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 […]

State of Emergency: Identity Security Blind Spots Endanger Healthcare Services

Healthcare organizations are among the most targeted sectors for identity-related attacks as they utilize a wide range of systems and employ different security practices for each. Healthcare organizations are currently faced with very complex identity infrastructures, little to no visibility into their large numbers of service accounts, and a lack of ability to protect their […]

Overcoming the Security Blind Spots of Service Accounts

In today’s rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape, 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 eBook […]

Solving Identity Protection Gaps in Telecom Environments

The telecom industry keeps the world connected. Whether it is private communications or business interactions, it is an integral component of our daily lives, and we take many elements for granted. With the development of technology, the threat landscape of the telecom industry has also changed, causing a surge in cyber-attacks specifically targeting the industry […]