KnowBe4, a provider of one of the world\u2019s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platforms, recently announced it has launched a new, complimentary tool called the Browser Password Inspector to help better protect organisations from ransomware attacks, credential theft and account takeovers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The issue with saving passwords in browsers is that many users are reusing the same passwords for work and personal accounts, which puts organisations at a higher risk. The 2018 Global Password Security Report<\/em> found that 50% of users have the same passwords for both personal and work accounts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The new Browser Password Inspector inspects all available user machines on an organisation\u2019s network and identifies their at-risk users by scanning and searching for passwords saved in the browser. Password Browser Inspector also checks to see if users are using known weak passwords, old passwords or using the same password across multiple sites. Browser Password Inspector then generates a detailed but secure report on the user accounts affected to show the organisation\u2019s vulnerability to credential theft, account takeovers, falling victim to a data breach or a network-wide ransomware infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSaving often-used passwords in a browser may seem convenient, but users should think twice before doing this because the bad guys can go after them, leaving an organisation more vulnerable to cyberattacks,\u201d said Stu Sjouwerman, CEO, KnowBe4. \u201cThis new tool will help you to stop the bad guys from finding and dumping passwords that they find in employees\u2019 web browsers. IT admins can quickly identify password security vulnerabilities in Chrome, Firefox and Edge web browsers and examine browser-saved credentials of your organisation\u2019s Active Directory.\u201d KnowBe4, a provider of one of the world\u2019s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platforms, recently announced it has launched a new, complimentary tool called the Browser Password Inspector to help better protect organisations from ransomware attacks, credential theft and account takeovers. The issue with saving passwords in browsers is that many users are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":40401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,29,93],"tags":[15082],"class_list":["post-40368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enterprise-security","category-software","category-top-stories","tag-browser-password-inspector"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40383,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40368\/revisions\/40383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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