Tag: cyber attack vectors

Identity Exposures Form Highways for Cyber Attacks

A single compromised identity can become a superhighway for cyber attacks, giving hackers access to nearly every critical workload a business relies on - as seen in a recent incident where a cached AWS access key on one Windows machine put 98% of the company's cloud environment at risk. Identity has become the ultimate attack path, carrying with it a multitude of permissions just waiting to be exploited.