“Trust Planes” Are the New Attack Surface
Attackers are no longer “breaking in.” They are logging in—through stolen sessions, abused automations, and over-scoped integrations that your systems were designed to trust. Trust planes are the new attack surface. This post maps the planes, the kill chain, and the controls that matter—then shows why data-plane containment is the only durable way to prevent wholesale compromise.
Vendor Breach Containment: Making Integrations Safe Even When They Get Popped
Vendor breaches are no longer an edge case—they are a primary way attackers bypass your “front door” controls. A single compromised integration can turn into wholesale data access if it relies on long-lived tokens, broad permissions, unmanaged exports, or direct database connectivity. This post turns the “side doors” risk into an actionable containment checklist: minimize what vendors can reach, shorten how long access works, and reduce the value of anything that leaks. You will find practical patterns—an integration gateway, curated exports, kill switches, and tight token scopes—that make stolen vendor access boring and keep blast radius small.
Protecting Data-In-Use in the Cloud: A Pragmatic Philosophy
Once an attacker can read memory, encryption at rest and MFA stop helping. A pragmatic approach to data-in-use: trust the session, not the environment, and assume breach.
Closing the Encryption Gap: Protecting Data While It’s Being Used
Encryption protects data at rest and in transit – but what about when it’s being used?
That’s the missing layer in most security architectures.