Ransomware groups have shifted from the automated, ‘spray and pray’ tactics of yesterday to highly targeted, human-operated ransomware attacks, carefully crafted to find and encrypt your data and cause maximum critical service disruption.
Chief Human Risk Management Strategist at KnowBe4
Perry Carpenter is Chief Human Risk Management Strategist at KnowBe4, the world-renowned cybersecurity platform that comprehensively addresses human risk management. His latest book, “FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions” [Wiley: Oct 2024], explores AI's role in deception. With over two decades in cybersecurity focusing on how cybercriminals exploit human behavior, Perry hosts the award-winning podcasts 8th Layer Insights and Digital Folklore.
Knowing the common manipulative tactics – exploiting every emotional hot button (anxiety, uncertainty, urgency) – used in phishing is the first step to understanding how to identify and deflect them; and it requires a repetitive process.
A transformational communication program will move beyond one-size-fits-all messaging and approaches. Here we take a look at four critical elements of effective security awareness campaigns.
Entire populations are being manipulated through increasingly prevalent and hyper-compelling information typically spread via social media, designed to invoke emotion and exploit known biases and provoke a tsunami of misinformation.
The most sophisticated technology in the world is not enough to combat phishing scams. which aren’t designed to break through firewalls or circumvent email gateways or endpoint security.
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