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According to research by IBM, organizations use an average of 83 separate security solutions. It is hardly surprising that 52% of security professionals identify complexity as the biggest impediment to effective operations. For IT and security leaders in mid-market organizations, who know they have gaps in security coverage, this challenge can feel particularly difficult to solve. At Bitdefender , we see this challenge play out consistently across mid-market environments. Most organizations have the fundamentals in place, such as Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP), email filtering, and patch management. However, many are not fully realizing the capabilities of these existing tools. This creates security gaps and, when combined with a lack of preventative exposure management controls, severely limits visibility across attack surfaces. Maximize Your ROI: Exploit Underused Tools Many mid-market organizations already have powerful Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) in place as part...

Identity-based attacks are the #1 cause of breaches, often exploiting weaknesses in traditional identity platforms. It's time for a proactive approach that addresses these gaps and stops threats before they strike. Identity has become the primary attack surface in cybersecurity. According to Forbes, 75% of cyberattacks leverage identity-based threats. Threat actors gain access using stolen credentials, compromised devices, and deepfake impersonation techniques, often bypassing traditional defenses without detection. Many identity platforms rely on MFA, such as push notifications and one-time passcodes (OTPs), which were once considered secure but are now frequently exploited through phishing, MFA fatigue, and man-in-the-middle attacks. The rise of generative AI has made these threats more effective and more prevalent.  To compensate, organizations have deployed tools like Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Network Detection and Response (NDR), and Identity Threat Detection ...

Coined in 2010 by Forrester Research , the term "zero trust" has long been hijacked by security vendors eager to take advantage of the hype that surrounds the concept. Today, it's so overused and misused that many see it as a meaningless buzzword—but that's far from the truth. In fact, its widespread misappropriation demonstrates the power of zero trust security. Why else would countless vendors try to capitalize on it? As they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Zero trust is not a mere label. Rather, zero trust is an architecture—though you'll also hear of a zero trust methodology, framework, paradigm, and infrastructure—and it's based on the idea of zero implicit trust, meaning no one should be trusted by default. The key zero trust principle of least-privileged access says a user should be given access only to a specific IT resource the user is authorized to access, at the moment that user needs it, and nothing more. Hence the zero trust maxim,...