The holiday season is officially here! What does everyone do in preparation for jingle bells, tree trimming and candle lighting? Shopping of course! No one wants to ruin the holidays is by becoming a victim of a fraudulent attack. Attacks on personal data happen both online and in-stores, and rethinking your payment method is the […]
Executives for the St. Louis Cardinals, one of the most successful franchises in Major League Baseball history, are under investigation by the F.B.I. and Justice Department prosecutors. The front-office personnel are accused of hacking into an internal network of the Houston Astros to steal information. The accused hacking illustrates several pain points that enterprises across […]
Today’s Brite Insight is brought to you by one of Brite’s certified ForeScout Engineers, Matt Ostrowski. Matt specializes in unique ForeScout deployments and enjoys finding new ways to utilize the technology. Network access control, or NAC, allows you to pre-determine a set of parameters and policies that either allow or deny a device access. […]
Today’s blog is brought to you by Kevin Cox, Brite’s Commercial Sales Manager. Kevin comes to Brite after 15 years of experience in different technology fields. The cyber threat landscape is a scary one and it is not getting any better. After spending over 15 years in different areas of technology with large organizations such as Oracle, […]
When managing privileged accounts on your network there is a particular feeling that you want to avoid. You, and your information security team, should never feel like a game of hide-and-seek has broken out. On average, there are three to four times more shared and privileged accounts than employees in an organization. So while you’re […]
Homer Simpson’s catch phrase is one, simple word: D’oh! And no better word could sum up how we’re feeling after reading SplashData’s annual list of worst passwords of the year. In fact, if people were smart enough to use D’oh as their password, it’d be more secure than about 99% of 2014’s worst. Most alarming, […]
Homer Simpson’s catch phrase is one, simple word: D’oh! And no better word could sum up how we’re feeling after reading SplashData’s annual list of worst passwords of the year. In fact, if people were smart enough to use D’oh as their password, it’d be more secure than about 99% of 2014’s worst. Most alarming, […]
Today, mobile devices come in all shapes and sizes, from smartphones, notebooks and tablets, to the new Smartwatch. While this mobility boosts efficiency through “anywhere, anytime access” to business systems it creates an equal amount of uncertainty and vulnerability for the organization. With 81% of employees currently using personal devices at work, security managers have […]
