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Table of Contents Third-party vendors and external identities now form your primary security boundary. Threat actors have shifted away from exploiting software vulnerabilities. Today, they target the identity perimeter. The traditional network perimeter is gone. It has mutated into a distributed network of identities encompassing employees, vendors, and third-party integrations. Trust now relies e...
The narrative presented here is a compelling steelman of the modern cybersecurity threat landscape, emphasizing the shift from network perimeters to identity-based attacks. The article effectively highlights the systemic crisis in credential management and the professionalization of credential theft, using recent breaches as case studies to underscore the urgency of the problem. The strongest version of this narrative is that traditional security measures are obsolete, and organizations must ado...