Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week we explore how credential stuffing attacks are evolving and why they pose a greater threat than meets the eye. Credential stuffing is perhaps the simplest form of cyberattack, but it continues to make headlines despite its lack of sophistication. It has become the attack method of choice for cybercriminals primarily because of its high success rate and ROI.

Problem: If there are thousands of employees scattered around hundreds of places, how do you keep your organization’s network safe? Solution: You should monitor your employees wherever they’re located, and devise a standard baseline of their behavior through machine learning techniques. By using that information, you can identify anomalies and protect your network from cyberattacks.

The ITIC 2020 Global Server Hardware, Server OS Reliability Report released in April found that reliability declined in 67 percent of servers over four years old when corporations failed to retrofit or upgrade the hardware to accommodate increased workloads. This highlights the pressing need for hardware monitor solutions and the need for immediate alerting mechanisms to ensure the longest possible lifespan for hardware.

In todays IP-centric world, it’s becoming increasingly complex to support network-intensive adaptations like cloud adoption and bring your own device (BYOD) polices. As an IT admin, you’re responsible for scanning and tracking your IP resources to ensure that network devices and end users can be allocated unique IP addresses to access your network.

The rules of customer engagement have changed drastically in the last decade, not only for direct customer-facing roles but also for internal customer-facing roles such as technical service team staff, NOC admins, and more. Organizations across the globe are now fully aware that great customer service from support teams and NOC teams can have a lasting impact on employee productivity, morale, and in turn, the organization’s overall revenue churn and growth.

User account creation is a long-winded process that involves various configurations. Such a tiresome, manual process is naturally prone to errors, especially while creating user accounts in bulk. Errors made in the user provisioning process will result in frustrated users calling the service desk to request permission to access resources, to be added to the appropriate groups, to update missing profile details, etc. Why provisioning users through the Admin Center is inefficient.

The mission for the ManageEngine Applications Manager team has always been simple: to provide a unified solution that helps organizations deliver a seamless end-user experience. Application performance significantly impacts operations. Tracking every element across your application stack, finding and fixing problematic components, and ensuring a flawless digital experience is crucial for seamless performance.

ManageEngine’s Log360 was recently honored with the CybersecAsia Award for the Best User and Entity Behavior Analytics software application. The award certifies the important role, and the innovative technology brought to the table by Log360 over the past two years. Elevated cybersecurity risks currently experienced by organizations have driven the sudden adoption of the cloud and increased workforce mobility.

A.F. Blakemore & Son Ltd is a renowned food retail and distribution company based in the United Kingdom. It is also a member of the Unitas Wholesale group and a significant supplier to the independent grocery sector across the UK. How OpManager helped A.F. Blakemore A.F. Blakemore has two internal data centers that process and manage logistics, retail, and distribution data. However, it did not have a separate tool for monitoring its network, which created problems.

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week we explore how the pandemic and the rise of the remote work culture have enabled digital transformation.