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What breaks when password reset and device enrolment are not tightly controlled?

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By NHI Mgmt Group Editorial Team Updated June 7, 2026 Domain: Threats, Abuse & Incident Response

An attacker can convert a single successful social engineering call into a valid session, then extend that access through new device enrolment or federation artefacts. That breaks the assumption that MFA remains a hard gate, because the gate has already been moved into a less protected operational process.

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Reviewed and updated by the NHIMG editorial team on June 7, 2026.
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