From Compromise To Control: The ATO Prevention Plan For 2026
Security Boulevard, December 11,2025
According to IBM's 2025 Cost of a Data Breach report, breaches initiated with stolen credentials take an average of 246 days to identify and contain. That is more than eight months of undetected access.
Eight months of reconnaissance. Eight months of quietly learning how your organization communicates, who approves payments, how vendors are onboarded, and where trust is assumed rather than verified.
Account takeovers do not announce themselves. They blend in. That is why they continue to be one of the most damaging and persistent attack paths for orgs today.