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Privileged accounts are essential to businesses both big and small, but these accounts pose a greater security threat than meets the eye. Sometimes, clicking on a malicious link is all it takes to ...

Privileged accounts are often overlooked by security and IT teams. Administrators manage user accounts with Active Directory policies, but rarely change or review local Windows and service accounts.

Organizations are under constant attack, with hackers targeting privileged accounts for the treasure trove of data they provide. Many recent high-profile breaches have one thing in common: they were ...

Privileged Unix accounts are a concern because of their enormous power and simultaneous lack of accountability. In Unix and Linux, privilege can be established two ways: by using a root account that ...

In theory, creating privileged access accounts to the most critical areas of your company’s network is supposed to add a layer of security to sensitive data or infrastructure. However, these accounts ...

The new Bomgar Discovery Tool discovers a variety of Windows accounts and generates a detailed report on the status of an organization’s privileged credentials. Using the Bomgar Discovery Tool, ...

Elizabeth Neus is the managing editor of FedTech. Before joining FedTech, Elizabeth was a reporter for Gannett, covering health care policy and medicine. As a Gannett editor, she worked on ...

Unified identity security company Silverfort Inc. today announced the launch of Privileged Access Security, a new way to secure privileged accounts faster and easier than previous solutions. The new ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Settle is a seven time CIO and the author of two books on IT management. Privileged Access Management (PAM) broadly refers to ...

A new benchmark survey finds that more than half of organizations have a failing grade when it comes to securing privileged accounts that can give attackers access to their entire networks. Most ...