that it had suffered a significant data breach. Though the data breach details are not public, reports indicate that the breach was caused due to a human error. In this blog post, we will dive deeper into what happened and how organizations can take steps to avoid such a breach.Optus exposed its customer identity database to an Application Programming Interface for use in the internal systems.
Some form of automation is required to help organizations deal with this issue. Organizations need real-time visibility of the data flows across multiple applications and databases. They need to know which applications or repositories have access to which data and how it is being exposed to the world. Using assessments or manual threat modeling techniques to acquire this information is slow and often incomplete.