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“It is a fairly open secret that almost all systems can be hacked, somehow,” said the famous Internet Security Researcher David Kaminsky. “It is a less spoken of secret that such hacking has gone quite mainstream.” That statement certainly rings true in the current cyber threat landscape. Global cyber attacks …

To all our customers, partners, and colleagues, thank you for being with our team over the years. We appreciate the privilege we've had as a company to offer technologies to help keep the market safe. From all of us at Remediant, we hope everyone has a safe, fulfilling holiday season …

Business expenses associated with a data breach or ransomware attack continue to rise. IBM’s 2022 Cost of a Data Breach Report found an average cost of $9.44 million in the U.S. Worldwide, another study showed the average ransom payment increased 82% from 2020 to 2021. The increase in payouts occurred …

Privilege access is at the heart of most organizations’ security and is an attractive attack vector that bad actors frequently target. Legacy PAM solutions provide a starting point for keeping credentials safe, but an advanced PAM strategy (i.e. a PAM+ approach), improves your security posture overall. Case in point, when …

Zero Trust is a phrase that evokes a myriad of reactions and definitions. In the vendor marketplace, it’s an often repeated slogan. For organizations, IT departments, and cybersecurity teams, it’s a challenging mountain to climb. To many of our customers, it’s a journey in which they are progressing. At its …

Multi-factor authentication is now considered table-stakes within cybersecurity but companies struggle to successfully adopt and deploy the technology. Here's why: Cost and technical complexity are often cited as top reasons for deployment failure. With IT budgets and staff pulled in so many different directions, these are significant concerns. Multi-factor authentication …

Speaking for myself, I unfortunately have developed a sense of apathy to the continuing success of cyberattacks. I don’t care to read beyond the headline that a ransomware attack resulted in a payout. Worse, I am less jarred by the next email from a provider about my personal data being …

The MITRE ATT&CK Frameworks highlights Privilege Escalation and Lateral Movement as the 2 of the top 5 attach techniques. We will use the Cisco breach as the most current example of how a "standard attack" plays out by a (likely) human adversary. The steps taken were straightforward (though a bit …