The past month has been a very dynamic time in the world of security for hackers and threat researchers, but it has been an extended nightmare for CSOs responsible for securing their enterprise networks. 

\n For starters, on-premise Microsoft Exchange servers were attacked in droves after a set of zero-day vulnerabilities were discovered, resulting in  widespread infiltration of hundreds of thousands of organizations . These vulnerabilities allow malicious actors to remotely control machines, read emails, and gain access to internal corporate assets. To illustrate how widespread this attack was, in the two days following the disclosure, Akamai observed  over 290,000 unique attempts to scan and/or exploit these vulnerabilities on our global platform .…