High-profile, wide-ranging cybersecurity breaches—the SolarWinds supply chain attack, the Colonial Pipeline ransomware incident, Russian hacking of Microsoft—have brutally exposed the consequences of having inadequate identity security controls. Stolen or mishandled credentials, lateral movement by hackers looking for sensitive data across a compromised network, and privilege escalation (in which a hacker gains unauthorised access) remain the… Read more »

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