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posture · acme-co.example watching
spf & deliverability
PASS
Passing — for now. Sitting one DNS lookup under the limit that breaks it.
dns & nameservers
CLEAN
No dangling records. Nothing pointing at infrastructure you no longer own.
tls certificate
9 DAYS
Renews in 9 days. The reminder goes to an inbox belonging to someone who left.
backups
NIGHTLY
Running every night. Verified by a test restore — not just assumed.
oauth grants
EXPOSED
A marketing app from 2023 can still read every inbox. It never meets your MFA.
admin accounts
OWNED
No orphaned or service accounts. Every leaver fully offboarded.
Two amber. Nothing on fire — which is exactly why no one looks. That's the gap we cover.
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01 / THE FAILURE

What's quietly broken

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02 / FIND IT YOURSELF

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03 / THE FIX

What good looks like

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ISSUE 36 quiet-failures · sample
WEEKLY · 6 MIN READ

The Remote Desktop you opened "just for now" is still open

A Remote Desktop port forwarded 'just for now' may still expose your Windows PC to the internet, where scanners brute-force it within minutes. How to check yours.

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