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Centrify Research Reveals 90% of Cyberattacks on Cloud Environments Involve Compromised Privileged Credentials
Prevalence of breach attempts can be attributed to reliance on cloud as work-from-home era continues March 17, 2021― An overwhelming percentage (90%) of cyberattacks on cloud environments in the last 12 months involved compromised privileged credentials, according to new research from Centrify, a leading provider of modern privileged access management (PAM) solutions. The new study, […]
Survey: Business Decision Makers Say Security Concerns Remain Biggest Obstacle to Public Cloud Adoption
By Kamel Heus, VP, EMEA for Centrify With more businesses migrating to remote work environments in response to the pandemic, the cloud has become a resource to help maintain business continuity. However, increased presence in the cloud has also raised questions for many organizations seeking to secure this expansion of the attack surface. A recent […]
Protecting Credentials in 2021
By: Torsten George, cybersecurity evangelist, Centrify The world has been faced with numerous life lessons in 2020, but it’s clear that millions of people still haven’t learned one of the most basic. A new NordPass report has unveiled that millions of people still haven’t broken the habit of using easy-to-remember…but easy-to-hack….passwords. Out of the 200 […]
“Nope, Go Phish” – How Organizations Can Finally Put a Stop to The Oldest Hacking Trick
By Torsten George, cybersecurity evangelist, Centrify Phishing is one of the oldest tricks in a hacker’s playbook. The tactic can lure any employee from blissfully going about their day-to-day activities to being an unknowing accomplice in a major cyberattack with the click of a link. With the pandemic adding extra stresses on employees, adversaries have […]
Insider Threat Awareness Month Reminds Us That the Biggest Threats Can Arise from Within
By Torsten George, cybersecurity evangelist, Centrify Many organizations are aware of the challenges related to external threat actors and therefore focus their efforts on creating deterrents to protect against these cyberattacks. In doing so, they often overlook that the biggest threats can arise from within. Insider Threat Awareness Month offers a great opportunity to make organizations realize that today’s modern cyberattack is […]
Cisco to buy Cloud security company CloudLock!
Cisco, the networking giant primarily located in San Jose, California has made it official that it is buying Cloud Security provider CloudLock for $293 million. CloudLock is a service provider which helps Corporate CIOs track and control how the employees are using the services on a cloud platform. As per the press briefing from the […]
