The MemcycoFM Show: Ep 15 - How CISOs Apply Zero Trust Thinking to Credential Harvesting Prevention

A customer opens their bank’s login page. At least, that’s what they think. The design is flawless, the fields are familiar. But it’s a cloned site built to harvest credentials. Within seconds, their details are replayed against the genuine portal. To the bank’s defenses, it looks like business as usual — same username, same password, same MFA prompt.

This is the reality of credential harvesting, one of the most common precursors to account takeover. CISOs are now borrowing Zero Trust principles — continuous verification and the removal of implicit trust — to shift these outcomes. While Zero Trust is proven inside enterprise networks, its adaptation to consumer login flows is emerging as the next frontier in scam defense.

Read the original blog first published to memcyco.com