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What if all your minor, unrelated exposures teamed up?
It’s a group session on “Exposure Therapy” this week.
The “Exposure Chain” is on the couch, confessing: “Individually, we’re nothing special. Together? We’re a supergroup of doom!”
This is the real issue: Attackers don’t look for one flaw; they look for a path of many.

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So what brings you in today? The label. We can’t stand the label. The security team is calling us a critical attack path, a chain like we’re some kind of security boy band. Individually where nothing special, a minor CVE here, a weak password there, but put us together, suddenly we’re a super group of doom. They’ve put us on this big dashboard with arrows connecting us and everything showing a direct path. From the Internet right to the crown jewels. Now the whole team is talking about breaking the chain. Breaking the chain? What are we, Fleetwood Mac? Wait a second. If the security team breaks just one of our links, the whole path falls apart. They don’t have to fix hundreds of things, they just have to fix us. So they’re not trying to end our career, they’re just stopping the show before it even starts. We’re not just a bunch of random issues, we’re the most. Efficient ones to fix. You’ve really helped us work…

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