Data Lifetime is a system problem

Any piece of software we build has a possibility of being vulnerable to either a known flaw or a zero day vulnerability. Using such malicious parties will continue to gain access to the machine. Although it’s highly i

If you’re thinking that the industry you’re operating in is safe from cybersecurity threats then you might have to think again. In this article, we’ll specifically discuss the implications of breaches on healthcare businesses and why is annual penetr

A recently disclosed data leak impacts around 700,000 AmEx India customers, exposing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) like Names, Emails & Telephone numbers. This leak highlights the perils of Shadow IT, and why organizations should look in

RSA conference is one of the leading security conference worldwide.  It creates tremendous opportunity for firewall vendors, users and practitioners to innovate, educate and discuss around the current security landscape.

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Key Discussion Points : 

• What is Shadow IT?
• What are the types of Shadow IT?
• Practical demo using open source tools
• Controls to manage shadow IT risk

Reason Of Risk : 

• No standardization
• Unknown risks
• Security breaches
• Data leaks

Types O

This article delves into the risk Shadow IT poses. In a recent report Gartner predicted 30% of breaches due to Shadow IT, this further brings the focus to this topic. Let’s take a look at the report and a few mitigation strategies

1.What Gartner Pre

Credential stuffing is a method that hackers use to infiltrate a company’s system by automated injection of breached username & password pairs. Attackers use credentials to bypass anti-spam and firewall devices and access users accounts. Once they w

Here is a small list of the major policies and best practices to manage Shadow IT

Policies To Have

1.Have A Shadow IT Policy

Create a policy document that takes care of the major areas of Shadow IT Management. This will make sure all company assets

Subdomain Takeover is a type of vulnerability which appears when a DNS entry (subdomain) of an organization points to an External Service (ex. Heroku, Github, Bitbucket, Desk, Squarespace, Shopify, etc) but the service is no longer utilized or has b

Gartner predicted that shadow IT is 30 to 40 percent of IT spending in large enterprises, and Everest Group predicted that it can be 50 percent or more of IT Spending. This indicates that a lot of IT spendings are being bypassed to IT department. Ho

Organizations across all Financial Services firms are dealing with the effects of shadow IT, whether they realize it or not. Shadow IT is technology that is adopted and deployed by business units without the knowledge or consent of corporate IT team

As the name suggest “Digital Footprint”, it’s the unique traces of your digital presence. As per wikipedia, “ Digital Footprint refers to one’s unique set of traceable digital activities, actions, contributions and communications that are manifested

As the name suggest “Digital Footprint”, it’s the unique traces of your digital presence. As per wikipedia, “ Digital Footprint refers to one’s unique set of traceable digital activities, actions, contributions and communications that are manifested

Many organizations have hundreds of vendors and Third-Party risk exposure is one of the biggest threats. Most organizations depend upon partners, vendors, suppliers, contractors and other third parties for day-to-day operations. Each of them present

Third-Party risks are more as the Third-Party breaches continue to dominate and these breaches are expensive to organizations. Third-parties are those companies that you directly work with such as data management companies, law firms, e-mail provide

Here we will explore the Shadow IT Risks for OT Departments. Operations Technology groups can be an integral part of important business functions like production, maintenance and more. This means there are a lot of IT related functions which can be

Digital Footprint is the information about the organization that exists on the Internet due to their online activity. Organizations’ digi

Shadow IT  threats involves pushing back on any initiatives that try to bypass IT and fighting the line of business managers for ownership of these projects. Shadow IT opportunity involves transforming shadow IT into official line-of-business shortc