What is Privilege Management and Where Do You Start?
What does privilege have to do with your agency’s security controls? The fact is that most data breaches start with privilege abuse. Think Edward Snowden. In the wake of his leaks, the NSA pledged to reduce system administrator privileges by 90%. Then there are outsiders. Most recent federal data breaches originate from attackers who exploited the login accounts of employees or contractors to gain access to sensitive data.
San Francisco Lockout – Found Guilty: the city or the admin?
After years of public acrimony and a 6 month trial, San Francisco IT administrator Terry Childs has been found guilty of hijacking the city’s computer system. Cyber-Ark has always maintained that this was more than simply a case about a rogue employee, but in fact an example of an organizational failure in managing and effectively taking ownership of privileged accounts and identities. At the end of the