Mainframes are often derided as a relic of a bygone era, but the facts say differently. In fact, IBM – the world’s largest mainframe vendor – recently released a report that showed Z series mainframe sales are up: the revenue grew 61 percent in Q1 this year. Last year IBM reported an increase of 70 percent year over year. The list just goes on: Ninety-two of the world’s top 100 banks all of the to...
First of all, don't get all riled up because of the blog title... We actually love Open Source products like PuTTY - World's Most Popular Free SSH Client,or other free clients like WinSCP. otherwise we would not let you download them from our site. But we think there are many situations in which a top-tier commercial product cannot be beat.
Editor's note: this blog was posted originally on December 19, 2019 and has been updated with more links and other tweaks. Cloud environments today require modern tools for cloud access management. Traditional PAMs, while useful for enterprises’ on-prem environments, have some limitations where cloud is involved however. Fast-moving cloud teams require elasticity and scalability that modern access...
Cyberattacks attacks are on the rise once again. High-profile targets like the World Health Organization (WHO) and their top officials are a lucrative target for hackers. Also, hackers got hold of 500,000 Zoom user passwords. “This is unprecedented for everyone here. We’re doing what we can to mitigate it” is a direct quote from WHO’s chief information officer (CIO), Bernardo Mariano. He also sta...
For obvious reasons, a vast majority of your system administrators, DevOps teams and software engineers are forced to adopt remote work habits right now. They are called privileged users for a reason, since they access to business-critical databases and maintain IT infrastructures. But are security controls under threat now that this shift was so sudden? The same applies to non-privileged users as...
How many years has the cybersecurity industry talked about “the password problem”? And how many years has the conclusion always been the same: passwords are one of the weakest links in the cybersecurity chain. They are always either too simple, stolen or lost. Or they become too complex to remember. But everybody has to use them. Right? Think again. We can’t claim to be able to eliminate all the p...
Just over two months ago, we launched PrivX Free – a fully-featured access management gateway to multi-cloud and on-prem IT environments with a twist. The twist, of course, is that PrivX is precisely what the name promises: free. The interest in the product has been overwhelming with the number of registered users growing day by day. Below is a bit of a breakdown of who uses PrivX Free, what are t...
