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These 3 things change how teams think about breaches: 1. Identity is the person. 2. Credentials are the proof artifacts: passwords, tokens, certificates. 3. Authentication is the act of using credentials to confirm identity. Identities don't get stolen. Credentials do, and a stolen credential authenticates exactly as well as the real one. That's why the check after login has to look for the person.

Researchers from Modat and the Dutch National Cyber Security Centre found 8,547 internet-facing systems linked to European wind farms and solar parks, across 35 countries. At about 180 sites, they believe full control was possible and some interfaces showed live data with Start, Stop, and Reset buttons. Their summary is worth remembering: "What we can map in hours, an attacker can map in hours too." Renewables run on remote operation: sites are spread out, crews are small, and integrators need access from somewhere else. Taking control panels off the public internet is the first fix, and it shouldn't wait. The access that remains, the remote sessions operators and vendors depend on, needs a control that verifies a real person at an approved workstation is behind each action. Energy and utilities are among the environments Keystrike was built for.

Keystrike now integrates with Acronis Cyber Platform. Managed service providers (MSPs) hold access to every customer they serve, which makes each technician, vendor, and contractor login worth stealing. Once an attacker takes over one of those sessions, their commands look like normal work. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) checks identity at login. Keystrike picks up from there and keeps checking for the rest of the session. Inside privileged sessions, supported commands run only when they come from an authorized person’s physical input on an authorized device. Commands that can’t be tied to that input can be blocked before they reach the system, and every governed session leaves a tamper-evident record for investigations, audits, and compliance reporting. For Acronis partners, it all happens in the console you already use: - Turn Keystrike on for a customer, and their environment is created automatically. - Push the agent with ready-made Acronis Cyber Scripting scripts. - See every remote connection into customer systems, including from unmanaged or unknown devices. - Offer it as part of the services you already sell. Thanks to the Acronis team for building this with us. Read the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/dZgFx_RW

21,000. That's how many unknown AI agents Reco found at a single Fortune 100 customer, according to TechCrunch's coverage of the company's $55M raise. You can't govern an agent you don't know exists, that’s the starting point. Our free Shadow AI Assessment is built for that first step: finding the AI tools and agents in use on your managed endpoints, sanctioned or not. Get a free Shadow AI assessment → https://keystrike.com/

Voice phishing is now the second most common way attackers get in, according to Mandiant's M-Trends 2026. It accounted for 11% of initial infection vectors in 2025. Email phishing fell to 6%. This year's ShinyHunters campaigns show why. The group used voice phishing against companies including Instructure, the company behind Canvas, in a breach affecting more than 30 million students and staff. Anyone who has worked a help desk knows the script. The caller sounds right, knows enough internal detail, and needs a reset or a remote session right now. Mandiant describes groups like UNC3944 targeting help desks specifically to get around MFA. Training helps, so does a callback policy. Once the caller has a session, though, their actions look like an employee's. Keystrike helps reduce the impact of help desk impersonation and desktop takeover scams in governed sessions.

One of the most common questions Keystrike gets is whether it will replace what's already in place. Keystrike deploys seamlessly alongside the identity, access, and monitoring tools security teams already run, with no infrastructure changes required. Increasing security shouldn't mean ripping out what's already working.