IBM Verify

Summary

Ransomware-as-a-service has lowered the barrier to entry for cybercriminals to deploy sophisticated attacks and collect cryptocurrency through extortion. The key to success for attacks is the compromise of privileged user accounts that unlock valuable, sensitive data that can be held for ransom. Yet, best practice privilege access management (PAM) is still elusive for companies and government entities of all sizes and levels of security maturity. Expired accounts, unnecessarily elevated privileges, and insider abuse are too common. Just being a little bit bad at PAM can expose you to an increased risk of ransomware attack success.
This webinar will focus on easy-to-implement PAM controls that can help you neutralize attacks by:

• Enforcing the principle of just-in-time, just-enough privilege across systems, devices and services
• Continuously auditing and discovering privilege accounts, removing unnecessary admin rights
• Monitoring for policy violations and suspicious behavior
• Moving passwords to the background to reduce user fatigue and improve security
• Integrating PAM into a broader zero trust posture

Please join us on in this on demand recording. Share your questions below and register to watch here.

------------------------------
Patrick Ancipink
Security Product Marketing
IBM
Austin TX
------------------------------

Excited for the webcast! This looks really interesting.

------------------------------
Michael Williams
------------------------------

Original Message:
Sent: Wed March 16, 2022 03:40 PM
From: Patrick Ancipink
Subject: Privileged accounts: The weakest link in the ransomware attack chain?

Summary

Ransomware-as-a-service has lowered the barrier to entry for cybercriminals to deploy sophisticated attacks and collect cryptocurrency through extortion. The key to success for attacks is the compromise of privileged user accounts that unlock valuable, sensitive data that can be held for ransom. Yet, best practice privilege access management (PAM) is still elusive for companies and government entities of all sizes and levels of security maturity. Expired accounts, unnecessarily elevated privileges, and insider abuse are too common. Just being a little bit bad at PAM can expose you to an increased risk of ransomware attack success.
This webinar will focus on easy-to-implement PAM controls that can help you neutralize attacks by:

• Enforcing the principle of just-in-time, just-enough privilege across systems, devices and services
• Continuously auditing and discovering privilege accounts, removing unnecessary admin rights
• Monitoring for policy violations and suspicious behavior
• Moving passwords to the background to reduce user fatigue and improve security
• Integrating PAM into a broader zero trust posture

Please join us on Wednesday, March 30th, 2022 at 9AM EDT. Share your questions below and register to join here.

------------------------------
Patrick Ancipink
Security Product Marketing
IBM
Austin TX
------------------------------

Hi everyone,

You can watch the on demand recording here and download the slides here.

Please share any of your questions below.

------------------------------
Patrick Ancipink
Security Product Marketing
IBM
Austin TX
------------------------------

------------------------------
Patrick Ancipink
Security Product Marketing
IBM
Austin TX
------------------------------

Original Message:
Sent: Wed March 16, 2022 03:40 PM
From: Patrick Ancipink
Subject: Privileged accounts: The weakest link in the ransomware attack chain?

Summary

Ransomware-as-a-service has lowered the barrier to entry for cybercriminals to deploy sophisticated attacks and collect cryptocurrency through extortion. The key to success for attacks is the compromise of privileged user accounts that unlock valuable, sensitive data that can be held for ransom. Yet, best practice privilege access management (PAM) is still elusive for companies and government entities of all sizes and levels of security maturity. Expired accounts, unnecessarily elevated privileges, and insider abuse are too common. Just being a little bit bad at PAM can expose you to an increased risk of ransomware attack success.
This webinar will focus on easy-to-implement PAM controls that can help you neutralize attacks by:

• Enforcing the principle of just-in-time, just-enough privilege across systems, devices and services
• Continuously auditing and discovering privilege accounts, removing unnecessary admin rights
• Monitoring for policy violations and suspicious behavior
• Moving passwords to the background to reduce user fatigue and improve security
• Integrating PAM into a broader zero trust posture

Please join us on in this on demand recording. Share your questions below and register to watch here.

------------------------------
Patrick Ancipink
Security Product Marketing
IBM
Austin TX
------------------------------