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One Identity helps secure critical infrastructure providers
transitioning to a remote workforce
s emergency services, public health
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organisations, utilities and other critical
organisations rush to enable as many remote
workers as possible, best practices for keeping users
secure have understandably become an ongoing challenge.
To help, One Identity, a leader in identity-centred
security, is offering free use of One Identity Safeguard
for Privileged Sessions for six months to all critical
infrastructure providers.
Organisations rely on privileged IT users to configure
systems and perform vital functions so their enterprises
stay up and running. If this privileged access is not
controlled as it shifts to remote administration, they will
face heightened risk. Unmanaged privileged access opens
the door to attackers who can leverage it to steal data or
compromise systems.
One Identity’s Safeguard for Privileged Sessions enables
organisations to reduce this risk by monitoring and
managing privileged access without hindering productivity.
The solution deploys quickly and mitigates risk of a security
breach by monitoring and managing privileged access to
an enterprise’s most critical systems.
“These are unprecedented times and organisations across
all industries are being pushed to adapt quickly with
little guidance on how to do so, potentially leaving them
vulnerable,” said David Earhart, President and General
Manager of One Identity.
“At One Identity, we want to support those critical
infrastructure providers who are being asked to do
so much right now, by providing them the privileged
access management capabilities they need to keep
their systems secure without getting in the way of their
essential missions.”
POSITIVE TECHNOLOGIES: 60% OF 2019 ATTACKS
WERE TARGETED
ositive Technologies experts
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have analysed the 2019
cybersecurity threat landscape.
The analysis shows that the percentage
of targeted attacks is much greater
than that of mass attacks and that the
top target sectors were government,
industry, healthcare, science and
education and finance.
According to the study, the number of
unique cyberattacks increased by 19%
and the percentage of targeted attacks
increased by five percentage points
compared to 2018, now standing at 60%.
Positive Technologies’ experts noted that
the number of attacks increased every
quarter. In Q1, 47% of attacks were
targeted. At the year-end, this figure had
grown to 67%.
Alexey Novikov, Director of PT Expert
Security Centre, said: “Every year we
see new groups of attackers specialising
in advanced persistent threats. During
2019, the Positive Technologies Expert
Security Centre (PT ESC) tracked APT
attacks by 27 groups, ranging from
well-known groups, such as Cobalt,
Silence and APT28 to relatively unknown
newcomers. Companies are paying
closer attention to cybersecurity,
implementing and using special security
tools (such as anti-APT solutions) to
detect and prevent complex attacks.
“This makes it easier to detect
malicious activity more accurately
and significantly reduces dwell time.
Because of this, information on
individual incidents and particular
tactics and tools used by different
APT groups becomes public knowledge
and can be used as intelligence to
bolster countermeasures.”
Experts believe that companies should
shift their attention from prevention
of attacks in the perimeter to timely
detection and response inside the
network, regularly checking any
previous attacks.
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