Privileged users are an essential part of any organization. However, with access to commercial secrets and to the most vulnerable parts of the corporate network, they can pose high risks to your corporate cybersecurity. For this reason, the more privileges users have, the closer they need to be monitored.

Furthermore, privileged user monitoring (PUM) is a requirement of multiple laws, regulations, and data security standards including PCI DSS, SOX, NIST SP 800 171, NIST 800-53, GDPR and HIPAA. In this post, we describe the top 10 PUM best practices for improving the...

Negligent or malicious actions of those who have legitimate access to your systems can be more devastating to your company than efforts of outside attackers. The average cost of a single insider threat event in 2022 ranges between $484,931 and $804,997 according to the 2022 Cost of Insider Threats Global Report by the Ponemon Institute. 

The good news is that you can avoid falling victim to insider threats by learning from examples of security incidents from other organizations. In this article, we review nine of the most recent large cybersecurity incident...