Has the time finally come for the least-privilege user -- you know, setting your Windows client machines to run without system administrator rights? Leaving admin power on a user's desktop can invite ...

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 ...

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 ...

Privileged Access Management (PAM) broadly refers to the policies, procedures and tools used to manage IT resources. Standard IT users employ IT resources to perform business activities. Privileged ...

Microsoft's User Access Control (UAC) can be a powerful tool to protect systems from malicious software, but many people misunderstand what it can and cannot do. Knowing the power (and limitations) of ...

Organizations using Microsoft Intune with its Endpoint Privilege Management capability now can have better control over Windows 365 user privileges, per a Monday Microsoft announcement. A September ...

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, ...

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 ...

Though “everyone knows” the threat and consequences of insider attacks, it was still shocking to read the headlines that a former Unix engineer at mortgage giant Fannie Mae was charged in federal ...

Zoom issued an urgent security advisory about a flaw in the Zoom client that could allow a user to gain higher level privileges and access that they are not authorized for. The Zoom web client is what ...