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Protecting America’s Critical Infrastructure

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The SEIA bill passed on June 27th in the Senate could be a good start to isolate and segment the most important control systems of the U.S. But government bills and regulations can at best only mandate what organizations should be doing on their own to protect themselves and the people who depend on them.

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MY TAKE: How SMBs can improve security via ‘privileged access management’ (PAM) basics

The Last Watchdog

As digital transformation kicks into high gear, it’s certainly not getting any easier to operate IT systems securely, especially for small- and medium-sized businesses. In fact, sophisticated identity and access management , or IAM, solutions, of which PAM is a subset, came along to help companies improve their data governance.

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MY TAKE: Memory hacking arises as a go-to tactic to carry out deep, persistent incursions

The Last Watchdog

It was designed to make it convenient for system administrators to automate tasks and manage configurations across all Windows endpoints and servers in a company network. A privileged account provides access to sensitive systems and data bases and typically gets assigned to a system administrator or senior manager.

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MY TAKE: A path for SMBs to achieve security maturity: start small controlling privileged accounts

The Last Watchdog

The challenge of embracing digital transformation while also quelling the accompanying cyber risks has never been greater for small- and mid-sized businesses. The software giant’s intent was to make it more convenient and efficient for system administrators to perform Windows upkeep. Remote desktop risks.

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Why Data Democratization? Why Now? What Does It Look Like?

erwin

When you’re looking for a definition of data democratization, you find a few common threads: making digital information accessible to the average user. opening up information systems to business users without requiring the involvement of IT personnel. Kind of a “Power to the People” meets “digital transformation” theme.

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