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Salesforce Is Mission-Critical, but That Doesn't Mean It's Protected At the beating heart of customer operations, the scope of Salesforce goes well and beyond traditional customer relationship management (CRM) systems. As a system of records, a sales engine, a service dashboard, and a repository for years of business-critical insight, deals flow through it continuously. Strategies depend on it. Customer relationships live or die by what they contain.  Yet, despite this, a dangerous misconception persists: "It's in the cloud, so it must be safe." Unfortunately, this assumption is as costly as it is common.  Here's the reality. Salesforce operates under a shared responsibility model , meaning your cloud provider — in this case, Salesforce — is responsible for platform uptime, infrastructure integrity, and security of the cloud. But you, the customer, are responsible for its actual content (your data, your metadata, and your configurations). So, while Salesforce protects th...

While emerging risks like AI-generated malware capture headlines, the reality of today's threat landscape is more straightforward. Most modern attacks, including ransomware, are backed by manual hacking operations. Attackers carefully navigate systems, using a "Living Off the Land" (LOTL) approach, to exploit legitimate system utilities. To figure out exactly how common these LOTL binaries are, we analyzed 700,000 security incidents from our Bitdefender GravityZone platform along with telemetry data (legitimate usage) from the last 90 days. Security incidents were not simple alerts, but correlated events, and we analyzed the whole chain of commands to identify how frequently attackers are using LOTL binaries. The result? 84% of major attacks (incidents with high severity) involved the use of LOTL binaries. For validation, we also examined our MDR data and found a consistent trend: 85% of incidents involved LOTL techniques. While this was our internal research to suppor...

Data Resilience is No Longer Optional Even in 2025, over half of all businesses suffer devastating data loss from ransomware attacks, configuration errors, or system crashes — yet only 15% of enterprises treat SaaS data backup as a strategic priority. While that number is projected to surge to 75% by 2028 , many organizations today overlook this critical component and risk falling dangerously behind or worse.  Data protection is more than an IT issue, and it takes more than your standard backup solution to reconcile this problem. As threats evolve rapidly, data protection is now an essential strategic priority. Businesses must respond by building resilient, cloud-native backup strategies that ensure data stays protected, available, and uncompromised, no matter the circumstances. Breaking Free from Legacy Constraints with SaaS-Driven Flexibility The modern enterprise landscape has transformed. Hybrid and multi-cloud environments have overcome their once-trendy labels, having b...

Many of the day-to-day digital operations of businesses, governments, and critical infrastructure have one thing in common: Microsoft. From the Microsoft Windows operating systems powering endpoints and servers, to Azure's rapidly growing cloud services, Microsoft's products are everywhere, making the company and its products attractive targets for threat actors seeking to exploit vulnerabilities at scale.  With more than 1.4 billion Windows users around the globe and the adoption of platforms like Microsoft 365, Active Directory, and Azure surging, a single exploitable vulnerability in a Microsoft product can open the door to privilege escalation, lateral movement, or ransomware deployments that impact tens of thousands of interconnected systems. Whether nation state or financially motivated, modern cyber-crime syndicates will consistently take the path of least resistance, and vulnerable assets are a reliable attack vector. For twelve years, the Microsoft Vulnerabilities Repor...

As data breaches and cyber threats become the norm rather than the exception, the imperative to fortify cybersecurity measures has become critical. Microsoft 365, the leading enterprise productivity platform, is at the heart of many organizations' daily operations — and therefore is a prime target for cyber-attackers. Ransomware remains one of the most aggressive cyber threats to organizations. A reported 76% of businesses have experienced at least one attack within the last year , the results of which yielded disrupted operations, substantial financial losses, and reputational damage. For SaaS platforms like Microsoft 365, the threat is even more pronounced due to the vast amounts of sensitive data processed and stored daily.  Below, we will investigate the cybersecurity landscape surrounding Microsoft 365. As we do so, we will examine the prevalence of ransomware threats and identify many commonly implemented and robust strategies that are proven to enhance cyber resilience an...

Throughout history, societies have protected their most valuable assets by building walls, fortresses, and moats. Whether it was a medieval castle or an ancient city-state, security meant keeping threats on the outside and creating barriers around the things that mattered most.  We took these principles with us as we moved into the digital age, designing network security with firewalls, access controls, and gated perimeters to protect digital assets. Firewalls and network devices became our virtual walls, defining trusted and untrusted zones, and keeping the "bad actors" at the gate. For years, this perimeter-based approach was the primary line of defense in the world of cybersecurity, establishing a digital fortress around systems and data. But just as history has shown us that walls and borders can be breached, so too has modern cybersecurity taught us that no perimeter is foolproof. As organizations increasingly connect their IT systems to the wider internet and integrate the...

In today's hyper-connected digital world, the importance of robust data protection is undeniable. For businesses of all sizes, the need to safeguard critical information has moved from a secondary IT concern to a boardroom-level issue. This heightened urgency is driven by the increasing frequency and complexity of cyberattacks, particularly ransomware, which have the potential to cripple operations, cause catastrophic financial losses, and in some cases, irreparably damage a company's reputation. Ransomware attacks are no longer isolated incidents affecting just a handful of organizations. They have evolved into sophisticated, organized, and relentless operations targeting businesses of every scale and across every industry. With the rise in these attacks, the need for an effective ransomware recovery strategy has become one of the most pressing issues in data protection — and central to this conversation is Microsoft 365, which plays a pivotal role in the day-to-day operations of mi...