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From Shadows to Spotlight—Why Low-Priority Assets Now

Define the Frontline of Cybercrime

By Pankit Desai, CEO of Sequretek

Every fortified network guards its ramparts and main gates with disposition and purpose. Yet, the most
notorious intruders throughout history seldom opted for direct assaults. Instead, their cunning lay in
exploiting neglected wells, forgotten passageways, and overlooked fissures, precipitating disaster from
the unguarded. Today’s cybercriminals demonstrate a similar acuity, eschewing direct attacks on an
organisation’s crown jewels and, instead, probing every unmonitored niche and shadowy recess within
the corporate perimeter. Assets deemed negligible, systems considered deprecated, and endpoints
assumed safe- these now constitute the new portals of compromise. For Chief Information Security
Officers, Chief Information Officers, and the analyst community, the imperative is definite, attention must
shift towards those assets long consigned to obscurity.

The Cybercrime Playbook - Reimagining Targets

The relentless advance of digital transformation, spanning cloud migration, integration of the Internet of
Things, and an expanding universe of SaaS applications—has enabled both innovation and the

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