GEC NEWS WIREPalo Alto Networks had made enhancements to its Next-Generation Security Platform. Lee Klarich, EVP, Product Management, Palo Alto Networks said, “W e have too often seen headlines that highlight credential theft as one of the primary methods cyber adversaries use to gain access to networks, systems and assets. For years, there has been an absence of an effective and scalable way for organizations to address this challenge. We are pleased to introduce these unique and industry-leading capabilities as part of our Next-Generation Security Platform and to deliver yet another innovation among many designed to help organizations prevent cyber breaches.”
Most organizations continue to keep simple password based credentials as the primary means of allowing users access to systems. Hence it is easier for an attacker to steal passwords than it is to find and hack a susceptible system or effectively avoid malware detection and threat prevention technologies. In turn this leads to theft of valuable assets of an organization by these cyber adversaries.
The traditional ways to prevent credential phishing are rudimentary, manual, limited and mostly bank on teaching employees and classifying a phishing site before someone else comes across it. So if the organization’s security products miss a new phishing site, the only remedy is to hope that the user hasn’t entered his or her credentials. In fact, password-only-based methods to authentication are very common and they leave applications exposed to credential exploitation and threats by attackers.
