Lateral movement risk rises as enterprises emphasize convenience over containment

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.

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