i-Sight, April 23, 2020– 11 Cybersecurity Threats for 2020 (Plus 5 Solutions)
According to the 2018 Varonis Global Data Risk Report, 65 [percent] of companies use over 500 passwords that never expire.
“These accounts have a higher risk of showing up in online password dumps with valid passwords. Privileged and service accounts with non-expiring passwords are a cyber criminal’s best friend,” says Steve Tcherchian, CISSP and Chief Information Security Officer for XYPRO.
While “ensuring these passwords are stored properly, changed regularly, meet complexity and compliance requirements and are audited can be overwhelming to implement and manage,” companies can’t afford the potentially devastating data breaches poor passwords could cause.
To mitigate risk, Tcherchian suggests using two-factor authentication. This simple change makes it much harder for cybercriminals to breach your systems. Employees might be hesitant to use it at first, but “until we shift our mindset and sacrifice a little bit of convenience for a massive amount of security, attacks on privileged credentials will continue and increase in 2020.”
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Steve Tcherchian, CISSP, PCI-ISA, PCIP is the Chief Product Officer and Chief Information Security Officer for XYPRO Technology. Steve is on Forbes Technology Council, the NonStop Under 40 executive board, and part of the ANSI X9 Security Standards Committee.
With over 20 years in the cybersecurity field, Steve is responsible for the strategy and innovation of XYPRO’s security product line as well as overseeing XYPRO’s risk, compliance, and security to ensure the best experience for customers in the Mission-Critical computing marketplace.
Steve is an engaging and dynamic speaker who regularly presents on cybersecurity topics at conferences around the world.
