For a generation of people that panic if they leave home without their phone or in the event of a social media outage, we are still very unequipped to handle the internet’s possibilities securely.
A study conducted by the Taylor & Francis Group found that “Many netizens still lack sufficient awareness of various internet threats and often fail to possess the minimum required knowledge to protect their computing devices.” As the technology-driven era continues to evolve, the attack surface is widening, and cyber criminals are finding more ways to infiltrate connected devices. The very people who share a #firstdayatwork selfie could unknowingly be leaking business-critical data.
The Twitter meltdown in 2020 was a prime example of this issue. A few gullible employees responded to an email requesting to reset their password. They went to a dummy site controlled by hackers and entered their credentials – usernames, passwords, and multifactor authentication codes – which was all it took to drop Twitter’s stock prices by 4 percent. The question to ask here is, “What can the modern CISO of a digital-first business with digitally-native employees do to avoid a…
