A 2022 report on privileged user threats by Ponemon Institutes suggests that privileged user attacks skyrocketed by 44% in 2020, with the cost per attack at $15.38 million. With the colossal damage ...

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As identity replaces the network perimeter, privileged access management has failed to keep pace. Legacy PAM tools stall ...

Microsoft's User Access Control (UAC) can be a powerful tool to protect systems from malicious software, but many people misunderstand what it can and cannot do. Knowing the power (and limitations) of ...

Geoffrey Mattson is the CEO of Xage Security, delivering zero-trust access and protection that’s easy to deploy, manage and use. In our increasingly digital world, companies managing information ...

In 2018, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts implemented the Microsoft Azure Active Directory identity and access management solution (now known as Microsoft Entra ID) as part of an IT centralization ...

Too many organizations are still allowing most of their end-users full-time administration privileges in Windows. If you ask why the taboo practice is continuing, administrators will respond that they ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Settle is a seven time CIO and the author of two books on IT management. Privileged Access Management (PAM) broadly refers to ...

With major cyber-attacks accelerating and identity-based threats becoming the norm, the defensive mindset can no longer focus ...

Splunk for Windows has a high-severity flaw that lets local users escalate privileges through misconfigured file permissions. Learn how to fix it.

user only this month. Users who had email accounts from @msn.com, @hotmail.com, and @outlook.com were affected by the hack. According to Microsoft, the hack occurred between January 1st and March 28th ...