Aug 04, 2023The Hacker News Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions are widely acknowledged as the gold standard for securing critical privileged accounts. However, many security and identity teams face inherent obstacles during the PAM journey, hindering these solutions from reaching their full potential. These challenges deprive organizations of the resilience they … [Read more...] about Making PAM Great Again: Solving the Top 5 Identity Team PAM Challenges
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Identity Protection: Benefits of a Unified Security Platform
As cyberattacks continue to grow relentlessly, enterprises have to continue improving their cyber defenses to stay one step ahead of the adversaries. One area that CISOs have recently started paying more attention is identity threat protection. This is not surprising considering 80% of modern attacks are identity-driven leveraging stolen credentials. In fact, identity threat … [Read more...] about Identity Protection: Benefits of a Unified Security Platform
Detecting NTLM Relay Attacks with CrowdStrike Identity Protection
Adversaries often exploit legacy protocols like Windows NTLM that unfortunately remain widely deployed despite known vulnerabilities. Previous CrowdStrike blog posts have covered critical vulnerabilities in NTLM that allow remote code execution and other NTLM attacks where attackers could exploit vulnerabilities to bypass MIC (Message Integrity Code) protection, session signing … [Read more...] about Detecting NTLM Relay Attacks with CrowdStrike Identity Protection
3 Reasons Not to Buy IAM + Identity Security from 1 Vendor
With the growing risk of identity-driven breaches, as seen in recent ransomware and supply chain attacks, businesses are starting to appreciate the need for identity security. As they assess how best to strengthen identity protection, there is often an urge to settle for security features or modules included in enterprise bundles from the same vendor providing their identity or … [Read more...] about 3 Reasons Not to Buy IAM + Identity Security from 1 Vendor
How Identity Protection Can Accelerate Cyber Insurance Initiatives
The growth in frequency and severity of cyberattacks has caused organizations to rethink their security strategies. Major recent security threats, such as high-profile ransomware attacks and the Log4Shell vulnerabilities disclosed in 2021, have led to a greater focus on identity protection as adversaries rely on valid credentials to move laterally across target networks. Cyber … [Read more...] about How Identity Protection Can Accelerate Cyber Insurance Initiatives
How Identity Threat Protection is Reinventing MDR
The modern threat landscape continues to evolve with an increase in attacks leveraging compromised credentials. An attacker with compromised credentials too frequently has free reign to move about an organization and carefully plan their attack before they strike. This week Falcon Complete™, CrowdStrike’s leading managed detection and response (MDR) service, announced a new … [Read more...] about How Identity Threat Protection is Reinventing MDR
How CrowdStrike Supercharges IR with Identity Threat Detection
CrowdStrike Incident Response teams leverage Falcon Identity Threat Detection (ITD) for Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and Azure AD account authentication visibility, credential hygiene and multifactor authentication implementation Falcon ITD is integrated into the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform and provides alerts, dashboards and custom templates to identify compromised … [Read more...] about How CrowdStrike Supercharges IR with Identity Threat Detection
Top 5 reasons to keep your Identity and MFA providers in sync
By now, you may have heard about SecureX, Cisco’s new integrated platform that simplifies the security experience. SecureX is built into the Cisco security portfolio, and connects your entire security ecosystem for simplicity, better visibility, and greater operational efficiency. SecureX sign-on is one of the key features of SecureX – it’s giving users instant access to the … [Read more...] about Top 5 reasons to keep your Identity and MFA providers in sync