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In this video for Help Net Security, Darren Siegel, Product Specialist at Specops Software, talks about the importance of password security and what makes them vulnerable. He also outlines common password practices and gives tips on how to make sure yo… Continue reading How to improve enterprise password security?
Password reset According to Forrester, a single password reset can cost an organization $70. As eye popping as that figure may be, it pales in comparison to organization wide password reset costs. Gartner estimates that up to 40% of all helpdesk calls … Continue reading Product showcase: Specops uReset SSPR solution
Password-related attacks are on the rise. Stolen user credentials including name, email and password were the most common root cause of breaches in 2021 with several high-profile and disruptive attacks over the last two years on SolarWinds, Colonial Pi… Continue reading Organizations need to change their current password usage and policies, and do it fast
Specops Password Auditor is a read-only tool that scans your Active Directory and identifies password-related vulnerabilities. The collected information generates multiple interactive reports containing user and password policy information. Plus, you g… Continue reading Audit Your Active Directory with a free, read-only scan from Specops
48% of organizations don’t have a user verification policy in place for incoming calls to IT service desks, according to Specops Software. The information was uncovered as part of a survey of more than 200 IT leaders from the private and public sectors… Continue reading IT service desks lacking user verification policy, putting businesses at risk
They are often the target of many attackers who search for them like gold. Some can be easily found, while others can be more difficult to come by. However, inevitably, they can certainly be the weakest link in the security for your entire organization… Continue reading Product showcase: Specops Password Auditor
Specops Password Policy is a powerful tool for overcoming the limitations of the default password policies present in Microsoft Active Directory environments. To be fair, Microsoft did revise and upgrade the default password policy and introduced addit… Continue reading Review: Specops Password Policy
As organizations work to ensure remote workforce productivity, the issue of cached credentials will inevitably appear, causing a problem for the impacted user, and the IT service desk. It’s no secret that some material portion of nearly every workforce… Continue reading The challenge of updating locally cached credentials
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a momentous shift for many organizations: remote work has become the new normal. Businesses that were skeptical before are now being forced to make it work, and many are discovering that the work can be done as well … Continue reading Help your helpdesk: Empower employees to self-reset their AD account password
Billions of personal data records are up for sale on the Dark Web as data breaches continue to occur at an alarming rate. According to Risk Based Security’s 2019 Midyear Data Breach report, there was a 54% increase in data breaches in the first half of… Continue reading Social engineering: Mind the identity verification gap