One of the most curious elements of this year’s cybersecurity Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) was the inclusion of the new attack pattern, “system intrusions.” Representatives from Verizon identified the category as a broad one that tends to include attacks with many steps, indicating significant lateral movement within the network. Research shows that many recent high-profile attacks involved lateral movement, including the Colonial Pipeline attack, the SolarWinds attack, and the Microsoft Exchange breach.

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