Threat actors who deploy phishing and other attacks have an advantage: they don’t operate within any space of decent norms or legal jurisdiction. Accept that, and you quickly understand why the cybersecurity battle feels like fighting a tire fire with a garden hose.
Attackers are coming up with new and smart ways to infect our systems, such as infecting internet ads with ransomware payloads. Yet, somehow, we keep on seeing them retreat to an old favorite: phishing.
Preying on Emotions Always Works
If you have been feeling pretty torqued up over the last year and a half, we understand. But if you take one message away from this year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, take this: ditch the fear and be ready to slay the ‘cyber pandemic’ some are chattering about.
It may sound like Psychology 101, but beating any cyber plague comes with confronting our cyber fears. After all, many successful attacks exploit fears.
Tackling cyber fears is no different from tackling any other fear. Gather information, address it, confront it, act on it, bash through it. In other words:
Foster a culture of cyber awareness
Facilitate cybersecurity training (and there is no problem at all with the microlearning, one-step-at-a-time approach)
Put your awareness and learning to the test
Build your personal and organizational resilience.
Threat actors prey on fear through social engineering. They can also use these motivators to achieve their means: money, ideology, compromise and ego. ..
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