With ⅓ of Enterprises Suffering from Weak or Exposed Passwords, Is Hollywood Part of the Problem?
What password would you use for a bank account soon to be worth $120 million?
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Enterprises continue to suffer from poor password hygiene and a lack of visibility & control over privileged users
It has been more than a year since I last shared Preempt Inspector statistics. Last time we shared Preempt Inspector statistics we found some alarming numbers. With the end of 2018 approaching, I would like to share with you key findings fr…
Continue ReadingIs Your Organization at Risk Because a Local Administrator Has a Weak Password?
In July, media reported that SingHealth, Singapore’s largest health organization, was breached with 1.5 million medical records stolen. The stolen records included those of Singapore’s prime minister Lee Hsien Loong. Consequently, a special…
Continue ReadingSimplifying PCI DSS 3.2 Compliance with Preempt
If your organization handles credit cards, you are no doubt familiar with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance. PCI DSS is a set of requirements and procedures that have been established in order to streng…
Continue ReadingFixing Account Lockouts With Adaptive Policies
Dealing with account lockouts is one of the unhappy facts of life for many IT teams. And while resolving lockouts isn’t particularly difficult, it is the sheer volume of incidents that often weighs down IT teams. In fact a recent surv…
Continue ReadingStudy Finds Employee Security Habits Reveal Risky Imbalance
Human nature motivates us to enhance productivity, make things easy, find workarounds and to crave information that is being kept from us. How do these motivations change the way people work? Do their actions put their company at risk? Do I…
Continue ReadingPreempt Inspector Discovers Stealthy Admins to Help Organizations Reduce Risk
This past March we announced Preempt Inspector, a free app for password strength assessment. The App provided administrators with a better understanding of their AD configuration, especially difficult to estimate parameters, such as duplica…
Continue ReadingDefending Against Credential Compromise (VIDEO)
Credential Compromise has been a leading attack vector for the last five years. There are a variety of ways that attackers can do this. It could be by guessing passwords, phishing emails, spyware, or even pulling credentials out of me…
Continue ReadingPassword Policy Gets a Reset
In a recent blog, we discussed how attackers typically follow the path of least resistance. In enterprises, this almost always involves seeking out weak passwords. Data from Verizon’s Data Breach investigation Report certainly bears this ou…
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