We recently ran a tabletop exercise involving a stolen corporate laptop. In the simulation, we successfully triggered the remote wipe command, cryptographically erasing the drive within minutes. Management considered the threat neutralized. However, our red team pointed out a terrifying gap: what if the thief extracted the browser cookies and session tokens just before the wipe executed?
Because the tokens were exported to the attacker’s own machine, those stolen credentials would remain perfectly valid in the cloud. The hardware is dead, but an invisible backdoor remains wide open. How are you all mitigating these “zombie sessions” where the physical device is neutralized, but the digital identity is still actively compromised?
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