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title: "Lateral movement risk rises as enterprises emphasize convenience over containment"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/lateral-movement-risk-rises-as-enterprises-emphasize-convenience-over-containment-feaxw8m31
source_url: https://www.csoonline.com/article/4194708/lateral-movement-risk-rises-as-enterprises-emphasize-convenience-over-containment.html
type: article
source: "CSO Online"
published: 2026-07-09T07:06:16.861Z
updated: 2026-07-09T07:06:46.717Z
tags: ["ransomware"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Lateral movement risk rises as enterprises emphasize convenience over containment

**[CSO Online](https://daily.dev/sources/csoonline)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A report from Zero Networks analyzing 54 trillion activities across 312 enterprise environments reveals that over 80% of enterprise servers are reachable from anywhere inside the network. Key findings: 87% accept inbound RDP or SSH from broad internal sources, 78% are reachable via SMB or WinRM, 43% of internal authentication still uses legacy NTLM, and 12% of organizations maintain direct user-to-server admin pathways. Security experts confirm these findings match real-world red team and penetration test observations, noting attackers rarely need zero-days once inside — they simply use built-in admin tools. Recommended countermeasures include micro-segmentation, retiring legacy protocols like NTLM, identity-driven least privilege, and stricter separation of privileged access.

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