How Executives' Personal Devices Threaten Business Security
HelpNet Security, Friday, August 11,2023
Today, individual people - not businesses or government entities as a whole - are the primary targets, or entry points, for all major cyberattacks, according to Agency.
Yet, while the cyber threat landscape has seen this major shift, security software to manage these direct personal risks has not kept up to protect public-facing individuals and leaders the way large enterprise organizations have.
Major breaches linked to targeting individuals
Over the past few years, we've seen these types of major breaches at LastPass, Colonial Pipeline, Microsoft, and more. In each case, individuals within the company were targeted directly by attackers on their personally owned devices. Techniques and exploits vary, but the trend is clear: motivated attackers know the right individual people they want to go after to get to their larger organizational goal, and they'll use any means necessary to be successful.