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Misconfigured Security Controls Open the Door for Storm-2949

The Microsoft Defender Security Research Team and Microsoft Threat Intelligence documented a campaign in which Storm-2949 abused Microsoft Entra ID accounts to exfiltrate data from Microsoft 365 and Azure environments. The attack shows how cloud intrusions increasingly unfold through identity systems, administrative features, and legitimate platform capabilities rather than obvious malware or traditional endpoint compromise.

Kevin Mandia on AI-Powered Attacks: The Race Just Got Faster | Black Hat | Reach Security

At Black Hat last year, we sat down with Kevin Mandia to talk about what's coming. His take: offense is going to accelerate with AI. Not slow down. Not plateau. Accelerate. When you've run more red teams than practically anyone on the planet, the pattern is clear. Getting into a victim network is already a race. AI compresses those time frames further. The attack surface isn't changing. Misconfigurations, things that slipped, controls that were on and got turned off. The entry point stays the same. AI just makes the race to exploit it faster.

Optimize Zscaler Secure Internet Access (ZIA) Controls | Demo Video

Zscaler Secure Internet Access (ZIA) provides powerful secure access, inline inspection, decryption, and data loss prevention capabilities. But as your security and IT environments scale, and security controls change, Zscaler ZIA protections can drift away from established baselines, increasing your risk and leaving you open to attack. Reach analyzes your Zscaler ZIA controls to find and fix misconfigured controls, activate unused capabilities, and stop configuration drift. This hardens your defenses and protects you against fast-moving adversaries.

Close Defensive Gaps Before AI Attacks Exploit Them

The speed of AI-powered attacks is mind-numbing. CrowdStrike found that average eCrime breakout time fell to 29 minutes, with the fastest recorded breakout at 27 seconds. Armadin showed an LLM-driven NTLM relay attack completing in under three minutes, then roughly 1.5 minutes with BloodHound MCP context.

How Reach Fixes Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Configuration Drift

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is powerful out of the box. The problem? Configurations drift. IT teams make changes the security team doesn't know about. Anti-phishing policies weaken. Safe Links gaps open up. And AI-powered attackers are finding those openings faster than any team can manually catch them. Reach analyzes your Microsoft Defender for Office 365 controls, activates underutilized capabilities, remediates misconfigurations, and keeps your deployment aligned to your security baseline continuously.

The Configuration Drift Behind the Teams Helpdesk Breach

On April 22, 2026, Google's Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant disclosed a campaign by a threat actor they're tracking as UNC6692. The group breached enterprise networks by impersonating IT helpdesk staff over Microsoft Teams, ultimately exfiltrating Active Directory databases and achieving full domain compromise. What's notable about UNC6692 is what they didn't do. They didn't use a zero-day. They didn't exploit a software vulnerability.

Measuring Real Risk Reduction Across Your Security Stack

Garrett Hamilton recently presented at the North Texas ISSA Lunch & Learn in Plano, TX to talk about what risk reduction actually looks like in practice. Reach shows customers exactly which controls they've deployed, the user impact of those changes, and how much risk has been reduced across IAM, EDR, email, firewall, and SASE. Not feature checklists. Targeted, measurable outcomes tied to the business.

New Research Finds Configuration Drift is Driving Cybersecurity Incidents Across 97% of Organizations

The study, commissioned by Reach Security, reveals widespread misconfigurations, slow remediation cycles, and manual approaches to drift management, highlighting the urgent need for preemptive approaches that continuously validate security controls.

Scaling Reach Security the Right Way

New year, new faces, big goals. To close out 2025 and open 2026, we welcomed 43 new team members across engineering, sales, customer success & solutions, marketing, and operations. Reach was founded to close the gap between knowing where you're exposed and actually fixing it. That mission doesn’t scale without the right people. Growth is exciting, but aligned growth—with the right people, at the right time, for the right mission—is what really matters.