Turn Stolen Credentials to Dead Ends | CyberQP Infographic

Turn Stolen Credentials to Dead Ends | CyberQP Infographic

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Turn Stolen Credentials Into Dead Ends

Proactive defense starts with no standing access. CyberQP gives IT Teams enterprise-grade protection that’s simple, automated, and designed for real-world threats.

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Stop Standing Access. Stop Breaches.

Standing admin privileges are one of the biggest open doors for attackers and many IT Teams don’t realize how exposed they are. Hackers target these accounts because it’s the fastest way to breach you and your clients.

Our infographic reveals how CyberQP shuts that door with automated controls and Zero Trust principles. Are your admin accounts vulnerable?

Inside the CyberQP Defense Approach

Just-in-Time Accounts & Passwordless Logins

Provision Just-In-Time accounts only when needed, and eliminate static passwords with passwordless logins. This reduces attack surfaces by ensuring no standing admin access exists for attackers to exploit.

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Daily Automated Password Rotations

CyberQP automatically rotates privileged passwords every day, preventing stale or reused credentials from becoming an easy entry point for attackers. Even if a password is compromised, it’s useless within hours.

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Complete Account Oversight

Gain full visibility into every privileged account, session, and request across your clients. With real-time monitoring and audit trails, you can detect suspicious activity quickly and shut down threats before they escalate.

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Stale Accounts Cause Password Leaks Worth $16B | CyberQP Blog

Stale Accounts Cause Password Leaks Worth $16B | CyberQP Blog

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The $16 Billion Wake-Up Call: Why Stale Accounts Are a Silent Threat to Your Helpdesk

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On June 19, 2025, Forbes reported a staggering breach. Over 16 billion compromised credentials from major platforms, including Apple, Google, and Facebook, are now exposed on the dark web. This acts as a huge wake up call for security teams. End users can’t be relied on to manage their own access or maintain proper password hygiene. That’s why CyberQP empowers IT teams to enforce Zero Trust without disrupting the end-user experience. Easy to deploy and frictionless to adopt, our platform secures every account, enabling you to prevent a national public data breach before it starts.

This incident is being recognized as a national public data breach, underscoring how high the stakes really are. While the headlines focus on end-user password leaks, there’s a less obvious but equally dangerous issue for IT teams: stale accounts. These are dormant user or technician accounts with lingering permissions. They provide an open invitation for attackers and result in a nightmare for compliance.

Stale Accounts and How They Lead to Compromised Credentials

Stale accounts are user or admin accounts that are no longer in active use but haven’t been decommissioned. These stale accounts pose a serious threat across the entire organization, not just within the help desk. These accounts often result from staff turnover, role changes, or one-off access requests. Too frequently, IT is the last to know (or is left out entirely) when access should be revoked, leaving over-privileged and unmanaged accounts to linger well beyond their intended use.

These accounts often:

  • Retain elevated privileges.
  • Use reused or weak passwords.
  • Bypass standard MFA protocols.
  • Remain invisible in manual audits.

The longer they exist, the greater the attack surface—and the more likely they are to be exploited in breaches involving compromised credentials or massive password leaks.

PAM: The Defense You Need Against Identity Takeover Attacks

Hackers don’t hack in—they log in. As account takeover attacks have surged in frequency and impact, Privileged Access Management (PAM) has re-emerged as a frontline tool in the fight against identity-based threats. While many organizations already have some form of PAM, traditional solutions often fall short, leaving gaps in visibility, over-privileged accounts, or high-friction experiences. 

That’s where CyberQP stands apart. Designed to secure access across both technicians and end users, our solution enforces just-in-time privileges, automates expiration, and embeds identity verification into every session, ensuring strong protection without disrupting workflows.

By eliminating standing privileges, CyberQP ensures every elevation of access is deliberate, time-bound, and fully auditable, bringing clarity and control to IT operations. This proactive approach eliminates dormant accounts and the security gaps they create. By embedding Zero Trust into every access flow, CyberQP helps organizations close the doors that password leaks and compromised credentials would otherwise pry open.

Compliance Doesn’t Tolerate Stale Accounts

Modern compliance frameworks, like ISO, NIST, CMMC, SOC 2, HIPAA, and cyber insurance policies, demand clear proof of least privilege and thorough access auditing. They require clear, ongoing evidence that least privilege is enforced and access is continuously audited. Stale accounts not only undermine these controls, they also inflate your audit scope, drive up insurance premiums, and lead to costly remediation after the fact. CyberQP helps eliminate these risks by automating access expiration and maintaining real-time audit readiness.

CyberQP helps organizations meet these standards with automated access expiration tied to user sessions, detailed audit trails for every privileged action, and built-in identity verification before access is granted. 

Your compliance officer will thank you, and so will your insurer when your organization stays off the next national public data breach report.

It’s Not Just Risk, It’s Reputation

Security isn’t just about locking down access. It’s about maintaining trust. When a stale account is exploited, the damage ripples across your organization, eroding customer trust if sensitive data is exposed, undermining internal confidence in IT’s ability to protect, and straining vendor relationships when compliance violations occur. 

Whether the breach stems from compromised credentials or a widespread password leak, PAM serves as your proactive shield, demonstrating to stakeholders that you’re not only aware of the risks, you’re actively staying ahead of them.

Empowering Access, Redefining Privilege

CyberQP’s mission is to empower IT teams with secure, auditable, and user-friendly access workflows. We help you eliminate identity and privileged access security risks without adding friction. 

Our credibility and credentials speak for themselves:

  • SOC 2 Type 2 certified
  • Identity verification, baked into every session
  • Scalable for small IT teams and growing enterprises alike

We’re not just solving for today. We’re future-proofing your access control strategy.

Don’t Wait for the Breach

The next national public data breach is already happening somewhere. The only question is: Will your helpdesk be part of the headline? Make the smart move. Reduce risk, improve compliance, and modernize your access workflows today.

Learn how CyberQP helps eliminate stale account risk with Zero Trust Helpdesk Security. Request a demo today.

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Transparency, Compliance, & Control

Transparency, Compliance, & Control

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Transparency, Compliance, & Control

Transparency, Compliance, & Control

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Transparency, Compliance, & Control

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Overview

Security and compliance don’t have to be complicated. Join CyberQP and Hudu for a live, interview-style webinar, where product and security leaders break down how combining documentation with privileged access management can transform the way IT teams operate.

We’ll discuss how transparency builds trust, why audit readiness starts at the helpdesk, and how your team can work more efficiently without sacrificing control. If you’re managing sensitive access and documentation separately, it’s time to rethink your stack. 

 

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Original Air Date: July, 2025

Location: Virtual/On-Demand

Why This Matters to You:

We’ll show you how to:

Eliminate standing privileges without slowing down your techs

Automate identity verification and access logging

Track sensitive actions with real-time documentation

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Paul Redding CyberQP

Paul Redding

SVP of Channel Marketing & Community, CyberQP

Liam Degnan

Kevin Barton

Director of Product, CyberQP

Joe Macedo

Ken Moten

Information Security & Compliance Manager, Hudu

Joe Macedo

Jordan Hart

Product Manager, Hudu

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Catch the full conversation on your schedule and see how leading IT Professionals are simplifying compliance and security.

 

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When is Traditional Cybersecurity Not Enough? Protect Layer 8.

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When is Traditional Cybersecurity Not Enough? Protect Layer 8.

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Why This Matters to You:

Traditional cybersecurity tools are built to protect networks, endpoints, and data. But what about the humans behind the screens? In this session, we’ll explore how identity focused threats like social engineering and helpdesk impersonation attacks bypass traditional defenses and why protecting Layer 8 (the user) is critical to a Zero Trust strategy.

A true Zero Trust model doesn’t stop at devices or networks. Learn how protecting identities at the helpdesk and enforcing least privilege access are essential components.

Phishing, impersonation, and helpdesk fraud are on the rise. IT pros need new strategies that focus on verifying identity, not just locking down infrastructure.

Firewalls and antivirus can’t stop a technician from being tricked into resetting a password for a bad actor. This webinar reveals how attackers exploit Layer 8 (humans),and how to defend against it.

Meet our Speakers

Paul Redding CyberQP

Paul Redding

SVP of Channel Marketing & Community, CyberQP

Liam Degnan

Nick Hilderman

Director of Information Security and Compliance, CyberQP

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This isn’t just about avoiding fines. It’s about showing your clients that you’re the partner they need to navigate the new rules, avoid breaches, and safeguard patient data. The changes are coming fast—make sure you’re ready.

 

Enforce Least Privileges Confidently with Audit Mode | CyberQP Product Release

Enforce Least Privileges Confidently with Audit Mode | CyberQP Product Release

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Introducing Audit Mode for Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM): A Smarter Path to Least Privilege

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We’re excited to introduce Audit Mode for Endpoint Privilege Management, a powerful addition that allows IT Professionals to confidently move their customers away from standing local admin rights, without disrupting daily operations or user productivity.

Key Features:

  • Privileged Activity Audit Log: View all privileged programs and processes run by users across all endpoints.
  • Process Details: Get detailed information for each process, with built-in VirusTotal integration to check for malicious programs
  • Rule Creation: Easily create auto-elevation rules directly from audit events and easily apply them at scale across your customer and user base.
  • Transition to Least Privilege: Confidently remove local admin rights after setting up rules for approved tools.
  • Ad-hoc Elevation Requests: End-users can request one-time admin access or one-time elevation for specific processes when needed.

Audit Mode allows you to monitor and log every privileged application and process executed by end-users across your managed environments. This added visibility enables IT teams to identify legitimate business-critical tools and workflows in real time. From there, creating precise auto approval rules directly from audit events is easy, and you can ensure that the right programs are always allowed, no help desk ticket required.

Once all critical applications are accounted for and approved through elevation policies, users can safely remove local admin rights and transition end-users into a secure, policy based elevation model. Combined with integrated VirusTotal scanning, detailed process insights, and support for ad-hoc elevation requests, Audit Mode provides a smooth, strategic path toward implementing least privilege at scale without the operational risk, or end-user friction that typically slows down adoption.

Why IT Teams Care:

  • Stronger Endpoint Security: Eliminating standing admin rights significantly reduces the attack surface across every customer environment. By only granting privilege to approved applications when needed, it limits the potential for lateral movement and privilege escalation.
  • Easy Adoption: Audit Mode accelerates the rollout of least-privilege policies. Instead of guessing which tools to whitelist, you can use real-time audit data to build elevation rules.
  • Reduces Tickets and Manual Approvals: With audit-driven rule creation and self-service elevation workflows, helpdesks will spend less time fielding tickets.
  • A Foundation for Automation: By logging privileged behavior across all endpoints, Audit Mode helps identify common patterns and proactively define safe, repeatable elevation rules.

Conclusion: A Critical Step to Achieve Zero Standing Privileges

Audit Mode isn’t just a new feature, it’s a strategic enabler for IT Professionals looking to implement true least privilege access, without friction.

Traditionally, the removal of local admin rights has come with a cost: increased support tickets, unhappy end users, and disruption to workflows. Audit Mode flips that narrative by providing visibility into how end-users interact with privileged tools before any restrictions are enforced. This gives you the context needed to build safe, effective elevation strategies that work from day one.

The Latest News & Events

Transparency, Compliance, & Control

Transparency, Compliance, & Control

Security and compliance don’t have to be complicated. Join CyberQP and Hudu for a live, interview-style webinar, where product and security leaders break down how combining documentation with privileged access management can transform the way IT teams operate.

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