An employee working from home opens an attachment in an existing email thread with coworkers. Someone else quickly types in a URL to look something up while working on a project, without noticing they made a small typo. A new colleague receives an email that looks like it comes from a payroll company and responds with their Social Security number and bank account information.
Each of these scenarios could be just part of a normal day for an employee who spends most of their time working at a computer. But they’re also opportunities for a cyber attack that could wreak havoc for an entire company, its employees, and its customers. Now that more employees are working remotely for all or part of the work week, outside of the security of a company’s internal IT systems, the threat is even greater. In the first few months of the pandemic, cyber attacks on cloud infrastructure skyrocketed by 600%.
“Employees have a role to play, but more sophisticated attacks make it next-to-impossible to spot them,” says Ian Pratt, global head of security for Personal Systems at HP. “That’s why it’s key that employees feel empowered to inform IT when something looks off.”
1. Ransomware
2. Spear phishing
3. Spoofing
4. Pretexting
5. Typosquatting
6. Shoulder surfing
7. Zero-click attack
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