Today’s attacks don’t “break down the door” — they walk in with credentials. Phishing, infostealers, and abused tokens make the attacker look like a legitimate user. Identity is the new perimeter; time is the new risk. The difference between an incident and a crisis depends on how much surface you expose and how many minutes it takes to contain it. Resilience can’t be bought once — it’s a daily discipline.
What has really changed
Attackers follow growth: cloud, integrations, hybrid work.
They target misconfigurations, weak identities, and unmapped dependencies. The game isn’t a “Hollywood” theft — it’s extortion: locking systems, exfiltrating data, and causing operational standstills. For an SME, security must live in processes, not at the margins.
- Identity at the center. Phishing-resistant MFA, an end to legacy systems, and precise governance of apps and permissions. If the attacker can’t “become” a user, the chain breaks immediately.
- Access to the resource, not to the network. With Global Secure Access you enable only the necessary app, when needed, with continuous control. Result: less surface area, less lateral movement, less damage.
- Unified visibility. Identity, endpoints, network and cloud must tell the same story: clear anomalies, playbooks at the ready, no blanket shutdowns.
- Cloud hygiene as a routine. Know what’s exposed, how it’s configured, and how quickly you fix it. Partners and vendors must be treated with the same care as your own apps: trust, yes — but never blind trust.
Why Global Secure Access accelerates
It removes the compromise between security and user experience.
For employees, it’s transparent: apps appear when needed and access adapts to context. For the company, it means consistent rules across Microsoft 365, external apps, and internal resources. Fewer overlapping clients, fewer tickets, and faster onboarding. Better performance: M365 connects directly to the cloud in a controlled way, while internal resources travel over a secure link — no bottlenecks.
Security that works with the business
When identity, resource access, visibility, and cloud hygiene are solid, an incident stays an incident — it doesn’t become a crisis. Modernity isn’t the absence of failures; it’s the ability to keep going.
This is where our Managed Workplace comes in:
Global Secure Access + centralized device management, clear policies, and work-focused telemetry. Not just tools, but an operational model with runbooks, understandable reports, and continuous improvement.
The result: less exposed surface, greater continuity, faster users.
That’s how an SME stops chasing alerts and starts governing the decisions that matter.
