The cyberthreat landscape constantly changes, posing significant challenges for security professionals. Threat actors often evade traditional prevention-oriented security controls. In the first half of 2023, threat actors utilized valid credentials most often to gain entry to a corporate network and then disabled defenses to remain hidden.
This offered them plenty of time for network discovery, lateral movement, and data collection before exfiltrating and encrypting that data. While
attackers’ increasingly sophisticated activities should sound alarm bells, that same sophistication provides organizations ample opportunity to stop these attacks before a threat actor can achieve their objectives.