Security News > 2022 > June > How to stop malicious privileged user attacks

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 privileged user attack leaves in their wake, averting security threats coming from malicious privileged users and the threats they may pose to your organization has become more crucial than ever.

Understanding what makes one a privileged user will help organizations monitor and mitigate malicious privileged user attacks.

How business organizations can stop privileged user attacks.

One other way of abating the threat of malicious privileged user attacks is to come up with a security monitoring team that periodically monitors how all the privileged users use their access in performing their roles.

Another way to stop the incidence of malicious privileged user attacks in your organization is to deploy multi factor authentication so that some user privileges must demand authentication before granting a user access.

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