When the Management Plane Becomes the Attack Plane by Heath Gieson A few years ago, I was sitting in a conference room with an executive team after what everyone thought was a routine network outage. We started examining the firewall that had been in place for years. It was trusted. It was stable. When the business needed something opened up, someone logged in, made the change, and moved on. No one complained. No one questioned the process. During the post‑incident review, one of the...














