If you thought masked hackers in dark rooms spreading malware were your only security concern, think again. In its Insider Threat Report for 2018, Crowd Research Partners brought to light that almost 90 percent of organizations find themselves vulnerable to insider threats. What’s worse is that 50 percent of these organizations experienced an insider attack in 2018.

Chances are you’ve heard of traditional credential-based attacks on Active Directory (AD) and cloud applications—brute force attacks, dictionary attacks, and keylogging, to name a few. There’s now another attack type you should familiarize yourself with: password spray attacks. In this blog, we’ll analyze why you should be wary of them and the best way to tackle them.

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we look at the rise of augmented analytics and how it tackles the ever growing need for intelligent, data-driven insights.

The latest build for OpManager 12.3 has been gaining some recognition from industry analysts. Recently, a UK-based business insights and analytics company, IT Pro, wrote a positive review of OpManager. IT Pro highlighted all of OpManager’s latest enhancements and features. OpManager also received an IT Pro Recommended Award, and we are elated.

The secret to exceptional network management is periodically identifying and diagnosing network problems. Putting your experts at the network operations center (NOC) all day watching for a device to go down isn’t the best use of your workforce’s time. There has to be a smarter way to view potential network pitfalls without being glued to the chair in your NOC.

As you may know, Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) developed by Microsoft. Several industries rely on SQL database servers for data storage and access because it supports a wide range of transaction processing, business intelligence, and analytics applications in corporate IT environments.

We’re happy to announce that ManageEngine has been positioned in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management[i] (SIEM) and its Critical Capabilities for Security Information and Event Management[ii] research report for the third consecutive year.