Netwrix

With the World Cup underway, there is no better time to talk about the goalkeeper principle in cybersecurity.

Every other control in your security stack has something behind it. Credentials don't.
When an attacker has valid credentials, they don't need to beat anything else. No privilege escalation, no lateral movement required. The game is already over.

Sascha Martens, General Manager at MATESO and CTO at Netwrix, uses the goalkeeper principle to explain why credential security is held to a different standard than every other layer in your stack, and what governed credential management actually looks like in practice.

Read the full blog 👉🏼 https://netwrix.com/en/resources/blog/the-goalkeeper-principle/