A 2022 report on privileged user threats by Ponemon Institutes suggests that privileged user attacks skyrocketed by 44% in 2020, with the cost per attack at $15.38 million. With the colossal damage ...

The typical organization loses 5% of its revenues to fraud by its own employees each year, with most thefts committed by trusted employees in executive management, operations, accounting, sales, ...

Too many organizations are still allowing most of their end-users full-time administration privileges in Windows. If you ask why the taboo practice is continuing, administrators will respond that they ...

Windows UAC and least-privilege products aim to ensure that users have no more permissions than necessary to do their jobs “Least privilege” is the No. 1 IT security mantra. It means, “Don’t grant ...

One of the most important principles of good computer security is the principle of least privilege: A user should have no more access to data and systems than is necessary for their task. Too often, ...

Many of the largest and most infamous data breaches of recent years have a common root cause. Cyberattackers have exploited poorly secured privileged user accounts to steal or corrupt sensitive data, ...

Activists are calling for awareness and change following the death of George Floyd and protests across the country. Now, a new challenge trending on TikTok urges users to examine the privileges they ...

Splunk for Windows has a high-severity flaw that lets local users escalate privileges through misconfigured file permissions. Learn how to fix it.

Giving users only standard privileges on common OS platforms like Windows and MacOS has become almost become de facto IT security advice for many environments. But how does this play out in the real ...

Migrating to Microsoft Windows 7 is becoming more urgent for the many UK companies that still run Windows XP. Support for the old operating system will come to a halt in April 2014, which means no ...