Once inside, attackers pivot. They move east-west across the network searching for privileged systems, backup servers, and high-value data. They use living-off-the-land tools, stolen tokens, RDP, and PowerShell to blend in and move inside your environment. Containing lateral movement is critical. It’s time to remove implicit trust. Enforce explicit permission between systems, control how applications interact, which devices connect, and restrict administrative pathways by policy, so no trusted tools are launched without explicit permissions.
When you precisely define what’s allowed, you break the paths attackers rely on.