In a recent conversation with our marketing analyst at ESET Mexico, Juan Carlos Fernández, we discussed a story about a scam carried out by a bogus company during his time as a university student. The ...

Privileged accounts, such as administrator, root, and service accounts, are common to all computerized networks. These accounts carry a great deal of power. It is, therefore, natural for hackers to ...

One of the pillars of information security that many businesses tend to struggle with is based on the principle of least privilege. Principle of least privilege is the idea that accounts are created ...

Least privilege won't solve every security problem, but it's a significant step in the right direction My previous column on the questionable long-term effects of least privilege created a firestorm ...

Security and IT Audit people in the enterprise are always going on about "security principles." What are these principles and why do they matter in a business? Let's consider some of the major ones ...

Traditional approaches to network security are no longer sustainable in the cloud age, meaning companies have to adapt quickly. With more remote working, applications have left the secure perimeter, ...

The least-privilege security model is one of the oldest and best-known endpoint strategies in the industry. It has the support -- at least on paper -- of Microsoft, and products for implementing it ...

Least privilege is an alluring, elusive concept. Admittedly, a common first reaction to hearing the phrase is to focus on the word “least.” Immediate push-back of “but I need this to do my job.” The ...

Opal Security’s least privilege posture management detects and prioritizes different types of risky access based on several factors, including permanent access, sensitivity, unused access and access ...

Since Verizon discovered that 75% of attacks use compromised credentials, businesses’ interest in the idea of "least privilege" has increased dramatically. Least privilege is all about restricting ...