Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesPrivilege creep is the gradual accumulation of access rights beyond what an individual needs to do his or her job. In information technology, a privilege is an identified right that a particular end user has to a particular system resource, such as a file folder or virtual machine. By Crystal Bedell Privilege creep often occurs when an employee changes job responsibilities within the
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesThe principle of least privilege (POLP) is a concept in computer security that limits users’ access rights to only what are strictly required to do their jobs. Users are granted permission to read, write or execute only the files or resources necessary to do their jobs. This principle is also known as the access control principle or the principle of minimal privilege. By
Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteMTBF (mean time between failures) is a measure of how reliable a hardware product or component is. Courtesy Post: By TechTarget Contributor For most components, the measure is typically in thousands or even tens of thousands of hours between failures. For example, a hard disk drive may have a mean time between failures of 300,000 hours. A desired MTBF can
Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesHigh availability (HA) is the ability of a system to operate continuously without failing for a designated period of time. HA works to ensure a system meets an agreed-upon operational performance level. In information technology (IT), a widely held but difficult-to-achieve standard of availability is known as five-nines availability, which means the system or product is available 99.999% of the time. ByBen Lutkevich
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesPen Testing as a Service (PTaaS) is a cloud service that provides information technology (IT) professionals with the resources they need to conduct and act upon point-in-time and continuous penetration tests. By TechTarget Contributor The goal of PTaaS is to help organizations build successful vulnerability management programs that can find, prioritize and remediate security threats quickly and efficiently. In IT security, it
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesMemory cards are used to expand the storage capacity of mobile phones, SLRs, Dash cam, Drone and the other electronic products. Tekmart Africa Courtesy Post By Shikha Choudhary Normally we refer to the memory card as SD card. But in fact, what we call them is inaccurate, there are many types of memory cards, SD card is only one of
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesA disaster recovery test (DR test) is the examination of each step in a disaster recovery plan as outlined in an organization’s business continuity/disaster recovery (BCDR) planning process. Evaluating the DR plan helps ensure that an organization can recover data, restore business critical applications and continue operations after an interruption of services. By James Alan Miller and Ed Hannan In many organizations, DR testing is
Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteArray-based replication is an approach to data backup in which compatible storage arrays use built-in software to automatically copy data from one storage array to another. By John Hilliard Array-based replication software runs on one or more storage controllers resident in disk storage systems, synchronously or asynchronously replicating data between similar storage array models at the logical unit number (LUN) or volume block level. The term can refer to the creation
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesA man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attack is one in which the attacker secretly intercepts and relays messages between two parties who believe they are communicating directly with each other. The attack is a type of eavesdropping in which the entire conversation is controlled by the attacker. Courtesy Post By TechTarget Contributor Sometimes referred to as a session hijacking attack, MiTM has a strong chance
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesA zero-trust model is a security framework that fortifies the enterprise by removing implicit trust and enforcing strict user and device authentication throughout the network. BySandra Gittlen and Laura Fitzgibbons This guide goes in-depth into the origins of zero trust, its architecture, the technology and products that comprise a zero-trust model, as well as how to implement and manage zero
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