big compliance deadline day of 25...
View ArticleSupply Chain Risk: Time to Focus on Partners Ahead of GDPR Deadline
With the GDPR compliance deadline of May 25 almost upon us, recent events have highlighted the importance of locking down third-party risk. Attacks on supply chain partners, Facebook’s data leak...
View ArticleCentrify for NIST 800-171 MFA Compliance
I often speak with Federal System Integrators (FSIs) who need to implement Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) as part of their NIST 800-171 compliance. Specifically section 3.5.3 of this NIST guide...
View ArticleTakeaways from the Russia-Linked US Senate Phishing Attacks
The Zero Trust Security approach could empower organizations and protect their customers in ways that go far beyond typical security concerns. On January 12, 2018, cybersecurity firm Trend Micro...
View ArticleMulti-factor Authentication (MFA) Is Ready for Prime Time
We’ve heard it time and again. As security threats increase and morph, and user devices and locations diversify, multi-factor authentication (MFA) should be blossoming into a trusted method for...
View ArticleC-Suite Disconnect is Weakening Cybersecurity
Today, Centrify announced a new research study conducted with Dow Jones Customer Intelligence titled, “CEO Disconnect is Weakening Cybersecurity.” The report sheds light on what’s going on inside the...
View ArticleBreak the Trust and Stop the Breach: The Zero Trust Security Model
As 2018 is upon us, it’s time to take stock of our new realities and commit to better behavior that benefits us and our companies. The discussion of the perimeterless enterprise is not new. In fact,...
View ArticleFive Best Practices for Zero Trust Security
The Centrify Zero Trust Security model is effective because it allows organizations to remove trust from the equation entirely. Based on the assumption that untrusted actors already exist inside and...
View ArticleEscaping Data-Breach Groundhog Day
Countless companies globally are trapped in data breach Groundhog Day, unable to escape a repeating cycle of cyber attacks. In the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, produced by 451 Research, the key...
View ArticleCentrify to Discuss Zero Trust Security at the ICIT 2018 Winter Summit
Following the high-profile breach of the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which exposed the personal data of millions of Americans, the House of Representatives’ Committee on Oversight and...
View Article4 Months to Go: A New Year GDPR Checklist
As we enter the New Year, IT and security leaders have most likely been glued to revelations of major new CPU-level vulnerabilities Meltdown and Spectre, described by researchers as among the “worst...
View Article4 Steps to Reduce the Risk of Shared Account Passwords
Reduce the Risk of a Security Breach When Sharing Privileged Accounts There are partners, employees, contractors, customers and others who access or try to access your most valuable company assets on a...
View ArticleThe Year in Review: Rethink Security
During a year of high-profile breaches like Equifax, HBO and Uber, as well as the realization that Yahoo’s highly-publicized 2013 breach compromised the accounts of all three billion of its users, the...
View ArticleWhy Password Vault Only Solutions Are Not Enough to Stop a Breach
‘Twas the month of Christmas and all through the town, packages ‘round trees were being carefully laid down. But much to the surprise of one neighborhood, their packages were stolen, taken for good!...
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