Tag Archives: cyber-ark

IT staff confess insider snooping

More than a third of IT administrators abuse their privileged access to IT systems to download confidential data such as board meeting minutes, redundancy lists, and marketing strategies, a new survey.. more

Security firms called in to swine flu battle

Computer security firms are playing a vital but little known role in the global fight against swine flu. Secure electronic communications allow governments and health agencies to keep up to date.. more

Cyber-Ark launches new access management tool

Security software provider Cyber-Ark yesterday unveiled an updated version of its access management tool, Privileged Identity Management (PIM) Suite 5.0. Available immediately, PIM 5.0 is a combination of two existing Cyber-Ark.. more

Australian Government data loss avoidable

Cyber-Ark says the deletion of more than 10,000 Government records in Australia’s Northern Territory by the drunken ex-fiancee of an IT staffer highlights the need for protection of critical user IDs and passwords. “Reports are coming in of the deletion of 10,475 user accounts on.. more

Popular passwords include '1234' and 'password'

When 28,000 log-in details stolen from a well-known website were posted online recently, security firms discovered that a sizable minority of internet users are incredibly naive at setting their own password. Security analysts Cyber-Ark found that 14% of users choose sequential combinations such as 1234,.. more

Cyber-Ark Posts Record 2008

Cyber-Ark Software added more than 130 new global customers in 2008, including Kaiser Permanente, which marked the company’s 500th customer win. Cyber-Ark’s expanded partnerships, growing customer base and proven information security products fuelled the company’s record 40 percent year over year revenue growth. “With insider.. more

Cyber-Ark Signs Huge banking Institution

Software Company Cyber-Ark, who work in the areas of Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Sensitive Information Management and Digital Vault solutions, have been hired by an unnamed “influential global financial institution” to provide their PIM security solution. According to the company the ink is already dry.. more

Cyber-Ark announces Inter-Business Vault 5.0

In a security market that is beginning to see problems with tried and tested security solutions such as Secure FTP, companies are turning more and more towards alternative ways of keeping data secure. One such solution is Sensitive Information Management, another comes in the form.. more

Cyber-Ark Calls On Government to Adopt EU Security Policies

A highly publicized incident in which a disk containing personal details of over 5,000 Ministry of Justice staff went missing has prompted Cyber-Ark to claim that it is time for the EU data security controls to be fully taken up in the UK. They say.. more