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Lateral movement risk rises as enterprises emphasize convenience over containment

Published

9 July 2026

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operational-macro

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CybersecuritySecurity Infrastructure

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Fusion42 · 9 July 2026 · Fusion42 review

Enterprise networks exhibit widespread lateral movement vulnerabilities due to reliance on legacy protocols (NTLM, RDP, SMB, WinRM) and poor segmentation, with over 80% of servers reachable internally—enabling attackers to propagate freely post-breach without sophisticated exploits.

This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Cybersecurity and Security Infrastructure.

◆ The Wire takeaway

Founders building network security, zero-trust, or lateral movement detection solutions have urgent product-market tailwinds: 80%+ of enterprise servers are internally exposed and 43% still run NTLM—creating massive remediation and containment demand.

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1 source · 9 Jul 2026

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CybersecuritySecurity Infrastructurelateral-movementnetwork-segmentationzero-trustlegacy-protocolsransomwareenterprise-security