Identity Has Become the Prime Target of Threat Actors | Silverfort + AIG

As the frequency and sophistication of ransomware attacks escalate, identity has emerged as the primary target for cybercriminals. With over 83% of organizations reporting breaches involving compromised credentials, attackers are exploiting security gaps in identity and access management (IAM) strategies, especially where multi-factor authentication (MFA) is either misconfigured or not covered. Despite the critical role […]

Overcoming the Security Blind Spots of Service Accounts

Within the challenge of Active Directory protection, service accounts have emerged as a pressing concern for identity and security stakeholders. With their inherent lack of visibility, elevated access privileges and exemption from identity protection measures like PAM and MFA, service accounts are a perilous blind spot – and a veritable goldmine for attackers. Download this […]

Re-Evaluate Your MFA Protection

MFA protection is ultimately only as strong as its weakest link. Without an MFA deployment that covers all organizational resources, these weak links will persist, potentially exposing your organization to risk.

Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR): Protecting the Exposed Attack Surface

Identity threats that utilize compromised credentials to for malicious access to targeted resource have become the chief concern for organizations’ security stakeholders. Neither one of the existing security products can deliver real-time protection against these attacks, making them account takeover, lateral movement and ransomware spread a critical, unaddressed risk. Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) […]

Top 5 Identity Protection Challenges for Manufacturing Organizations

It is common knowledge that manufacturing is one of the most targeted verticals and that threat actors launch data theft and ransomware operations on manufacturing companies daily. What is less commonly known is that the rise of identity threats’ part within the overall threat landscape collides with security weaknesses that are unique to this vertical, […]

Fortifying Identity Protection: The Silverfort Identity IR Playbook

An organization’s Incident Response Plan (IRP) is the set of processes followed by security teams to respond to an attack. It usually includes detecting the attack’s scope, containing it to prevent further spread, and eradicating adversarial presence and activities. While there’s an established IR playbook to handle the malware and network aspects of cyberattacks, the […]

Securing Campus: Solving Identity Protection Gaps in Education Environments

The education sector, including both K-12 and higher education, continues to be a high target for cyberattacks. Attack volume has increased by 179% in 2023 over the previous year, with the majority of attacks consisting of ransomware operations. Ransomware attacks use compromised credentials to spread throughout target environments. The continued success of this mode of […]