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  2. Identity Blind Spots on the Network Layer

    September 25th, 2025 by Paul Hunter | Posted in Perspective, Research, Security Outcomes |

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    Webinar Title: Zero Trust Falls Short Without Network Identity: Lessons from Salt Typhoon Date: October 1, 2025 Registration: Save your spot here Abstract Identity for users, applications, servers, and cloud has matured. Network devices are often the exception. Shared device accounts, SSH key sprawl, limited per-command authorization, and weak session evidence create a gap that…

  3. Salt Typhoon: How Network Admin Paths Became Attack Paths

    September 23rd, 2025 by Paul Hunter | Posted in News, Perspective, Security Outcomes |

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    Webinar Title: Zero Trust Falls Short Without Network Identity: Lessons from Salt Typhoon Date: October 1, 2025 Registration: Save your spot here Abstract Salt Typhoon highlights how valid credentials and built in tools can turn network administration into an attacker highway. This post walks a likely attack chain in plain language and shows where identity…

  4. Do Your CI/CD Pipelines Need Identities? Yes.

    September 4th, 2025 by Paul Hunter | Posted in Best Practices, Perspective, Research, Security Outcomes |

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    If one principal can do anything, one mistake can undo everything. I’ve read too many incident reviews where the “automation user” turned out to be the attacker’s best friend. One token. All the doors. Code, artifacts, production. We built CI/CD to go fast. We accidentally made it the fastest path to a breach. Just like…

  5. How Convergent Identity-Based Security Reduces Risk, Increases Efficiency

    August 26th, 2025 by Paul Hunter | Posted in Best Practices, News, Perspective, Research |

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    This blog was originally published by Bravura Security here.   In an era where 80% of data breaches involve compromised credentials and privilege escalation, traditional identity and access management (IAM) and privileged access management solutions (PAM) solutions are falling behind. While organizations have invested millions in layered implementations rooted in traditional enterprise approaches, these solutions…

  6. 2025’s Identity Security Storm: AI, IoT and Emerging Threats

    August 20th, 2025 by Paul Hunter | Posted in Best Practices, News, Perspective, Research, Security Outcomes |

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    This blog was originally published by Bravura Security here. A stark reality faces modern enterprises: 94% of cyber attacks now specifically target identity systems, not traditional network defenses. As threats rapidly evolve, organizations struggling with fragmented identity and access management (IAM), privileged and access management (PAM), and password management architectures face increasing risk from sophisticated…

  7. How to Prevent $4M Breaches with Unified IAM and PAM Defense

    August 5th, 2025 by Paul Hunter | Posted in Best Practices, How To Advice, Perspective |

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    The identity security landscape has reached a critical tipping point. As AI-powered attack tools become readily available, attackers target identity credentials and privileged access with unprecedented sophistication and scale. Traditional fragmented security approaches are crumbling under the weight of automated threats that can simultaneously exploit both identity and privilege vulnerabilities.  According to EMA Research, the…

  8. Mastering Financial Services Compliance With IAM and PAM

    June 25th, 2025 by Paul Hunter | Posted in Best Practices, Perspective, Research |

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    This blog was originally published by Bravura here. Managing data access is an ongoing journey for businesses in the financial services industry. Policies such as the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) establish regulations that your business must follow when implementing any identity access management (IAM) or privileged access management (PAM) tool. Auditors will check your system for compliance…

  9. Building Zero Trust Security Posture for Secure Privileged Access Management Journey

    February 18th, 2025 by Vaughn-Shane Camarda | Posted in Best Practices, How To Advice |

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    This blog was originally posted by Arcon on their blog page. You can read the original here. Overview Today, we are experiencing a growing assortment of applications, systems, APIs, and data that is scattered across IT networks in distributed IT infrastructure and multi-cloud environments. This assortment of critical information is constantly at risk from unauthorized…

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