Articles tagged with enterprise security address the unique cybersecurity challenges facing large organizations. Topics include network segmentation, zero-trust architecture, identity and access management, threat detection at scale, and building security operations centers to protect complex IT environments.
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The Breach That Made "Trust" a Dirty Word In 2020, the SolarWinds breach gave threat actors access to the internal networks of at least nine U.S. federal agencies and over 100 private companies. The attackers moved laterally for months — undetected — because once they were inside the network
A Single Spreadsheet Cost One Hospital $3 Million In 2023, a healthcare employee uploaded patient records to an unauthorized cloud spreadsheet tool to "make things easier" for her team. Nobody in IT knew about it. No encryption, no access controls, no audit trail. When that tool suffered a
In 2023, a financial services employee signed up for an unsanctioned file-sharing app using their corporate email. Within weeks, a threat actor exploited a vulnerability in that app and exfiltrated 11,000 customer records. The security team didn't even know the app existed. That's shadow IT
The Breach That Started With "Company2024!" In January 2024, a mid-size healthcare company lost 2.3 million patient records. The root cause wasn't a sophisticated zero-day exploit. It wasn't a nation-state threat actor. It was an employee who reused the same password across their
A Marketing Team's Slack Alternative Nearly Took Down an Entire Hospital Network In 2023, a regional healthcare system discovered that its marketing department had been using an unapproved messaging platform for over 14 months. Nobody in IT knew. The platform stored patient-adjacent data with no encryption, no access
In May 2023, MOVEit Transfer suffered a mass exploitation that ultimately affected over 2,700 organizations and exposed data on roughly 95 million individuals. Some of those organizations had a tested data breach response plan ready to execute. Most didn't. The difference between the two groups wasn'
The Salesforce Instance Nobody Knew About In 2022, a mid-size healthcare company discovered that one of its marketing teams had been running an entirely separate Salesforce instance — for eleven months. Patient-adjacent data sat in an environment with no encryption at rest, no access controls, and no logging. The IT security
Your Employees Already Built a Second IT Department A marketing manager signs up for an AI writing tool using her corporate email. A sales rep stores client contracts in a personal Dropbox. An engineering team spins up an AWS instance without telling anyone. None of these people are malicious. Every
The Breach That Started With a Spreadsheet App In 2023, a midsize healthcare company discovered that an employee had been syncing patient records to an unauthorized cloud storage service for over eight months. The service had no encryption, no access controls, and no audit logging. By the time the security
Your Employees Already Built a Second IT Department In 2023, a Gartner survey found that 41% of employees acquired, modified, or created technology outside of IT's visibility. By now, that number has only grown. If you're asking what is shadow IT, the short answer is this:
