How Organizations Can Use Blunders To Level Up Their Security Programs
Dark Reading, Thursday, March 26th, 2026
Organizations repeatedly expose ports, reuse passwords, and skip patches, creating security gaps that attackers exploit for breaches. An industry veteran outlines ways to fix these common mistakes.
Regardless of sector or size, organizations keep making the same cybersecurity mistakes. Ports exposed to the Internet, passwords that are weak or reused, poor patching practices, and insufficient logging and monitoring are among the most common weaknesses that result in data breaches. In some cases, attackers abuse those security gaps to breach an organization's defenses and cause wider damage.