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the importance of privilege and the timeless security concept of least privilege . It also emboldens BeyondTrust ’ s mission to provide the broadest level of visibility and protection of paths to privilege .”
Despite overall stability in the Microsoft vulnerabilities data , the report ’ s analysis of critical vulnerabilities and innovative threat tactics predict now is not the time to get complacent :
• Vulnerabilities and unpatched systems will continue to provide threat actors a means of attack .
• Expanding Microsoft technologies will continue to introduce new attack surfaces .
• Novel vulnerabilities will continue to emerge as threat actors uncover innovative pathways through Microsoft ’ s systems .
• Investments in research and security practices will continue to shift the way threat actors gain their foothold , as it becomes easier to steal an identity to gain access than to exploit a vulnerability .
Despite predicting an increase in the volume and sophistication of identity-based attacks , this year ’ s report shows once again that long-standing , foundational security principles like least privilege will continue to offer the best line of defence – even against modern threats – and that the organisations who successfully pair preventative security controls with threat detection and response will continue to be much better poised to withstand tomorrow ’ s threats . p
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