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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 ReadingDealing 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 ReadingHuman 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 ReadingThis 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 ReadingCredential 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 ReadingIn 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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