Understand the Zero Trust security model, which operates on the principle of never trust, always verify. Posts cover Zero Trust architecture, identity verification, micro-segmentation, least-privilege access, and practical steps for implementing Zero Trust frameworks across enterprise environments.
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The Breach That Started With a Single SaaS Login In January 2023, Mailchimp disclosed its second major breach in less than a year. The cause? A threat actor used social engineering to trick an employee into handing over credentials to an internal tool. That single compromised SaaS login exposed 133
A Single Text Message Cost One Company $20 Million In August 2022, a Twilio employee received a text message that looked like it came from IT. It said the employee's password had expired and offered a helpful link. That single tap led to a breach that cascaded across
In December 2020, security firm FireEye discovered that SolarWinds — a company most people had never heard of — had been compromised by a threat actor who injected malicious code into a routine software update. That single update shipped to roughly 18,000 organizations, including the U.S. Treasury, the Department of
The Breach That Didn't Start With You In January 2023, Mailchimp disclosed its second breach in under a year — this time through a social engineering attack on an employee. But the real damage radiated outward. Every company using Mailchimp as a vendor suddenly had a problem they didn&
The $350 Million Lesson Marriott Learned After Closing the Deal When Marriott acquired Starwood Hotels in 2016, the deal looked like a hospitality industry win. What nobody caught during cybersecurity due diligence was that Starwood's reservation system had been compromised since 2014. The breach wasn't discovered
In 2022, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 800,000 complaints totaling losses exceeding $10.3 billion — a 49% increase over 2021. When I talk to the people behind those numbers, a pattern emerges fast: they didn't understand what was happening to them because
In March 2022, Okta confirmed that the Lapsus$ threat actor group had compromised a support engineer's laptop and accessed internal systems for five days before detection. Five days. That's an eternity when an attacker has a foothold inside your environment. The breach highlighted a brutal truth:
In March 2022, Okta confirmed that the Lapsus$ threat actor group had breached a third-party support engineer's laptop and accessed internal systems. The attack didn't exploit some exotic zero-day vulnerability. It started with compromised credentials — a single point of failure in what should have been a
In April 2022, researchers at Wiz discovered that Microsoft Azure's PostgreSQL Flexible Server had vulnerabilities allowing cross-account database access. They called it ExtraReplica, and it affected thousands of Azure databases. This wasn't a theoretical exercise — it was a real demonstration that security in cloud computing remains
In March 2022, Lapsus$ — a threat actor group largely composed of teenagers — breached Microsoft, Nvidia, Samsung, and Okta. They didn't use sophisticated zero-day exploits. They used social engineering. They bought credentials. They tricked employees. And they walked through the front door of some of the most well-resourced security
