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Breaches don't look like the movies
It's almost never the zero-day. It's the bucket.
The breaches that end up in the headlines almost never start with an exotic exploit. They start with a storage bucket left public, a role granted admin because the deploy was failing, a credential in a repo nobody remembered.
Industry post-mortems say the same thing year after year: the overwhelming majority of cloud incidents trace to misconfiguration — to the gap between how the environment is supposed to be set up and how it actually is, today, after eighteen months of deadline-driven changes.
This is uncomfortable, because misconfiguration is unglamorous. Boards want to hear about threat actors. Budgets flow toward detection. Meanwhile the actual attack surface is a thousand small, known, fixable settings.
The good news hiding in that: your biggest risk is also your most controllable one.
Tomorrow: why the tools built to find these problems mostly produce wallpaper.