Cybercriminals do what they do for money. According to the 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report, 96% of data breaches were caused by external actors motivated by financial or personal gain.
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What you’ll learn: What social engineering is Why social engineering matters Which organizations should be concerned Which individuals should be concerned Why current solutions fail to stop attacks How to
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The Role of OSINT in social engineering and how to manage your human attack surface Picnic CEO Matt Polak recently joined award-winning journalist Steven Bowcut of the Brilliance Security Magazine Podcast to discuss the role of
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Social engineers collect intelligence on human targets to develop identity paths for attack and compromise. Picnic emulates this external, human attack surface reconnaissance to provide customers with Target Intelligence about
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Every day, people follow a set of digital routines. Some people read the news online while drinking their morning coffee. Others check their work email from their smartphone. Still others
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Webinar with Jim Routh In this webinar, we talk with Jim Routh, a former CSO and CISO, and current board member, advisor, and investor about the problem of social engineering for enterprises,
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Exploitation through easily accessible sensitive personal information is the single largest threat to companies and their people today. It’s how nearly all cyber-attacks begin and is at the root of
DOWNLOAD E-BOOK Exploitation through publicly available information is the single largest threat to companies and their people today. Known as Open-Source Intelligence, or OSINT, this public data reveals to hackers
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Picnic Corporation founder and CEO Matt Polak discusses social engineering with analyst John Donegan. Among other topics, Polak covers the expanding attack surface, data protection at the corporate and individual
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Protecting People and Companies from Social Engineering Attacks Picnic is a cybersecurity firm going after an aspect of risk that the industry doesn’t spend nearly enough time talking about: attacks by
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Security Guy TV on how Picnic helps organizations see and remediate human risk beyond the corporate firewall Picnic CEO Matt Polak joined security expert Chuck Harold of Security Guy TV
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SANS Cyber Solutions Fest ’22 Webinar with Jim Somborovich, Cybersecurity Leader and Veteran (USMC) SOC teams have historically not had adequate visibility of the public data footprint of their organization
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SANS Blue Team Summit ’22 Webinar with Manit Sahib, Picnic Director of Global Threat Intelligence More than 90% of all cyberattacks start with social engineering campaigns which are specifically crafted
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Webinar with Robert M. Lee, Dragos Founder and CEO As traditional infrastructure has become sufficiently hardened, hackers have turned to human-hacking, or social engineering–the practice of manipulating people to get
Social media account takeover has exploded over the past year. Picnic’s own CEO Matt Polak weighed in on the social engineering dangers associated with this. Popularity Breeds Hackers An account
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SANS First Look Webcast with Matt Polak, Picnic Founder and CE0 An attacker needs very little other than open source intelligence (OSINT) to profile an organization or individual successfully. But
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Hackers today use our exposed personal data against us. More than 90% of the time, cyberattacks are specifically crafted from users’ public data. To a hacker and to cyber specialists
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Summary As the rising tide of social engineering attacks evolve in frequency and complexity, organizations are beginning to prioritize solutions that help to reduce their human attack surface. Jeff Lomas
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Picnic Protects Your Company from Social Engineers What the company does Picnic is a cybersecurity firm that proactively protects people and companies from the biggest threat vector in cyber today:
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – August 3, 2022 – Picnic, the creators of the industry’s first automated enterprise-wide social engineering prevention and detection platform, announced today that industrial cybersecurity pioneer Robert M. Lee has joined
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In the fourth episode of RedTeam Raw, Picnic’s Director of Global Intelligence, Manit Sahib, sits down with Dhruv Bisani, the Head of Red Teaming at a leading UK Consultancy, Eurofins Cyber
The following insight was written by Andres Holzer-Torres and adapted by the hatchpad team. Andres is currently the Technical Team Lead at Picnic. Career advancement discussions with friends and colleagues tend
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In the third episode of RedTeam Raw, Picnic’s Director of Global Intelligence, Manit Sahib, sits down with experienced penetration tester, ethical hacker, and current Security Consultant at Claranet (previously Sec-1), Dimitris
