12Port blog
Notes from the privileged-access frontier.
Field reports, technical breakdowns, compliance updates, and product news from the 12Port team. Written for security architects, IT leaders, and the practitioners who run privileged access in production.
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Someone Changed the Password on a Water Utility’s PLC
More than 30 Minnesota water systems lost control of their equipment in a single weekend, and the campaign has since reached at least a…
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Why VPNs Are No Longer Enough for Secure Remote Access
For most of my career, I’ve been helping organizations solve the same challenge, how do you give people remote access to critical systems without putting the business at…
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Top 10 PAM Solutions for Securing Machine Identities and AI Agents
Today, privileged access is just as likely to come from a machine as a human. Service accounts, API keys, SSH keys, certificates, workloads, scripts,…
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Time to Rethink Privileged Access for Machines and AI Agents
For years, Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Privileged Access Management (PAM) have been treated as foundational and a solved security challenge. Organizations deployed vaults, enforced policies, and…
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Your AI Agents Should Be Getting Their Credentials from a PAM Vault
The rise of AI agents has created a problem that most security teams have not yet fully reckoned with. Developers are building agents that…
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Top Vendor Privileged Access Management Solutions
Vendor access is one of the most overlooked and abused entry points in modern environments. Third party vendors, contractors, service providers, and partners often need…
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CISA Recommends Privileged Access Controls for Endpoint Management After Stryker Incident
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a rare and urgent advisory following a March 11, 2026 cyberattack that disrupted the Microsoft environment of Stryker Corporation. Reports indicate the attackers…
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PowerShell Is a Security Risk – Here’s How to Fix It
If you run a Windows environment, you already know how critical PowerShell is. It’s the backbone of modern administration, used for automation, configuration, and day-to-day operations…
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How AI Changes the Role of Privileged Access in Cybersecurity
For most organizations, privileged access management (PAM) has historically been treated as a security hygiene requirement. Secure the administrator passwords, enforce approval workflows, rotate credentials, and record sessions…
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Preventing Breaches – MFA on Remote Access to Linux, Unix, and Infrastructure Systems
Most breaches don’t start with malware or zero-day exploits. They start with a login. An attacker gets hold of a password, maybe through phishing, reuse, or a leaked credential dump. They…
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