Category: Security

By 2022, 40% of global midsize and larger organizations will use identity and access management (IAM) capabilities delivered as software-as-a-service (SaaS) to fulfill most of their needs, cites a 2019 Gartner press release on IAM technology trends. Today, businesses are aligning themselves with a digital ecosystem by moving toward cloud…

User risk management watches where people can’t. If you polled a random sampling of employees at various organizations, most would probably consider themselves security-minded. They would argue that they are not actively sending sensitive data to malicious recipients, clicking strange links or downloading attachments from unknown senders. This mindset is…

According to IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) team’s Cloud Security Landscape Report 2020, ransomware is the most commonly deployed malware in infiltrated cloud environments. It accounts for three times as many cases as cryptomining and botnet malware, which are second and third place, respectively. Ransomware remains a…

Shellshock is a bug in the Bash command-line interface shell that has existed for 30 years and was discovered as a significant threat in 2014. Today, Shellshock still remains a threat to enterprise.   The threat is certainly less risky than in the year of discovery. However, in a year…