Identity is the perimeter
Most incidents at mid-sized businesses begin with a credential, not an exotic exploit. Enforcing multi-factor authentication, removing shared accounts and reviewing access quarterly addresses a disproportionate share of real risk.
Offboarding deserves particular attention: access that outlives employment is one of the most common findings in our assessments.
Know your attack surface
You cannot protect systems you have forgotten about. Maintain an inventory of internet-facing assets, including subdomains, staging environments and third-party integrations.
Automated discovery run on a schedule catches the environments that get spun up for a demo and never shut down.
- Inventory of internet-facing services and owners
- Dependency and container image scanning in CI
- Secret scanning across repositories
- Centralised logging with alerting on privileged actions
Practise the response
A response plan that has never been rehearsed will not hold under pressure. A short tabletop exercise once or twice a year exposes gaps in contact lists, decision authority and communication far more cheaply than a real incident.
Written by Nexora Security Practice. If you would like to discuss how this applies to your environment, we are happy to talk it through.
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