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The Anatomy of a Privileged Account Hack

When a privileged account gets hacked, it allows the attacker to impersonate a trusted employee or system and carry out malicious activity without being detected as an intruder. Once attackers compromise a privileged account, they can typically roam at will through an IT environment to steal information and wreak...

Why Are Hackers so Successful at Targeting Privileged Accounts?

Many IT users lack a full understanding of how privileged accounts function, and how they fit as a key component into the anatomy of a typical breach. That makes IT teams and their organizations much more vulnerable to potential monetary and reputational damage from increasing cyber threats. Download this...

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Dark Web Research: Criminals Pay Top Dollar for Your Certificates

It's frightening what criminals can buy on the dark web, but it's even scarier that they may be buying your own security certificates to use against you. Venafi recently sponsored a six-month investigation into the sale of digital code signing certificates on the dark web. Conducted with the Cyber Security Research...

Going Beyond Windows OS: Malware Protection for Mac OS & Mobile Android and iOS Platforms

Yes, malware commonly targets the Windows operating system. But if you limit malware analysis to Windows OS, you're leaving gaping vulnerabilities, says Christopher Kruegel of Lastline Inc. Here's how to maximize your analysis. One common limitation of malware analysis is that organizations focus too much of their...

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The Identity-Centric Approach to Security

Traditional identity and access management (IAM) controls, though extensive, are static. Once a malicious user gains access, they are free to exploit the system up to the extent of the account's set privileges. Download this whitepaper and learn how an identity-centric approach to security solves this problem...

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How to Protect Your Business Amid the Cybercrime Boom

The digital transformation has created a whole new set of attack surfaces that must be defended, in addition to the existing infrastructure you've been protecting for years. So how can you ensure your hybrid environments, administrative power, and automation tools are not exploited by an attacker? Download this...

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Protect Your Data the Way Banks Protect Your Money

The security model deployed by credit and debit card systems is significantly different than traditional corporate data security solutions. You may think the difference is Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards. However, they are primarily best practices. PCI is not what makes payment card security special. Download...

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How to Use Threat Analytics to Prevent Breaches

As the threat landscape continues to evolve, you need a practical and robust way to protect privileged access in your enterprise. Analytics that detect new threats and automatically mitigate them are a great way to achieve this. Download this whitepaper and learn key steps to utilizing threat analytics such as how...

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Buyer's Guide for Certificate Management

As certificate counts within the average organization rise to tens of thousands, it has become exponentially harder to manage them effectively. Many organizations turn to their certificate authorities (CAs) to protect the keys and certificates that each CA issues. The basic tools CAs provide are certainly a step up...

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Digital Certificates: Next Generation Identity Access Management

Identity and Access Management (IAM) programs are becoming increasingly essential to securing critical systems and data; last year, companies spent $7 billion on IAM, most on protecting user credentials, but almost nothing protecting keys and certificates, the credentials that identify and authorize machine-to-machine...

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The Machine Identity Crisis:The Security of Machine-to-Machine Communications

Our increased dependence on machines is so profound that even the definition of machine is undergoing radical change. The number and type of physical devices on enterprise networks has been rising rapidly, but this is outstripped by the number of applications and services they host. At the same time, cloud adoption...

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Dark Web Research: How Much Will Criminals Pay for Your Certificates?

It's frightening what criminals can buy on the dark web. But it's even scarier that they may be buying your own security certificates to use against you. Venafi recently sponsored a six-month investigation into the sale of digital code signing certificates on the dark web. Conducted with the Cyber Security Research...

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4 Steps to SSH Security: Protect Privileged Access

SSH is used for secure administrative access, but what happens if it's not secure? Despite the sweeping access SSH keys grant, including root access, most are not as tightly controlled as their level of privilege requires. If your organization doesn't know which administrators or SSH keys have access to which...

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Stop Unauthorized Abuse of Privileged Access: Protect your SSH Keys

Take control of your SSH keys to minimize your risk of intrusion SSH keys provide the highest level of access rights and privileges for servers, applications and virtual instances. Cyber criminals want this trusted status and invest considerable resources into acquiring and using SSH keys in their attacks. Even...

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2017 SSH Study - Executive Brief

A recently published 2017 survey of over 400 security professionals in the U.S., U.K. and Germany measured how well their organizations implemented security controls for SSH keys. The results show that most organizations are underprepared to protect against SSH-based attacks, with fewer than half following industry...