Social engineering is all about bad guys hacking your employees instead of your network. Here are a dozen social engineering stats you should share with your team & leadership to prepare for attacks you’ll likely face in 2023 and beyond…
Social engineering describes how cybercriminals try to “hack” the people within your organization instead of the technology. This approach is all about using psychological tactics to get people to do something they normally wouldn’t or share information they shouldn’t. Social engineering can be used to get you to give up your login credentials or maybe click on a link to a website that auto-installs ransomware onto your device.
All it takes is one employee’s single moment of unawareness or ignorance for a hacker to use them to bring your organization to its knees. But we aren’t here to discuss the intricacies of social engineering; that’s a topic for another time. You’re here to get into the nitty-gritty data that no one enjoys reading but needs to know: social engineering stats. We’ve pulled together some social engineering statistics from 2021 and 2022 to help prepare you for what’s to come in…
