Verizonâs Data Breach Investigations Report consistently finds that 80 percent of breaches are caused by compromised or weak credentials. Todayâs columnist, James Quick of Simeio, says because of these high rates of attack, security teams should make all accounts privileged. (JeepersMedia/CreativeCommonsAttribution 2.0 Generic CC BY 2.0)
About 10 years ago, I thought a separate privileged identity and access management system was overkill. The idea of separate controls for super users as opposed to the rest of the workforce seemed an unnecessary use of resources. We just needed to build an honest, qualified and unified team to manage identity access across the board.
Every website on the Internet is somewhat vulnerable to security attacks. The threats range from human errors to sophisticated attacks by coordinated cyber criminals.
According to the Data Breach Investigations Report by Verizon, the primary motivation for cyber attackers is financial. Whether you run an eCommerce project or a simple small business website, the risk of a potential attack is there.
It’s more important than ever to know what you’re up against. Each malicious attack on your website has its specifics, and with a range of different types of attacks going around, it might seem impossible to defend yourself against all of them. Still, you can do a lot to secure your website against these attacks and mitigate the risk that malicious hackers target your website.
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A former Cisco engineer has been sentenced to serve 2 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges that he hacked his former company, causing $1.4 million in damages, the U.S. Justice Department announced Wednesday.
In August, Sudhish Kasaba Ramesh, 31, pleaded guilty to one charge of intentionally accessing a protected computer without authorization and recklessly causing damage, according to the U.S. Attorney s Office for the Northern District of California, which oversaw the case (see:
Ramesh worked for Cisco from August 2016 to April 2018. After he left the company, he regained access to Cisco s hosted cloud infrastructure on Amazon Web Services and deleted over 450 virtual machines, which caused outage issues for the company s Webex customers, according to the Justice Department.