Closing the security blind spots that are a prime entry point for attacks
What if the biggest cybersecurity risk is not the attack you fear most, but the weakness you forgot or never knew was there?
Many organizations worry that the next breach will come from a highly sophisticated attack so advanced that nothing could have stopped it. That fear is understandable, but the truth is often more uncomfortable.
In many cases, breaches do not begin with an unstoppable threat. They begin with a blind spot such as a missed patch, a dormant account, a device outside corporate security control or a firewall left exposed. These small gaps that are easy to overlook are exactly the kind of gaps attackers know how to find.
This is the reality, and one of the key findings from our recent report, which found that, in most cases, it is preventable security issues that open the door. Unpatched firewalls, rogue endpoints, dormant identities and misconfigurations continue to...
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