10 Must-Have Elements for an Air-Tight IT Security Policy

10 Must-Have Elements for an Air-Tight IT Security Policy

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In 2023, data security faced an uphill battle against cyberattacks, and the risks of becoming a victim grew stronger.  There was a shocking 600% surge in cybercrime, with the average breach costing $4.37 million to recover from. The figures are up across the board, with cyberattacks occurring globally every 14 ... Read More
What is Identity Governance: 5 Steps to Build Your Framework

What is Identity Governance: 5 Steps to Build Your Framework

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From financial records to employees’ personal details, almost all information nowadays is highly sensitive – and, therefore, highly valuable to attackers.  With 61% of data breaches involving credentials, it’s unsurprising that Identity and Access Management (IAM) is showcasing such rapid growth as a protection method against bad actors. Projected to ... Read More

Using Webhooks with your Privileged Access Management Tool

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Organizations often use multiple applications to perform business. For example, a tech team might find that Jira works well for managing tasks and a support team might find they prefer PagerDuty to handle support tickets. However, handling several applications and the data within them can be challenging. This is where webhooks ... Read More
Just-in-time access permission management

9 Questions to Ask a Privileged Access Provider

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Most resources, such as databases or machines, are running in the cloud today and need privileged access. Yet few teams can effectively manage identities in the cloud at scale, with Gartner estimating that by 2023, 75 percent of cloud security failures will occur due to inadequate management of identities and ... Read More
Privileged Access Governance

Top 5 Privileged Access Governance Capabilities for Compliance and Audit

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Managing access rights for users has persistently posed a challenge for organizations, regardless of their size or industry. Access governance aims to enhance productivity while minimizing security risks. Additionally, maintaining a transparent overview of individuals with access to particular digital assets and ensuring the legitimacy of that access within compliance ... Read More
Employee Stress Puts Data in Danger

Employee Stress Puts Data in Danger

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The Harvard Business Review conducted a survey of more than 330 remote employees from a wide range of industries to self-report on both their daily stress levels and their adherence to cybersecurity policies over the duration of two weeks.  Employee Stress Leads to Failure of Cybersecurity Policies HBR found that ... Read More
Two ways to request access to cloud resources on Slack - with Apono

Provisioning Just-In-Time Access via ChatOps

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A survey of 1,000 IT operations, DevOps, site reliability engineering (SRE) and platform engineering professionals in the U.S. conducted by Transposit, a provider of an incident management platform, found more than two-thirds (67%) have seen an increase in the frequency of service incidents that have affected their customers over the ... Read More
Apono Success Stories: Rho

Apono Success Stories: Rho

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Rho is an all-in-one finance platform that offers fully automated solutions for accounts payable, cards, expense management, and treasury. The Challenge: Flexible just-in-time access done right Rho operates in a market that is strongly regulated, and they were looking for a solution to help them meet access control requirements. They ... Read More

Buyer’s Guide for Privileged Access Governance Solutions

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We’re excited to announce that we’ve just published our Buyer’s Guide for Privileged Access Governance solutions! Why we created the guide Most companies in the world today have already migrated most of their workloads to the cloud, with 91 percent of organizations reporting that they already have or will refactor ... Read More

Achieving Zero-Standing Privileges with Okta and Apono

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Organizations are twice as likely to get breached through compromised credentials than any other threat vector. Compromised credentials are when credentials, such as usernames and passwords, are exposed to unauthorized entities.  When lost, stolen or exposed, compromised credentials can give the intruder insider’s access. Although monitoring and analysis within the ... Read More