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What is the difference between system telemetry and customer data?

Data Governance & Sovereignty

Short answer: System telemetry describes how software is behaving — which process started which, ...

Updated 1 month ago by Dennis Underwood

What data does Cyber Crucible collect — and what does it never collect?

Data Governance & Sovereignty

Short answer: Cyber Crucible operates under a Zero-Content Harvesting directive. It processes sys...

Updated 1 month ago by Dennis Underwood

Why does protecting identity data require kernel-level access?

Digital Identity Explained

Short answer: Because the theft happens in the space between a program requesting credential data...

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What is key-based authentication, and why do stolen keys grant lasting access?

Digital Identity Explained

Short answer: Key-based authentication proves identity with a cryptographic private key instead o...

Updated 1 month ago by Dennis Underwood

Where does Windows store passwords and credentials?

Digital Identity Explained

Short answer: In several predictable places — the Windows Credential Manager, browser password st...

Updated 1 month ago by Dennis Underwood

What are cryptocurrency wallet keys, and why is theft irreversible?

Digital Identity Explained

Short answer: A wallet key is the private cryptographic key that authorizes spending from a crypt...

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What is an API key, and what happens if one is stolen?

Digital Identity Explained

Short answer: An API key is a secret string that identifies and authorizes a program — rather tha...

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What are browser cookies, and how do attackers abuse them?

Digital Identity Explained

Short answer: Cookies are small pieces of data a website stores in your browser, and some of them...

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What is a refresh token, and why is losing one especially damaging?

Digital Identity Explained

Short answer: A refresh token is a long-lived credential used to silently obtain new access token...

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What is a session token, and why is stealing one worse than stealing a password?

Digital Identity Explained

Short answer: A session token is the credential your browser or app holds after you log in, provi...

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What happens when a program tries to access identity data it shouldn't?

Digital Identity Explained

Short answer: It depends on whether the program is trusted and whether it has been compromised. A...

Updated 1 month ago by Dennis Underwood

How is identity data protected?

Digital Identity Explained

Short answer: Cyber Crucible identifies the locations where identity data is stored and protects ...

Updated 1 month ago by Dennis Underwood

Why does intent-based prevention generate less alert noise than signature-based detection?

Proof & Evaluation

Short answer: Because it asks a narrower question. Signature and heuristic tools alert whenever s...

Updated 1 month ago by Dennis Underwood

What happened to the security industry's "dumb collector" model?

Proof & Evaluation

Short answer: For years vendors advised that local endpoint processing was obsolete and pushed li...

Updated 1 month ago by Dennis Underwood

What questions should we ask any endpoint security vendor?

Proof & Evaluation

Short answer: Ask where decisions are made, what happens without connectivity, what the tool depe...

Updated 1 month ago by Dennis Underwood

How should we run a proof of concept for a prevention tool?

Proof & Evaluation

Short answer: Deploy it alongside your existing stack in a real production environment and compar...

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What evidence is there that Cyber Crucible actually stops attacks?

Proof & Evaluation

Short answer: Documented customer deployments, independent testing by a major accounting and advi...

Updated 1 month ago by Dennis Underwood

We were breached recently. Can Cyber Crucible be deployed into an environment that may already be compromised?

Industry Solutions

Short answer: Yes. Cyber Crucible evaluates what programs are doing right now rather than searchi...

Updated 1 month ago by Dennis Underwood

Why do MSPs and resellers partner with Cyber Crucible?

Industry Solutions

Short answer: Because autonomous prevention lets a partner own the margin, the customer relations...

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How does Cyber Crucible support government and high-security environments?

Industry Solutions

Short answer: Through complete data sovereignty — fully on-premises installation in physically se...

Updated 1 month ago by Dennis Underwood