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CISOs agree: Your MFA is already beaten. Here's what isn't

Published 3 months ago • 1 min read

Emma Zaman

Strategic Advisor: Sovereign Identity & Compliance

The attackers who hit your peers last quarter didn't break in. They logged in using valid, phished, or socially engineered credentials. Legacy MFA didn't stop them, and yours won't either.

CISO Edition | June 2026

84% of organizations got hit by an identity breach in 2025. In 1 in 3, the attacker just logged in. Phishing surged 76% because the toolkit does the work now—your attacker needs zero skill.

If your authentication relies on a shared secret or a network-delivered code, it is already being intercepted. You just haven't seen the alert yet.

Most vendors sell you a control and disappear. We send a red team after ours.

Here's the part nobody else does: we deploy the solution, then attack it—so you find out it holds before the adversary does it for you, on the news, with your name attached.

Three Pillars. Zero Assumptions.

1: HYPR — Kill the password entirely

Full passwordless MFA across desktop, SSO, VPN, and cloud. AI-powered identity proofing with liveness detection shuts down the helpdesk reset vector that deepfakes are actively exploiting (email identity theft up 65%). No password. Nothing left to phish.

2: NEOWAVE — Phishing-resistant by design

French-manufactured FIDO2 hardware keys. EAL5+/EAL6+ certified. ANSSI Security Visa. The private key never leaves the device, so the hardware refuses to authenticate to an unverified domain. Sovereign Western technology. Zero third-country data residency risk. This isn’t “harder to phish.” It’s impossible.

3: Syndis Red Team — Prove it under live fire

A 2–4 day adversary-minded attack on a real corporate endpoint: LSASS dumps, browser credential extraction, Pass-the-Hash, RDP hijacking, AppLocker/WDAC bypass. Then the only question that matters: did your SOC actually detect it? You get the answer in a board-ready report—not a post-breach forensic invoice.

The numbers your CFO will sign off on

Forrester TEI, composite 10,000-employee enterprise. Measured outcomes—not projections.

90% fewer reset tickets means your security engineers stop resetting passwords and start hunting threats. Compliance—NIS2, GDPR, eIDAS, PSD2, NIST 800-63—follows as a structural output, not a separate project.

So here's the decision.

The adversary has industrialized credential theft. You can eliminate the credential as a target, or you can keep defending the indefensible and explain it to the board after the breach.

One of those two things happens this year. You pick which.

See exactly where you're exposed—before an attacker shows you.

Includes a complimentary RISK Analysis of your Microsoft 365 envrionment against the 2026 mandates.

The best security is the kind your team actually loves to use

Emma Zaman

Strategic Advisor: Sovereign Identity & Compliance

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