Browsing: Segmentation

The advisory arrived from CISA on August 12, 2026, and it read like most of the ones before it: patch known exploited vulnerabilities, keep offline immutable backups, and segment the network so a single infected laptop can’t become a company-wide outage. That last instruction is the one most organizations still skip. The NIST Zero Trust…

Threat actors are exploiting weaknesses and vulnerabilities in physical infrastructure to infiltrate networks to steal data and infect systems with ransomware and other malicious payloads. Since 2013, when Target USA’s point-of-sale systems were compromised through an attack chain that started at an air conditioning system, organisations have been on notice to harden and protect infrastructure.