Most breaches don’t start with a clever zero-day. They start with privileged access left broader, longer-lived, or less watched than anyone realized. Each brief covers three recent breaches in one industry, the exact gap behind each, and a 60-second self-check for your own environment.
Three recent financial-sector breaches, the exact privileged-access gap behind each, and a 60-second self-check for your own environment.
Get the briefInsuranceThe 2025 campaign that moved straight through the U.S. insurance sector, the access gaps it exploited, and how to check your exposure.
Get the briefHealthcareThe largest healthcare breach ever recorded began with one password and a missing MFA prompt. Here's the pattern, and how to check your own.
Get the briefEnergyOne unretired VPN account shut down the largest fuel pipeline in the U.S. The pattern hasn't changed — here's how to check your IT and OT access.
Get the briefEducationThe largest breach of student data in U.S. history took one stolen password and a support portal with no MFA. Here's the pattern behind it.
Get the briefRetailThe retailers breached in 2025 have something in common with Target a decade earlier: the attackers didn't break in, they logged in.
Get the briefHospitalityA ten-minute phone call to a help desk took a casino empire offline for ten days. Here's the access gap behind it, and how to check yours.
Get the briefEvery brief is written by CyberArk-certified engineers and drawn entirely from public reporting. No vendor pitch — just what actually went wrong, and how to check whether the same gaps are open in your environment.