Microsegmentation Needs to Isolate All Lateral Movement – Including Service Account Abuse

Originally published by TrueFort. Written by Matt Hathaway. The devastating part of a cyber attack is when it reaches application environments with sensitive data to steal or encrypt. While microsegmentation is recognized as the best way to minimize the spread of the initial compromise, it cannot truly isolate via network blocking alone. Controlling lateral movement requires that you also prevent service accounts from running commands on workloads where they aren’t required for application op...

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