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What the Stryker Attack Should Have Taught Every IT Admin About Protecting Privileged Accounts
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What the Stryker Attack Should Have Taught Every IT Admin About Protecting Privileged Accounts

The Stryker attack did not require an advanced exploit. It required one compromised administrator account with access to a platform capable of wiping every device in the organisation. The 2025 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report documented a surge in MFA bypass methods that defeat the authentication checks most organisations currently rely on for privileged accounts. This guide covers what phishing-resistant MFA actually means, why role-based access controls on device management platforms matter more than most teams have configured them to and what a tabletop exercise for this specific scenario should cover.