How weak passwords and other failings led to catastrophic breach of Ascension

Amid Ascension’s decision not to discuss the attack, there aren’t enough details to provide a complete autopsy of Ascension’s missteps and the measures the company could have taken to prevent the network breach. In general, though, the one-two pivot indicates a failure to follow various well-established security approaches. One of them is known as security in depth. The security principle is similar to the reason submarines have layered measures to protect against hull…