And HR folks aren't far behind, says Proofpoint strategist
Interview Nurses are among the groups most heavily targeted by email scammers because of the value of the data they can access, according to email security biz Proofpoint's Adenike Cosgrove.
Cosgrove, an infosec strategist for Proofpoint, told The Register that not only are nurses and other frontline healthcare professionals at the top of phishing target lists, but that a healthcare worker asked her for advice on security best practice – rather than her own organisation's security team.
Explaining how the worker had watched a video of a public talk she had given about infosec, Cosgrove says: "This lady personally had to call all of the patients affected by [a previous] incident. First time she'd ever engaged with security in any way. She reached out to me and said, 'We've got an annual meeting of our ke ..
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