Fundamentals of social engineering

Organizations invest a lot into their cybersecurity solutions, from security appliances to applications and developing cybersecurity teams of professionals to defend and safeguard the assets within their company. Threat actors have realized many organizations are already implementing Defense in Depth (DiD), which provides a multi-layered approach to implementing security solutions to reduce the attack surface of the organization and its assets. With a DiD approach, organizations do not rely on a single layer of protection, whether it's using a Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) to filter network traffic between their internal network and the internet or even using some type of endpoint-based protection to mitigate threats on host systems.

Using a multi-layered approach ensures an organization has security solutions to protect their wireless networks, web-based traffic, and email-based traffic, actively monitoring traffic flows with Deep Packet...