India, July 8 -- In distributed enterprise systems, data volume is not a reliable indicator of impact. A single valid credential with sufficient scope can enable lateral movement or privilege escalation across multiple systems. Azure DevOps Personal Access Tokens can grant access to repositories, pipelines, build artifacts, and service connections when active and broadly scoped.

SSH and RSA private keys enable key based authentication to systems that trust those keys. Compromise of these keys can allow persistent access to infrastructure components. Azure Storage account keys provide administrative access to storage resources at the account level. Exposure of these keys can result in unauthorized data access, modification, or deletion. ...