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Okta and Microsoft Breaches - expert commentary
March 2022 by Ofer Maor, current Co-Founder and CTO of Mitiga
With the recent Okta and Microsoft breaches, the commentary from Ofer Maor, current Co-Founder and CTO of Mitiga, a cloud incident readiness and response company.
“While many in the industry are currently worried about future abuse of the Okta breach, it is most likely the opposite. Having access to Okta is an extremely valuable resource, which a hacker group would not like to lose. Publishing it will cause the vendor to immediately identify the breach and block it, so we can assume that they only published it after it has already been blocked. This means that while the industry is investing energy in preventing future abuse of this, they should actually be investing energy in identifying whether this was abused against their environments in the last few weeks, in attempt to discover and block active attacks”
