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Password policies are a cornerstone of cybersecurity for any organization. A good password policy ensures every end user has a strong and unique password, significantly reducing the risk of...
Service accounts are vital in any enterprise, running automated processes like managing applications or scripts. However, without proper monitoring, they can pose a significant security risk due...
Active Directory (AD), Microsoft’s on-premises directory service for Windows domain networks, is so widely used for enterprise identity and access management that compromising it has become almost...
Ransomware attacks have surged 78% year-over-year, affecting various sectors and organizations and significantly impacting supply chains. In this Help, Net Security video, Craig Birch, Technology...
A keyboard walk password typically refers to a password created by moving sequentially over the keyboard keys in a pattern that resembles walking. Some examples of keyboard walk passwords that might look secure at first glance include; 'qwertyuiop', 'Zxcvbnm', and 'iuytrewQ' - but these are predictable and commonly found in compromised password data.
Insurance broker and risk advisor Marsh revealed that US cyber insurance premiums rose by an average of 11% in the first quarter of 2023, and Delinea reported that 67% of survey respondents said their cyber insurance costs increased between 50% and 100% in 2023. Reinforcing Active Directory security is one way to protect an organization's critical infrastructure and manage or even potentially reduce the costs of cyber insurance.
VMware is urging users to uninstall the deprecated Enhanced Authentication Plugin (EAP) following the discovery of a critical security flaw. Tracked as CVE-2024-22245 (CVSS score: 9.6), the...
Nearly every organization has core systems services tied to Active Directory that will go down during an outage, according to Cayosoft. The report revealed a 172% increase in forest-wide Active Directory outages since 2021, due to a confluence of factors including escalating cyberattacks, the growing complexity of hybrid environments, and human error.
This all makes IAM solutions critical to any modern business, and two popular options in that category are Okta and Microsoft Entra ID. Okta vs. Microsoft Entra ID: Comparison. Entra ID Free Entra ID P1 Entra ID P2 Entra ID Governance Free $6.00 per user, per month $9 per user, per month $7 per user, per month Identity governance.
SOAPHound is an open-source data collection tool capable of enumerating Active Directory environments through the Active Directory Web Services protocol. SOAPHound is a substitute for various open-source security tools typically employed for extracting data from Active Directory via the LDAP protocol.