Passwords play an important role in authenticating users in an organization. As an IT admin, you’d hope that employees would understand the importance of password management and be more meticulous, but often, that’s not the case. Implementing strong password management …
The Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) market has seen rapid growth in recent years and it is estimated to reach almost $6 billion by 2021. With more companies jumping onto the IGA bandwagon in 2020, it’s time to step …
Data breaches are a nightmare for an organization. Not only do they impact a company’s reputation, but they often end up costing huge sums of money. IBM and Ponemon Institute’s 2019 Cost of Data Breach report states that the average …
On any given day, employees toggle between multiple business-critical applications, both on-premises and cloud-based, requiring them to remember different passwords. This often leads to password fatigue and, subsequently, a surge in password-related help desk calls.
Although IT administrators can manually …
Among the various tasks that IT administrators carry out on a daily basis, password management takes center stage. Gartner estimates that about a third of help desk calls are concerning password resets and account lockouts. While attending to these calls …
Among the many issues remote users face, forgotten passwords can be a significant roadblock to productivity, as they require help from an administrator. When a user logs on to an Active Directory (AD) domain, Windows securely caches the domain credentials …
People often use common words as their passwords so they don’t forget them. This practice impacts security severely, making it easy for hackers to easily breach accounts by guessing these common passwords. Microsoft’s Azure AD Password Protection is a feature …
In a previous blog, we saw how two-factor authentication (2FA) secures access to cloud apps in hybrid AD. 2FA adds an extra level of security for applications, including Office 365, G Suite, and Salesforce, to protect sensitive information. With …
IT teams often shoulder a number of important security-related responsibilities. It’s essentially up to them to ensure organizations’ networks are secure. For most organizations, comprehensive password management plays a vital role in securing their networks.
IT admins have to give …
