Articles by Ashur Kanoon

Life after LastPass

Last year in 2022, there were 1,802 data compromises affecting more than 422 million people – but the LastPass data breach is the one that has security practitioners chatting. The original incident happened in August of 2022. Initially, we were told it was a “minor”...

The Self-Service Security Payday

The idea of customer self-service has been around since 1833 when Percival Everett’s first self-service vending machines appeared in London, selling postcards. But when it comes to IT, many organizations find self-service daunting (though they agree it can be a path...

Internet Threat Protection Advanced Functionality

Protecting users against malicious sites and enabling acceptable use policy (AUP) may be accomplished using some basic tools, however, modern organizations don’t have the resources or time to discover, track, and analyze millions of domains. Banyan Security’s Internet...

Preventing Spoofed Domains

So you’re in charge of your organization’s DNS and hybrid access, and part of the job is providing DNS records to make systems easily accessible but you also need to make sure that you’re preventing spoofed domains, which can lead to a security breach. The first...

Continuous Authentication vs. Continuous Authorization

The negative effects of checking for user credentials at the beginning of a session and granting hours-long access have surfaced many issues, sometimes leading to major security incidents, for users and organizations alike. Continuously checking is an option but not...

All About Consumer VPN

As a frequent contributor and daily reader of r/VPN on Reddit, I see a lot of consumer VPN questions for vendors like NordVPN, ExpressVPN, OpenVPN, and Private Internet Access (PIA). Let’s look at a few use cases for these and a few things to consider when looking for...

Enabling BYOD and Unregistered Devices

With Black Friday and Cyber Monday out of the way and the holidays right around the corner, IT folks are preparing to get the usual “new device” calls and helpdesk tickets. With over $9B spent on Black Friday itself, you can pretty much guarantee some of your...

The Dreaded SaaS Downtime

The more prospects I talk to, the more I hear about the dreaded SaaS downtime. Downtime isn’t just an inconvenience. Organizations count on SaaS vendors to ensure certain levels of uptime, so that the organizations themselves can continue to run their business. So,...

Securing RDP

Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft which provides a user with a graphical interface to connect to a Windows-based computer over a network connection. The user employs RDP client software for this purpose, while the other...

Retiring Your Covid-Era VPN

It’s been almost 3 years since the world changed and everyone learned what a pandemic is. Students were told to stay home, and school district IT teams were trying to figure out how to get everyone together so that learning continued. With kids at home, working...