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Five reasons to prioritize Privileged Access Management as-a-service

Privileged access is the gateway to an organization’s most valuable assets and is at the core of nearly every major security breach. Privileged Access Management (PAM) as-a-Service is a good way for organizations to get their PAM programs up and running faster and easier than ever. If you are reading this, you’re likely familiar with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and the benefits that it can bring your organization. We see that organizations are moving more and more of their applications and infrastructure to the cloud for a variety of reasons including: security, cost savings and ease of management. Likewise, in cybersecurity, organizations are starting to turn more and more to Security-as-a-Service to capitalize on the benefits above and marry security with operational ease of use.

After privileged access has been identified as a priority, deciding how to deploy it is the next step. In CyberArk’s Global Advanced Threat Landscape Report: Where Security Accountability Stops and Starts in the Public Cloud, we found that the number 1 reason organizations are moving to the cloud is security.

However, the harsh reality is that no organization can ever fully secure all their applications and infrastructure, whether their data center is on-premises, in the cloud, or hybrid. There is no single solution available in the market today that will prevent every advanced cyber-attack. But prioritizing what matters most first, privileged access, and taking advantage of all the benefits a SaaS solution can provide is increasingly becoming the option of choice for organizations who are embarking on a Privileged Access Management program. Privileged Access Management (PAM) as-a-Service is becoming a popular method for deploying security solutions for a variety of reasons. In this Ebook we’ll discuss five reasons to prioritize PAM as-a-service.

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Top 8 IAM Challenges with your SaaS Apps

The Importance of Identity for SaaS Applications

The enterprise cloud revolution is here. IT organizations everywhere, from small and mid-sized businesses to Fortune 500 companies, are moving from on-premises software to on-demand, cloud-based services. As enterprise IT makes this transition to a new hybrid on-demand/on-premises configuration, controlling who is granted access to which applications becomes increasingly important. This presents CIOs and their teams with a whole new set of identity management challenges. In addition, users must keep track of multiple URLs, user names, and passwords to get access to their applications. IT’s role is also fundamentally changing. As the steward of these new services, IT must provide insight and advice about Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products to ensure the company is maximizing the business value of their investments.

There are eight main identity and access management (IAM) challenges associated with adopting and deploying cloud and SaaS applications, as well as best practices for addressing each of them.

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Privileged Account Management for Dummies

Getting to know PAM

This book gives IT professionals a practical understanding of privileged account management (PAM). It describes what privileged accounts are, where they reside throughout an IT environment, and how they function. Most importantly, this book explains the risks associated with these accounts and how to best protect them from hackers and malicious insider threats.

This book will help you:

Grasp the fundamentals of privileged account management (PAM)
Develop strategies for building a PAM solution
Learn the top ways to protect your organization’s most critical accounts

PAM for Dummies is sponsored by Thycotic, an IBM partner whose technology powers IBM Security Secret Server.

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About SecurIT

Founded in 1999, SecurIT has over 18 years of extensive experience of designing, implementing, maintaining large Identity Management/Governance infrastructures. With more than 30 specialists permanently employed in the Netherlands SecurIT offers its customers high quality consultancy, implementation, management and support services (24*7).

Privileged Account Management for Dummies 4 — Identity Management

Privileged Account Management for Dummies 5 — Access Management

Privileged Account Management for Dummies 6 — Federated Identity Management

Privileged Account Management for Dummies 7 — Privileged Accounts Management

Privileged Account Management for Dummies 8 — IBM registered partner

Cost of a Data Breach Report 2019

This year’s Cost of a Data Breach Report explores several new avenues for understanding the causes and consequences of data reaches. For the first time, this year’s report details the “long tail” of a data breach, demonstrating that the costs of a data breach will be felt for years after the incident. The report also examines new organizational and security characteristics that impact the cost of a data breach, including: the complexity of security environments; operational technology (OT) environments; extensive testing of incident response plans; and the process of closely coordinating development, security, and IT operations functions (DevSecOps). Continuing to build on previous research, the 2019 report examines trends in the root causes of data breaches and the length of time to identify and contain breaches (the breach lifecycle), plus the relationship of those factors to the overall cost of a data breach. Following the 2018 report’s initial examination of “mega breaches” of greater than 1 million lost or stolen records, we continue this research with comparative data for 2019. And for the second year, we examined the cost impacts of security automation, and the state of security automation within different industries and regions.

Lost business is the biggest contributor to data breach costs*

The loss of customer trust has serious financial consequences, and lost business is the largest of four major cost categories contributing to the total cost of a data breach. The average cost of lost business for organizations in the 2019 study was $1.42 million, which represents 36 percent of the total average cost of $3.92 million.** The study found that breaches caused abnormal customer turnover of 3.9 percent in 2019. Whereas organizations that lost less than one percent of their customers due to a data breach experienced an average total cost of $2.8 million, organizations with customer turnover of 4 percent or more averaged a total cost of $5.7 million – 45 percent greater than the average total cost of a data breach.

Data breach costs impact organization for years

About one-third of data breach costs occured more than one year after a data breach incident in the 86 companies we were able to study over multiple years. While an average of 67 percent of breach costs come in the first year, 22 percent accrue in the second year after a breach, and 11 percent of costs occur more than two years after a breach. The long-tail costs of a breach were higher in the second and third years for organizations in highly regulated environments, such as the healthcare and finance industries. Organizations in a high data protection regulatory environment saw 53 percent of breach costs in the first year, 32 percent in the second year and 16 percent more than two years after a breach.

* The research in the Cost of a Data Breach Report is based on a non-scientific sample of 507 companies. The key findings are based on IBM and Ponemon analysis of the data and do not necessarily apply to organizations outside of the group that was studied.

** Local currencies were converted to U.S. dollars.

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The Dangers Within – Your Key to Better Insider Threat Detection

Privileged Access: How Insiders Cause Damage

At least 60 percent of organisations allow third-party vendors to remotely access their internal networks, and just like employees, these external users can turn into exploited, unintentional and malicious insiders. Yet, these users are not managed by your organisation, which makes it difficult to secure and control their privileged access to your resources.

According to a recent survey by the Ponemon Institute, 49 percent of respondents admitted that their organisation has already experienced a data breach caused by a third-party vendor, and 73 percent see the problem increasing.

This white paper uncovers common misconceptions about insider threats, and provides new insight to help organisations better protect against these costly attacks. Read this eBook to learn the who, what, why and how of the insider threat to expose risks you may not be considering and gain guidance to help you prevent and detect these attacks.

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The Dangers Within – Your Key to Better Insider Threat Detection 11 — Identity Management

The Dangers Within – Your Key to Better Insider Threat Detection 12 — Access Management

The Dangers Within – Your Key to Better Insider Threat Detection 13 — Federated Identity Management

The Dangers Within – Your Key to Better Insider Threat Detection 14 — Privileged Accounts Management

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GDPR The journey to value

Creating a sustainable, governed data asset for GDPR and beyond

With the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its enforcement from 25th May 2018, a new balance will be created between commercial interests and consumer rights around personal and sensitive data. All individuals possess personal data which needs to be shared with organisations – customers during transactions, employees at work, business partners under contract. Engaging positively and responsibly with these data subjects is the intended outcome of the Regulation and will ensure business is sustainable as well as capable of continued innovation.In the run-up to this new environment, much will be done to educate individuals about their new rights and the need for businesses to process their data. At the moment, awareness is low – just 10 per cent of consumers surveyed said they are fully aware of GDPR (Source: “GDPR Impact 2017”, DataIQ commissioned survey of 1,001 UK consumers conducted by Research Now, February 2017). But just as data security has become a mainstream issue, so will data protection. The difference is in the opportunity for demonstrating the upside of data sharing, rather than defending against the downsides of data breaches.Download the whitepaper to help you develop your GDPR readiness program.IBM can assist you with your GDPR readiness programme through a full end-to-end solution.

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GDPR The journey to value 17 — Identity Management

GDPR The journey to value 18 — Access Management

GDPR The journey to value 19 — Federated Identity Management

GDPR The journey to value 20 — Privileged Accounts Management

GDPR The journey to value 21 — IBM Gold Business Partner

FUTURE-PROOF YOUR IAM

Need strong security? Go silent.

A strong security posture and a positive digital experience don’t have to be mutually exclusive. You can achieve both with the silent, nonintrusive security of IBM identity and access management (IAM). This approach to IAM isn’t hidden away—far from it. Silent security connects users, applications, and ultimately people to the information and applications they need—only standing in the way when it detects bad actors.Providing users access to the right applications and tools, at the right time, and for the right purposes must be done while offering customers a delightful experience. You need to make sure you are protecting information from theft and meeting ever-stricter regulatory requirements. Your IAM solution is integral to achieving these goals, yet it works best when your users don’t even know it’s there.IAM works best when users don’t even know it’s there.

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FUTURE-PROOF YOUR IAM 23 — Identity Management

FUTURE-PROOF YOUR IAM 24 — Access Management

FUTURE-PROOF YOUR IAM 25 — Federated Identity Management

FUTURE-PROOF YOUR IAM 26 — Privileged Accounts Management

FUTURE-PROOF YOUR IAM 27 — IBM Gold Business Partner

2017 Cost of Data Breach Study

Last year IBM and Ponemon Institute researched the average total cost of a data breach. It became clear that the average total cost of a data breach is $3.63 million. Are you interested in reading more about this research? Fill in the form to receive the full study.The average cost per stolen record went down this year by 10%, from $158 in 2016 to $141 in 2017. This sounds like good news, but the amount of breaches that took place went up by 1.8%. On average the amount of stolen records per data breach was 24.000.

$141 is the average cost per lost or stolen records

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2017 Cost of Data Breach Study 29 — Identity Management

2017 Cost of Data Breach Study 30 — Access Management

2017 Cost of Data Breach Study 31 — Federated Identity Management

2017 Cost of Data Breach Study 32 — Privileged Accounts Management

2017 Cost of Data Breach Study 33 — IBM Gold Business Partner