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Understanding the Access Maturity Model: A Guide for CISO
In today's evolving enterprise security landscape, how your organization manages access control can make or break your security posture. As companies grow, they typically progress through an Access Maturity Model – from a loose, high-trust environment to a rigorous Zero Trust framework. This journey spans four stages (Direct Access, Managed Access, Orchestrated Access, and Monitored Access), each with distinct implications for security, productivity, and scalability. Understanding these stages will help IT managers align IT security maturity with business growth, ensuring that enterprise security models keep pace with organizational needs.
Debarshi BasakMay 28, 2025
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The History and Evolution of Privileged Access Management (PAM): Securing Your Infrastructure
Privileged Access Management (PAM) is a cybersecurity approach aimed at protecting, controlling, and monitoring privileged accounts—such as administrator or root accounts—which have elevated access and pose significant risks if compromised. Understanding PAM’s evolution helps clarify why it’s critical for organizations today.
Debarshi BasakMay 22, 2025
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Access Security Requirements Across Major Compliance Frameworks
In today's threat landscape, ensuring secure access to systems and data isn't just best practice—it's a regulatory necessity. Compliance frameworks like ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIST, and GDPR mandate strict access control measures to protect sensitive information. In this guide, we'll break down the access security requirements for major compliance frameworks to help you align your IT security policies with regulatory standards.
Debarshi BasakMay 20, 2025
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Unlocking the Future of AI Agents: Secure A2A Protocol With Adaptive
In a major leap forward for artificial intelligence, Google has unveiled the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol—an open standard designed to enable seamless interoperability between AI agents across different platforms, languages, and systems. As organizations increasingly adopt multi-agent AI ecosystems, the need for secure, structured communication becomes essential.
Debarshi BasakMay 19, 2025
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Coinbase Cybersecurity Breach: What Happened and What You Need to Know
On May 11, 2025, Coinbase, Inc.—a leading cryptocurrency exchange and a subsidiary of Coinbase Global, Inc. (NASDAQ: COIN)—was the target of a major cybersecurity incident. The company disclosed this event in a Form 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on May 14, 2025. In this post, we break down what happened, what information was compromised, Coinbase's response, and what it means for users and investors alike.
Debarshi BasakMay 16, 2025
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ISO 42001 Explained: The New Global Standard for Ethical and Responsible AI Governance
ISO 42001 is a globally recognized standard developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). It offers a structured approach for organizations to develop, deploy, and govern AI systems in a trustworthy, ethical, and legally compliant way
Debarshi BasakMay 12, 2025
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5 Essential LLM Design Patterns for Building Effective Intelligent Agents
Building intelligent agents using large language models (LLMs) involves employing effective design patterns that enhance performance, scalability, and maintainability. This guide explores five critical LLM agent design patterns to boost efficiency and deliver superior results.
Debarshi BasakMay 2, 2025
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Understanding Non-Human Identities (NHI): The Hidden Threat in Secrets Management
Secrets and secret managers have long been a foundational component of application configuration and deployment. From API keys and database credentials to OAuth tokens and service accounts, secrets play a pivotal role in enabling applications to communicate securely. However, managing and securing these secrets presents a growing challenge — especially with the rise of Non-Human Identities (NHI)
Debarshi BasakApr 17, 2025
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Network Security Essentials: Firewalls and VPNs
Protect your network from unauthorized intrusion and data breaches with essential tools like firewalls and VPNs. Learn to configure firewall rules on AWS, use dynamic tools like firewalld or iptables, and explore different VPN types for enhanced security.
Chinmay ShrivastavaJul 4, 2024
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Data Fabric Layer for Scaling Organizations
Discover how Data Fabric centralizes data across various platforms, transforming business intelligence, cybersecurity, and multi-cloud strategies by mitigating risks, automating discovery, enforcing governance, and supporting real-time processing. Explore implementation challenges and why Adaptive's platform with features like Data Discovery, Classification, and Activity Monitoring enhances data security.
Chinmay ShrivastavaJun 4, 2024
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IAM isn’t enough to protect your resources
Explore the critical roles of AWS IAM and PAM in enhancing cybersecurity. Learn how they operate together to improve security management, ensure compliance, and protect sensitive information in organizations.
Chinmay ShrivastavaApr 12, 2024
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Is your network safe from the One Click Attack?
Explore the future of cyber attacks with advancements in AI, as new study reveals language learning models can autonomously identify vulnerabilities and launch attacks on a network. Delve into the complexity of traditional network attacks and the evolution of the One Click Attack, enabled by AI, as well as what organizations can do to protect their sensitive data amid more advanced threats.
Chinmay ShrivastavaMar 7, 2024
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3 Attack Vectors in the age of AI
Explore the challenges and security issues surrounding the use of AI and vector databases in organizations. Learn about potential vulnerabilities like data manipulation, phishing, and data insertion attacks and discover how to maintain a strong security posture through methods like data discovery in unstructured data, privileged access management, and database activity monitoring.
Chinmay ShrivastavaFeb 13, 2024
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Why Healthcare industry needs better Data Security?
An in-depth look into the critical nature of data privacy and protection in the healthcare industry. Highlights the role of HIPAA in ensuring data security, the implications of data breaches, and best practices for complying with regulations. The role of technology in managing and protecting patients' health information is also discussed.
Chinmay ShrivastavaJan 22, 2024
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3 reasons why we require AI regulations
Delve into the emerging field of AI and upcoming regulations set to ensure its ethical development. The article details the concerns surrounding AI, data privacy, and the importance of transparency and compliance for all companies involved in AI R&D, services, and integration. Lastly, discover why regular audits and continuous monitoring of data security are vital for organizations in the evolving technological landscape.
Chinmay ShrivastavaDec 19, 2023
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4 Unique Ways to Monitor Database Activity without Fault
Explore the challenges of database activity monitoring in cloud systems and remote workforces, and learn about four effective techniques to overcome these issues. Understand how each method from agentless replication logs to network-based agents, and database triggers to general logs, are useful in different scenarios. Finally, discover how Adaptive offers a comprehensive solution with sensitive data classification, policy formulation, and privileged access management to ensure a robust security posture for your organization.
Chinmay ShrivastavaDec 12, 2023
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How DAM evolved into DDR?
An exploration into how the traditional model of Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) has evolved into a more comprehensive and versatile model, Data Detection and Response (DDR), due to the increasing complexity of data security across multi-cloud environments.
Chinmay ShrivastavaDec 6, 2023
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Structure in Unstructured data: Using AI for Data Security
In 2023, organizations globally are expected to generate over 73,000 exabytes of unstructured data - data that is not explicitly structured. ML and AI models can efficiently go through large amounts of information and identify underlying patterns in the unstructured data as well to deliver greater business value.
Chinmay ShrivastavaNov 28, 2023
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Why do you need Active Monitoring with Zero Trust?
Zero Trust treats external and internal users as potential malicious actors, requiring authentication at each step, and limits lateral movement in the network.
Chinmay ShrivastavaNov 16, 2023
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What is DSPM and how is it different from DAM?
DSPM focuses on securing sensitive data stored in the cloud, whereas DAM safeguards all types of data within an organization, not just data stored in cloud.
Chinmay ShrivastavaNov 14, 2023
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What is Network Access Control (NAC)?
Network Access Control is an approach used to manage and regulate access to network infrastructure to ensure that only authorized users access the network.
Akhilesh KatkarNov 8, 2023
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What is Sensitive Data and Why it needs to be Regulated?
Sensitive Data is any information that must be protected from unauthorized access to safeguard an individual or an organization.
Chinmay ShrivastavaOct 26, 2023
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Why the world needs to rethink Infrastructure Access?
Understanding the tailwinds of what makes modern day infrastructure access complex and how we need to rethink the infra access strategies to manage it.
Ronak MassandAug 14, 2023
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Evolution of Internal Networking and Access
Understand the evolution of Networking and Access within organizations and adoption of advanced networking solutions for remote work.
Debarshi BasakJun 15, 2023
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Understanding SOX Compliance: Benefits and Challenges
SOX is a compliance standard introduced with the aim of protecting common investors from any malicious practices by publicly-listed corporations.
Akhilesh KatkarJun 9, 2023
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Privileged Identity Management (PIM): A Brief Guide
Privileged Identity Management enables organizations to manage who can access what resources within an organization such as DBs, servers, and SSH keys.
Himanshu GargApr 6, 2023
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What is the Principle of Least Privilege (POLP)?
Principle of Least Privilege is a concept based on limiting a user's access only to minimum resources required for a task to eliminate unauthorized access.
Neeraj NabarMar 16, 2023
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HIPAA Compliance Checklist 2023: The 8-step Easy Guide
The HIPAA Compliance Checklist 2023 is an 8-step easy guide to help organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and safeguard the privacy and security of PHI.
Akhilesh KatkarMar 10, 2023
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Identity and Access Management (IAM) explained
Identity & Access Management is a framework ensuring only authorized individuals in an org have access to resources needed to carry out their responsibilities.
Debarshi BasakFeb 14, 2023
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Understanding SOC 2: Types, Principles and Benefits
SOC 2 compliance is important to all businesses for data privacy, security and also assuring their customers about safeguarding their confidential information.
Ronak MassandFeb 8, 2023
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Credential Management explained: Best Practices
Credential management is a process of creating, storing, and using digital credentials and certificates, to authenticate and authorize users or devices.
RatinJan 25, 2023
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Authentication Protocols: Types and Uses
Authentication protocols define contents of the authentication data, its mode of transfer, and the communication between a server and a client in the network.
Ronak MassandJan 15, 2023
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