Protecting against Advanced Email Threats: Beyond the Nigerian Prince Scam

In the modern, hyper-connected and threat-laden enterprise landscape, organizations face increasing pressure to protect their systems and data. Originally conceived in 2010, the zero trust security concept has recently gained new ground and is now seen as a vital element of enterprise information security. It is a model that aids user and device verification, strengthens authentication processes and ensures encryption. However, zero trust is not without its challenges, and mastering the art of zero trust takes strategic management and forethought.

InfoSec pros have their work cut out for them—with the need to secure an estimated 300 billion passwords by 2020. Privileged password management, in particular, is a pain point for almost every organization. Privileged credentials are often difficult to identify, challenging to tame and properly secure, and if done improperly, can be costly to manage. Without strong privileged password management processes and technology in place, your organization is ripe for all kinds of security breaches. In many industries, lack of the proper protections in place alone puts you at risk from legal and/or regulatory fallout.

While the GDPR and Schrems II mandates accelerated the need for external key management solutions in Europe, it is clear that these needs are expanding to become global requirements. Other countries and even states are jumping into the fray with clear specifications for safeguarding Personally Identifiable Information (PII). For example, Schrems-II doesn’t allow keys that provide access to the encrypted data, to be hosted outside of the European Economic Area (EEA). Privacy and compliance are calling the shots on the data protection lifecycle.

Newly discovered vulnerabilities in industrial control systems (ICS) are targeted more than ever. In fact, the number of ICS-CERT advisories increased by 56.2% from 2020 to 2021 according to the TXOne Networks 2021 Cybersecurity Report. Many of these systems include legacy devices that were designed before cybersecurity became a serious concern, leaving them highly susceptible to emerging threats.