WHY YOU SHOULD REVIEW PRIVILEGED ACCOUNTS EVEN IF YOU ARE ALREADY USING PAM SOLUTIONS
THE PROTECTION OF PRIVILEGED ACCOUNTS IS A SENSITIVE ISSUE IN TODAY’S BUSINESS WORLD. These accounts are extremely critical because they allow you to manage and modify access to company assets and to take partial or total control of critical applications or...
ITGC IT General Controls
ITGC How did it begin? In October 2001 when the Enron scandal broke, the company specialized in energy brokerage, at the time one of the largest market capitalizations in the world. The focus of the scandal was a recurring falsification of accounts, with...
Cyber Resilience, the new Cybersecurity?
Cyber resilience, the new buzz term? Recently, you have most likely heard or read articles about "cyber resilience". This term that comes up regularly in the media is presented as the future of cybersecurity. According to Accenture, cyber resilience is "the...
GDPR & data governance: are you fulfilling your compliance requirements
What Identity Analytics really is and why you need it
IT security's advent: the "identity" concept as key factor Digital transformation has changed and is changing more and more business processes, job positions as well as many companies' core activities. In consequence, it has implied a change in the way we...
Is IAM outdated? Why you need to study alternatives
15 years of IAM: the end of an era? IAM projects have blossomed since the early 2000's and most large companies implemented one. Unfortunately, for most organizations, a significative gap appeared between what they hoped to get from their IAM...
5 reasons why access-related security is key to hybrid ERP transformation
Hybrid ERP: the postmodern transformation for ERPs Postmodern ERPs are the new form of ERP systems, no longer coming only from single-instance megasuites such as SAP or Oracle. ERPs are now hybrid - mega-suite on-premise but also partly in the cloud - or even fully...
Controls automation: auditors and internal control’s key to success?
Why and how should a company automate controls? The reasons to automate controls processes will logically depend on the company's context and security challenges. Fighting against fraud is one of the main reasons for organizations to implement controls automation...
Leavers’ threat – a simple and powerful IT security threat for any company
Employees leaving by the door can come back through the window A sysadmin in New York has just been sentenced to two years in prison for hacking his old company. This sysadmin had been let go by his company in 2010, taking with him all of his credentials. Or maybe he...
Operations’ autonomy and cloudification: what about risk management?
Decentralization and cloudification Why do IBM mainframes always make us think about prehistory and dinosaurs? Or is it only about different sociological or "ideological" perspectives? Today's employee: services consumer and focused on business goals...
