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Human attack surface management for your Enterprise Employees Supply Chain |
Hackers scan your exposed employee, corporate, and 3rd party data looking for human targets and avenues of compromise. Picnic automatically assembles, analyzes, and flags this public data for risk, and gives security teams the means to prioritize defenses and prevent attacks.
Hackers are targeting employees to get in the door
The public data used to compromise your people and breach your organization lies outside the realm of traditional cybersecurity.
92% of cyber attacks are specifically crafted from users’ public data.
95% of cybersecurity breaches happen because of human error.
90% of cyber attacks start
with a phishing email.
The Picnic Platform
Leverage predictive intelligence from external data to prevent human and organizational compromise.
- Breach data monitoring and neutralization
- Data broker visibility, removal, and escalation
- Social media operational security and privacy
- Exposed remote services tracking
- Personal device secuity
- HVT protection
- Suspicious domains and accounts identification
- Automated threat modeling
- Credential stuffing prevention
- Password hygiene
- Risk-based authentication integration
- Tailored security awareness training
- Impersonation (spoofing) prevention
- Attacker infrastructure and account neutralization
- Insider threat flagging
- Improved incident response
- Sensitive data monitoring and removal
- Suspicious domain and account neutralization
- Insider threat flagging
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Social engineering is a key and growing threat to industrial organizations and Picnic offers important innovations to help the community strengthen its defenses. Picnic's team understands how threats perform reconnaissance and initial targeting against companies and has built a privacy-forward platform for organizations looking to strengthen their cybersecurity.
In today’s world, with the explosion of connected devices and more identities and credentials online than ever before, securing the ‘person in the chair’ and addressing the ‘identity of things’ must become our top priority. Social engineers have become such a danger to businesses today because they have an asymmetrical advantage. They can cast a very wide net but usually need only one bite to break in and wreak havoc. Picnic works to take away the social engineer’s advantage by reducing the visibility and attack surface of an enterprise’s people, creating a more secure human data layer that is harder to breach. They help protect the very thing that is most vulnerable and not very good at securing itself- the human OS. Picnic’s timely platform is greatly needed and most welcome.
Digital consumers are unaware of how information about them is being saved, aggregated, and circulated today. The boundary between an individual’s work and personal life has blurred. This has created a unique and complex cybersecurity challenge for the enterprise: how to protect employees in an environment where their data is being used against them by social engineers. The primary challenge with this dilemma is that it continues to grow larger due to the success of cyber criminals. Picnic has created an employee-forward cybersecurity platform that empowers businesses and security specialists to know and manage digital footprints beyond the conventional perimeter while offering a benefit to the employee.
Picnic has built their technology platform from a perspective of deep domain expertise. They have combined their knowledge of human reconnaissance and intelligence, engineering, cybersecurity, and the psychology of social engineering to deliver an incredible platform. It is a refreshing approach to a very big problem. With Picnic, businesses can understand not only how they are vulnerable, but also why; they can see what the hackers see and adapt to protect themselves against the social engineering threat with quantifiable results.
Picnic is charting and combating the risk space that’s responsible for over 90% of cyber-attacks today: the exploitation of public data by social engineers. Along with their expert team, Picnic has pulled in a fantastic circle of advisors from across the private and public sector as well as academia to solve this problem. Picnic allows enterprises to assess risk on a new and profound level and to take the strategic security actions necessary to minimize that risk automatically and continuously in a way that protects not just businesses, but all their people too. It’s timely technology and every industry needs this capability in their security arsenal.
As cybersecurity infrastructure has become more and more difficult for hackers to break into directly, social engineering-based attacks have become an ever-present menace. All too often, victims are caught unaware in a psychologically persuasive trap concocted by an attacker using a person’s own data. Picnic gets at the root of the problem by going to the source of what makes a social engineer’s scheme so convincing: the personal information that the attacker requires to trick people. In helping organizations and individuals see themselves the way a social engineer sees them, and to manage their own data footprint, Picnic effectively makes them harder for social engineers to target, addressing the problem directly and proactively.
Ransomware and malware delivered through phishing and social engineering continue to be the number one threat in cyber today. These attacks target our age-old “weakest-link”– people and their inability to control personal data on the internet. Once in the “wild,” personal data is commonly exploited as Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) by attackers. Picnic’s unique platform stands out as the right mix of security technology, innovation, and predictive intelligence to help individuals and enterprises reduce their exposure to OSINT. Picnic’s platform not only provides the continuous controls, automation, and flexibility to significantly reduce OSINT risk, but also presents a valuable benefit to an organization’s people on a personal level. No one wants their personal information out there without their explicit permission. Picnic finds it and reduces it.
Picnic has some very unique characteristics as a cybersecurity company challenging the complex and somewhat shadowy domain of social engineering. Their innovative platform constructs actionable insights into an organization’s exposure surface from the perspective of the social engineers themselves. As a security team, it’s invaluable to be able to see from the outside-in where you are vulnerable, why, and what kinds of threats you’re being exposed to. Picnic’s platform not only does this and puts this information into digestible metrics and scores for internal and external comparison, but also gives security personnel the knowledge and means to do something about it. Additionally, Picnic’s companion app for employees goes much further than training awareness in that it empowers them to be an extension of the security team. It creates a natural collaboration point between the employee and the employer while maintaining employee privacy and providing real-world benefit to both parties. In today’s world, it’s refreshing to see innovative thinking being applied in such an approachable yet powerful way.
We live in a digitally fluid world. Data trails cross the work/home boundary with ease. Social engineering hackers are opportunistic and simply choose their targets based on accessible data. With that in mind, people must take control of their information – at work and at home before it can be used against them. Picnic allows its users to see their data footprint to know if they are vulnerable and it provides the actions necessary to reduce their attack surface. In doing so, users are no longer easy targets. The fact that companies can offer this service to employees as a benefit is of tremendous value. Picnic’s product is a no-brainer; it makes people safer at work and safer at home. Most folks know their credit score – someday soon I see them knowing their Picnic score.
Picnic’s platform is one of the most cost-effective ways to improve an organization’s cybersecurity – because it focuses on educating and safeguarding the risk to its people. Infrastructure security has come a long way, threat actors have had to adapt, and the cybersecurity game has changed in today’s environment, where there is no true network edge. Social engineers using our own data against us is a central issue. If organizations want to protect against today’s increasing cyber risks, it’s critical that they view their employees’ safety and security holistically. Picnic protects individuals and their families in office, home, and remote environments, creating an enterprise culture of safety, security, and privacy. It empowers their people and delivers a smart cost-effective layer of cybersecurity that modern security teams need.
Everyone knows the human element is the single largest source of breaches. A huge hurdle in addressing this challenge is how difficult it is for organizations to get a handle on the data that makes up their human attack surface. Picnic is the first platform I’ve seen that can map threat intelligence to an organization’s employee population and prioritize who will be targeted and how, enabling the organization to proactively mitigate the risk of human-centric attacks. I believe their technology can change the game for security teams and I am happy to be a part of what they are doing.
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