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Palo Alto Networks
and Europol expand
collaboration efforts
alo Alto Networks and Europol
have signed a memorandum
of understanding (MoU) that
expands their collaboration efforts to
tackle cybercrime activity and improve
security for citizens, businesses and
governments across the EU.
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The agreement, which builds on Palo Alto
Networks’ extensive work with Europol’s
European Cybercrime Centre (EC3)
over the last three years, will include
exchanging threat intelligence data and
details of cybercrime trends, as well as
technical expertise and best practices.
Central to the effort is the exchange
of cyberthreat research from Palo Alto
Networks’ Unit 42, the company’s threat
intelligence team. Its analysts work to
uncover and document new adversary
behaviours, malware families and attack
campaigns around the world.
Unit 42 also helps organisations defend
themselves from the latest cyberthreats
by sharing playbooks with insight
into the various tools, techniques and
procedures threat actors employ.
Palo Alto Networks has been actively
partnering with Europol as a member of
EC3’s Internet Security Industry Advisory
Group since early 2017.
Through this group, the company
participates in regular meetings with
Europol investigators to discuss security
challenges related to cybercrime trends
and share insight on tackling them. Those
involved also coordinate on running joint
prevention and awareness campaigns.
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CENTRIFY POLL REVEALS REGIONAL
ENTERPRISES NOT TAKING ACTION TO
SECURE PRIVILEGED ACCESS TO CLOUD
entrify, a leading provider
of cloud-ready zero trust
privilege to secure modern
enterprises, has announced results
of an onsite poll conducted during
GITEX 2019.
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Overall, a majority of respondents
indicated that Privileged Access
Management (PAM) was important
for their organisation, with more
than 90% of respondents indicating
that PAM is important in their overall
cybersecurity strategy.
However, while the importance
of PAM was indicated by the
respondents, their real-life adoption
and usage of PAM was found
to be much less. Only 35% of
the respondents confirmed that
Privileged Access Management is
being used by their organisation.
The remaining 65% of respondents
were either testing, researching or
not considering Privileged Access
Management at this time.
Kamel Heus, Regional Director,
Northern, Southern Europe, Middle
East and Africa at Centrify, said: “This
onsite poll indicates that organisations
in the Middle East are ignoring the risk
of allowing administrative users to have
privileged access without any controls.
Globally, Centrify and others have found
that upwards of 74% of data breaches
involve privileged access abuse.
“What’s concerning is that we continue
to find it’s not a lack of awareness, but
rather a lack of action. Organisations
need to prioritise Privileged Access
Management as a top security project
now and do so with a modern approach
founded in zero trust and least privilege.”
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