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When it comes to privileged accounts, cybercriminals don?t stand a chance against the combined power of privileged access management and multi-factor authentication. Together, they provide the protection your most valuable and sought-after accounts nee… Continue reading Maximum Privileged Account Protection with Multi-Factor Authentication
With more points of vulnerability across your access environment than ever before, the old tools you?ve always relied on to secure access are no longer enough to protect your organization. New plan: Integrate multi-factor authentication to transform se… Continue reading 5 Areas Where Multi-Factor Authentication Keeps Secure Access Secure
Another recommendation I fail to understand.
The explanation is that, if I use admin account and manage to have my computer infected, the malware is able to take control over my entire system. But:
The dreaded days of old … Continue reading Why is it recommended to use accounts without sysop rights for everyday work?
I am currently working on a PAM project for Unix(AIX),WIndows,Oracle and SQL. We are not clear on how we can define what exactly privileged access is? Are there any attributes, parameters for each of these device type that ca… Continue reading Privileged Access Management: How to technically define what is privileged access?
In Linux server I have disabled the default account Halt. Even after disabling the account I can see the logs from the account stating that account activity has been detected for every one hour exactly.
Can anyone please exp… Continue reading About the Default Account Halt [migrated]
In Mysql DBMS is it possible to assign USAGE privileges to a user which can do an update query? In order to prevent SQL-injection.
I can try some SQL-injection against a ad-hoc damn web application in my virtual enviroment for educational purpose.
In one of these I obtain the table column_privileges (of Mysql Information schema) empty, I retrive the table but the fiel… Continue reading Mysql Information schema column_privileges empty
What tools do your organisation use for privileged account management when a user needs to install some application or access some application one time having no access to an admin account?
Continue reading Tools for privileged account management [on hold]
Should the sole user of a *nix (particularly Linux and MacOS) have two accounts, one with sudo privileges and one without? Years ago I read that on your personal computer you should do your daily tasks as an unprivileged user and switch to… Continue reading Should the sole user of a *nix system have two accounts?
I’m curious as to whether, and if so why, Unix and Linux distributions still ship with default accounts shutdown, halt and sync. Specifically (from a Red Hat document),
sync:x:5:0:sync:/sbin:/bin/sync
shutdown:x:6:0:shutdown… Continue reading Default accounts shutdown, halt, and sync – still shipping?