Communication channels: The new hunting grounds for attackers
What if your next cybersecurity breach happened during a conversation? Since the dawn of cybersecurity itself, companies have focused their efforts on fortifying and defending servers, workstations, and networks. However, with hyper-connectivity and the rise of AI, attacks are also entering everyday workplace exchanges: messaging, videoconferencing, calls, collaborative tools.
This means that, while traditional security measures are still crucial, they are no longer enough on their own. The new frontier sits across the spaces where sensitive information flows freely, often with little thought given to any potential risks.
Chief Technical Security Officer at Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise.
Just earlier this year, the NCSC warned of Russian-based actors targeting messaging apps. Social engineering via these types of platforms is also on the rise, with the ‘Cyber security longitudinal survey - wave five’ report (published in February of this year) finding that CEO impersonation scams were not just limited to email, but also...
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