White Paper: Revitalizing Access Control Programs
Access control, a critical component of IT security compliance programs, ensures that organizations protect confidential information, like intellectual property and customer data. But your access management program can easily become outdated and static—especially if you rely on manual control testing and user access administration tasks.
Privileged Account Management for Dummies
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 important, this book explains the risks associated with these accounts and how to best protect them from hacker and malicious insider threats.
The What, How, and Why of Zero Trust Cybersecurity
Abstract: As naming goes, Zero Trust is easily understood. No one is trusted implicitly. In terms of cybersecurity, organizations should trust no one, whether an insider or an outsider, with unverified access to sensitive IT assets.
A Beginner’s Guide to Access Security
This is the comprehensive beginner’s guide for anyone looking to understand the basics of access security.
White Paper: KRI Basics for IT Governance
This white paper addresses some of the most common challenges of implementing, managing, and maintaining key risk indicators (KRIs) within your IT department.
Cyber Security Team’s Guide to Success
Thycotic has spent the past year reaching out to the IT security leaders around the world to find out how they feel they are perceived in their roles, how they measure success, what motivate employees, how to be successful at getting security budget and most importantly how to avoid stress which can lead to burnout.
Privileged Account Management Best Practices
Because privileged users have so much power, most organizations have some basic controls in place to limit or audit their activity. But are you doing everything you should? Here is a guide of best practices you can follow to take control over privilege users across your IT environment.
2019 State of Privileged Access Management (PAM) Maturity Report
With up to 80% of breaches due to compromised credentials according to leading analysts, more organizations than ever are prioritizing privileged account protection. As Privileged Access Management (PAM) becomes top of mind, C-level, IT and cyber security professionals are seeking a framework in which they can properly assess, manage, and minimize risks to privileged credentials.
Case Study: Privileged Access Management for Systech International
Systech International needed to improve the IT security of its on-premise data center in London by protecting access to sensitive information such as Finance, HR, and accounting data, as well as third-party access for IT system maintenance.
eBook: 4 Ways To Optimize Your Vendor Onboarding Process
With BitSight for Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM), you can gain immediate visibility into cyber risks within a potential vendor’s ecosystem – enabling you to reduce your onboarding time and costs, and scale your processes to assess and monitor all of your vendors with your current resources.
White Paper: Faster, Less Costly, and More Scalable Onboarding
In this white paper, we will take a look at some of the challenges that keep today’s vendor onboarding processes from supporting the needs of modern businesses.
How to Reduce Risk in an Ever-Expanding Digital Ecosystem
In this white paper, we will examine what is driving the need for continuous visibility into an organization's digital assets. Then, we will explore how SPM helps security and risk leaders achieve broad visibility into all their digital assets — across all devices and endpoints, onpremise or in the cloud — on a continuous basis. Only with this visibility can the business assess its cybersecurity posture and take steps to build an effective program around risk reduction.
Third-Party Cyber Risk: 8 Key Considerations
In this white paper, we’ll look at why third-party security risk matters, some of the forces transforming this space, and how to prioritize risk. During the way, we’ll dive into principles for fair and accurate ratings and why the security of your vendor’s entire enterprise matters. You’ll also learn the true cost of administering your vendor security questionnaire and how to incorporate continuous monitoring into your third-party risk program.
Benchmarking digital risk factors facing financial service firms
RiskRecon and the Cyentia Institute published the Internet Risk Surface and Cloud Risk Surface reports in mid-2019. These studies analyzed data from RiskRecon spanning over five million Internet-facing hosts from ~20,000 organizations as well as major hosting providers around the world. The primary goal was to explore dimensions of interconnectivity, interdependence, and risk exposure that define the era of digital transformation.
