asset management
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Subdomain takeover (dangling DNS) — your domain is served by an attacker, and your servers were never touched
Delete a cloud resource without deleting the DNS record and you have a dangling entry: anyone can claim that subdomain by provisioning a resource with the same FQDN. Your servers stay untouched while a legitimate subdomain serves an attacker's content. The damage is not cosmetic — apps commonly expose session cookies to wildcard subdomains, so the hijacked one can read them. And the documentation explicitly rejects the belief that a certificate protects you. The fix is making deletion order a mechanism, not a memory.
Equifax breach (2017) — how an unpatched Apache Struts flaw leaked 147M people
The cause was a known, already-patched CVE (CVSS 10.0) left unapplied on a public system. An expired monitoring certificate hid the exfiltration for 76 days. In your environment: asset inventory, a patch SLA, machine monitoring, and healthy detection.