7 Proven Tactics for Preventing Lateral Movement in Enterprise Networks
Proactive defenses are essential because attackers who breach your perimeter will relentlessly seek to move laterally across your network—compromising additional systems and exfiltrating data under the guise of legitimate traffic. In many cases, adversaries can initiate lateral movement in under two hours and remain undetected for weeks, giving them ample time to escalate privileges, pivot through infrastructure, and quietly embed themselves.