Account takeover attacks pose a significant risk to the cyber security of organizations, because they provide an attacker with access and permissions assigned to a legitimate account owner. Once an attacker has access to a user’s account, they can immediately move to consolidate that access and exploit it to cause harm to the organization.
A prevention focused approach to managing account takeover attacks is ideal, by detecting and blocking unauthorized account access before it poses a risk to the organization.
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