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Data Breaches are a Dime a Dozen: It’s Time for a New

Cybersecurity Paradigm

By Ev Kontsevoy, Co-Founder and CEO, Teleport

Data breaches have accelerated quickly in 2024. Google ‘data breach’ and you’re in for a whirlwind of
high-profile names scattered across headlines of thousands, and sometimes millions, of customer and
personal records exposed.

The headlines are reporting not only the compromise of sensitive data, but also the disruption of business
operations as companies take systems offline to assess and contain the blast radius of compromised
systems.

Not even Big Tech is safe from scrutiny. And it’s because DevOps and cloud infrastructure have grown
very complex. The fragmentation of identity and access silos has created an environment that enables
bad actors to breach and pivot across infrastructure by identifying a misconfiguration, or forcing human
error through techniques such as social engineering. Case in point: roughly 85% of data breaches in
2023 involved servers.

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