Cybersecurity Insights

Online identity theft, simply put, is impersonation on an online platform. If someone else pretends to be you — either by stealing your credentials and logging into your account or by creating a fake account that others believe is yours – then your identity has been stolen. There are a number of ways – data … Continue reading Prevent Online Identity Theft with Akku

Data protection and data privacy are so closely linked that people (and sometimes even organizations) tend to think of them as synonyms. However, understanding the difference between the two is crucial to ensuring that both protection and privacy are maintained.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has been effective in the USA since 1996.  The Act actually has five different section titles, namely Health Insurance Reform, Administrative Simplification, Tax-Related Health Provisions, Application and Enforcement of Group Health Plan Requirements, and Revenue Offsets – however, the mention of ‘HIPAA Compliance’ most often refers to … Continue reading Healthcare Data, HIPAA Compliance, and Akku

If your organization relies on the cloud for a majority of its operations, you may want to look closer at the type of architecture your security solution uses – whether it is agent-based or agentless. While some might say that it is irrelevant and that you should focus only on the security solution’s efficiency, we … Continue reading Agent-based Cloud Security Solution? No thanks!

In recent times, you might have noticed user accounts being compromised by the millions, and yet companies refute these claims saying that their systems are secure and have not been attacked. In these cases, the companies are right – instead of a direct attack, the hackers may have performed an attack called ‘credential stuffing’. In … Continue reading Beware of Credential Stuffing

While it is natural to feel apprehensive on the cloud, especially if you are new to it, remember that there are a number of ways to stay in control of your organization’s applications and data, even while ensuring that authorized users can access them with greater ease. Here are 7 ways in which Akku, the … Continue reading 7 Ways in Which Akku can Help you Address Security Challenges

“irgvctxmsr” – sounds like gibberish, doesn’t it? But if you were to decrypt this string using a mono-alphabet shift cipher where each letter has been shifted to the right by 4 numbers, you would see that it spells “encryption”! Protecting critical data and information by encrypting them was first performed by Julius Caesar in 120 … Continue reading Hashing And Salting – The What And How

A brute-force attack is a type of cybercrime which involves automated hacking activity using bots. The primary aim of a brute-force attack is to crack a password in order to gain access to a user account in an unauthorized manner. Using the automation tool, an attacker repetitively attempts different alpha-numeric combinations at considerable speed – … Continue reading 3 Important steps to improve network security against brute-force attacks

As organizations increasingly place their data and applications across multiple locations on the cloud, zero trust security is rapidly gaining ground as the network security model of choice among enterprises. Zero Trust Security is a security model in which a user, irrespective of whether he/she is within or outside the network perimeter, requires an additional … Continue reading What is Zero Trust Security?