Founded in 1990, Aldagi is Georgia’s first and biggest private insurance firm. With a 32% market share in Georgia’s insurance sector, Aldagi provides a broad range of services to corporate and retail clients. With the onset of the pandemic in 2019, Aldagi wanted to make its services available to customers online. To this end, the company adopted an Agile methodology for software development and re-architected its traditional VM-based applications into cloud-native applications.

About seven months ago at Defcon, Zenity CTO Michael Bargury presented security research that discovered and outlined a way to take over Microsoft Power Automate enabling bad actors to send ransomware to connected machines by using Power Automate as it was designed. By simply taking over an endpoint, our research showed that attackers can run their own payloads and execute malware by assigning machines to a new administrative account using a basic command line.

Like all cybersecurity providers, Blumira has had to respond to the rise of remote and hybrid work models. But given Blumira’s focus on SMBs and mid-market companies, they found many businesses in their target market priced out of mature endpoint monitoring solutions—or without the technical ability and infrastructure to run the endpoint agents a larger organization might use.