How to Stop Security Breaches From Repeating Themselves

Read full article from Defakto here:  https://www.defakto.security/blog/from-reaction-to-resilience-why-breaches-keep-repeating-themselves/?utm_source=nhimg

Breaches keep repeating because enterprises rely on static credentials, over-trusted integrations, and unauthenticated endpoints. Reactive measures like MFA or token rotation patch symptoms but don’t address the root cause: long-lived secrets and unverified trust.

Key insights:

• Recurring Pattern: Breaches at Salesloft, npm, and Jaguar Land Rover show attackers exploit reusable tokens, unauthenticated services, and overprivileged integrations.

• Reactive Security Fails: Rotating secrets or auditing OAuth scopes is like changing locks while leaving the spare key under the mat. Attackers only need one successful exploit.

• Long-Term Security Posture: Eliminate static secrets by adopting:

  • Short-lived, automatically rotated credentials

  • Cryptographically verifiable workload identities

  • Segmented trust domains to limit blast radius

  • Continuous attestation for access decisions

• Non-Human Identity (NHI) Advantage: With Defakto, every service, integration, and agent gets a fresh, bound identity, making stolen credentials useless and providing rich, actionable telemetry for monitoring misuse.

Bottom line: Breaches aren’t just data incidents—they can halt operations and impact entire industries. True resilience requires removing static secrets, enforcing short-lived identities, and segmenting trust, turning the attackers’ playbook obsolete.