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The managing partner finds out because someone walked into the office and their computer won't turn on — or because every file in a shared folder now has a strange extension. What happens in the hours that follow is shaped almost entirely by the decisions made in the first two hours, most of which are made under extreme pressure without the information needed to make them well.
Somewhere along the way, MFA calcified into a false sense of completeness — as though it were a finish line rather than a baseline. Attackers adapted. Token theft, MFA fatigue, and legacy authentication protocols bypass it completely. Here's exactly how each technique works and what actually stops them.
Read Article →A partner noticed a client had called about an email she never sent. Her account had been compromised seventeen days earlier.
Read Article →Lawyers, CPAs, and insurance brokers handle the most sensitive data and carry the thinnest security posture.
Read Article →Modern attacks increasingly rely on tools already present on your system — legitimate Windows utilities weaponized to do malicious things. Huntress monitors behavior instead.
Read Article →EDR is a tool. It generates alerts. MDR is the human layer that sits on top — monitoring around the clock, triaging what's real, and responding when something needs to be contained.
Read Article →There is a meaningful difference between a dashboard that's technically running 24 hours a day and a security engineer who is actively responding to threats around the clock.
Read Article →Your IT company is responsible for keeping systems running. A SOC monitors for signs of attacker behavior. Most businesses assume their IT company is doing both. They are not — and that gap is exactly where attackers live.
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