Against the backdrop of the ever-increasing cyber attacks, government and industry regulations prescribe stringent security measures for banking and financial institutions to safeguard customer data. With information security as the highest priority and tasked with the responsibility …
Combat Identity Thefts and Advanced Cyber Threats with Password Manager Pro Enterprise Edition
No one is safe out on the virtual streets of cyber world, and security breaches surface quite frequently to remind us of the same. Lately, the U.S. federal agencies are the favorite hot spots for hackers. Two weeks ago,…
Microsoft LAPS: Honest Obituary or False Eulogy to the Death of Passwords?
The famous Latin phrase De mortuis nil nisi bonum (Of the dead, nothing unless good) came to mind last week when Microsoft announced the release of LAPS (Local Administrator Password Solution). Microsoft has been predicting the demise of passwords …
How Secure Is Password Manager Pro?
Gone are the days when all you needed was a strong password to guard your data. Now, we live in an era where you not only choose a strong password, but also get a strong and secure password manager. A …
Hacking Hospitality: How to Fight the Cyber-criminals Targeting Business Travelers
Traditionally, financial institutions have remained the top targets of cyber-criminals across the globe. Of late, hackers are eyeing so many other things that, one would normally consider unworthy of hacking. They are even finding novel ways to …
Jimmy Kimmel Sheds Light on Password Security
Ace comedian Jimmy Kimmel, who is known for tickling our funny bones through his television shows, tried a social engineering experiment last week. In the backdrop of high profile cyber-security incidents, he wanted to measure how safe people’s passwords …
Middle Eastern & African IT Professionals Often Pass On Secure Password Management
The GITEX Technology Week in Dubai gave ManageEngine the opportunity to interact with a cross-section of IT professionals from the Middle East and Africa, and we found that password security is still largely neglected.
IT organizations in the Middle East …
Code Spaces AWS Security Breach: A Sad Reminder of the Importance of Cloud Environment Password Management
In the recently concluded Black Hat USA, 2014, one of the topics that drew much attention was the session on the pitfalls in cloud environment security. Normally, such deliberations at security conferences are perceived as hypothetical or purely academic. However, …
Passwords, King of Authentication: Long Live the King!
This post is a reproduction of an article I wrote that was originally published in Business Computing World.
“When you play the Game of Thrones, you win or you die”. One thing that we have learnt from the popular …