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What Are the Three Most Common Access Risks?

These days it seems like there are security solutions for almost everything except the one thing you can never fully secure: humans. But while you can’t control everything they open or click on, you can control their access to your sensitive data. However, with increasing numbers of staff, devices, partners, locations and more, it is becoming tougher than ever to keep users access secure. How can...
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Staying Accountable: A Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Overview and Compliance Checklist

Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, a number of instances of financial fraud were uncovered in large public corporations, leading to a growing feeling of distrust in the market. Back in 2001, for instance, a scandal surrounded the American energy company Enron when they were discovered to have used fraudulent accounting practices and loopholes to hide their losses in financial reports. This...
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Six Stages of Penetration Testing

Through penetration testing, you can proactively identify the most exploitable security weaknesses before someone else does. However, there’s a lot more to it than the actual act of infiltration. Penetration testing is a thorough, well thought out project that consists of several phases. Read on to learn about what it takes to complete a successful pen test. Planning and Preparation Many old...
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What is Rubber Stamping and Why is it a Serious Cybersecurity Concern?

Bulk approvals of requests to have access to any of the various systems and assets quickly becomes a security concern. In order to avoid giving into the temptation to rush approvals of these requests without adequate review, organizations must first understand the damage that can result from overusing approvals, why it happens, and how this can be prevented. Although it is not common practice...