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University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf Scores European Identity Award

Admin — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:21:39 +0000

Congratulations to our customer University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), who was named a winner of the European Identity & Cloud Awards 2013 for Best Approach on Improving Governance and Mitigating Risks.

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Most IT Pros Don’t Report Their Colleagues When They Catch Them Misbehaving

Admin — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:47:32 +0000

According to data we’ve sifted from our survey of attendees at RSA Conference 2013, 45% of IT workers have snitched on co-workers they’ve caught breaking corporate IT rules or accessing sensitive company information they’re not authorized to see. Of course this means that most of the survey respondents - 55% - admit they’ve turned a blind eye to colleagues they’ve caught in these same acts.

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Cybersecurity Trends: a Q&A

Kevin — Thu, 09 May 2013 16:44:15 +0000

The most dangerous threats are highly personalized attacks using custom developed software designed for one-time use against a specific individual. Using inexpensive and plentiful labor, as well as access to vast amounts of personal data on social media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and others, attackers can now create perfect email attacks that allow the insertion of remote control software onto corporate networks.

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The Critical National Infrastructure Catch-22

Philip Lieberman — Thu, 02 May 2013 21:49:09 +0000

The best way to describe the current critical national infrastructure (CNI) cyber-security situation is as a deadlock between the status quo and a secure future. As strange as it may seem, executive management within CNI is being held hostage by employees who have no reason to improve security.

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Automating Privileged Identity Management

Admin — Wed, 01 May 2013 21:28:10 +0000

In the session from the recent Microsoft Management Summit posted below Philip Lieberman, of Lieberman Software, discusses how privileged identity management can be automated and scripted using Windows PowerShell and SOAP web services to provide a scalable and secure cloud for your customers, and authoritative audit trails for your auditors. If you want to understand the real scope of the privileged account management challenge facing large enterprises and cloud providers, set some time aside for this in-depth presentation.

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Would You Bet $100 That You Won’t Suffer a Data Breach in the Next 6 Months?

Philip Lieberman — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:08:06 +0000

Why the pessimistic attitude among IT security folks? One assumption is because they realize that vendors of traditional security tools like firewalls and anti-virus are in an almost constant state of catch up, updating their products to reactively protect against yesterday’s threats. Meanwhile hackers, rogue nation states and others are looking for new flaws which they can exploit in tomorrow’s attacks.

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Cloud Computing and the Financial Services Industry: a Q&A

Admin — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:38:03 +0000

Are security issues preventing financial services firms from adopting cloud computing? If so, what can be done to improve cloud security and encourage financial firms to migrate to the cloud? To find out, we sat down with our very own Philip Lieberman. In addition to serving as IdentityWeek’s Editor-in-Chief, Phil is also President and CEO of privileged identity management vendor Lieberman Software.

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Defending Against Nation-State Cyber Attacks

Philip Lieberman — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 21:49:47 +0000

If you’ve been following the news over the last 6 months or so, you may have noticed an uptick in articles related to Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) security legislation. You may have also seen more reports of cyber-attacks against a wider variety of targets by entities other than criminal elements seeking financial gain. Why is that?

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4 Out of 5 IT Pros Agree – Employees Deliberately Ignore IT Security Rules

Philip Lieberman — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:47:54 +0000

For all of you IT admins and managers privately suspicious that no matter what you do to protect the security of your network, your end-users will thwart you anyway – guess what? Our latest survey shows that more than 80% of your colleagues agree with you.

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Put CEOs In the Stocks For Poor Critical National Infrastructure Security?

Philip Lieberman — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:46:44 +0000

One of the biggest defining features of the cybersecurity bill drafted by Senators Lieberman and Collins that fizzled late last year had to do with securing the critical national infrastructure (CNI) companies that keep our lights buzzing, our water running, our fuel pumping and our dial-tone humming.

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