A 26-year-old Canadian just pleaded guilty to extorting 165 organizations through Snowflake and stealing 100 million AT&T customer records. One person. One year. That's the scale of damage a single actor can inflict when cloud credentials are compromised. 🚨
Here's what keeps me up at night as a CISO who's worked across LatAm and the Caribbean: we're seeing the same playbook repeated. Stolen credentials. Lateral movement through SaaS platforms. Extortion at scale. The Snowflake breaches weren't sophisticated zero-days—they were credential stuffing and poor segmentation.
In my experience bridging US and Latin American security practices, I've noticed US fintech teams often underestimate how far a compromised single account can travel through their cloud infrastructure. LatAm taught me early: assume breach. Segment aggressively. Monitor credential behavior like your revenue depends on it—because it does.
The pattern is clear: cloud access management isn't a nice-to-have anymore. It's your perimeter. 🔐
What's your organization's response when a single SaaS credential goes rogue? Are you detecting lateral movement fast enough?
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