Fundamentals of social engineering
Organizations invest a lot into their cybersecurity solutions, from security appliances to applications, and developing cybersecurity teams of professionals to defend and safeguard the assets that are owned by the company. Threat actors have realized many organizations are already implementing the defense-in-depth approach, which provides a multi-layered approach to implementing security solutions to reduce the attack surface of the organization and its assets. With a defense-in-depth approach, organizations do not rely on a single layer of protection, whether it’s using a next-generation firewall (NGFW) to filter network traffic between their internal network and the internet or even using endpoint detection and response (EDR) to mitigate threats on host systems.
Using a multi-layered approach ensures an organization has security solutions to protect their wireless networks, web-based traffic, and email-based traffic, actively monitoring...