Identity management within an organization is a very important component of intrusion protection. "Outsiders that want to hack into organizations are becoming smarter," said Gurucul CEO Saryu Nayyar, "so we're seeing a pretty steep rise in compromised accounts." Gurucul uses big data analytics to create a context around everything connected to the network -- users, accounts and devices.
Cyberdefenders for years have adopted Fort Apache
strategies to protect their networks. Strong perimeters could prevent
attackers from reaching precious data, they reasoned.
As technology marched on, however, the idea of an impermeable wall
became as quaint as the Maginot Line on the eve of World War II.
Firewalls alone no longer were strong enough to keep data safe. The
mantra emanating from security circles was "It's not if you'll be breached, it's when.""Traditional defense is focused outward on incoming network traffic and not focused on internal behavior," observed Saryu Nayyar, CEO of Gurucul.
Yet it's increasingly internal threats -- either insiders who are bad apples or outsiders posing as insiders through compromised credentials -- who are putting organizations at risk.
"Outsiders that want to hack into organizations are becoming smarter," Nayyar told TechNewsWorld, "so we're seeing a pretty steep rise in compromised accounts."
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