Picnic is excited to be featured on Startup to Follow’s list of the top startups of 2022! Check out their list of other innovative startups that are changing the world. As for us, we protect companies against all manner of... Read More
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, traditional approaches and difficulties for security professionals in protecting against... Read More
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 all manner of human and organizational compromise. In this article,... Read More
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 how they can compromise human targets via social engineering attacks and defeat... Read More
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 levels, and the future of social engineering attacks. Agenda What is social engineering? Common attack... Read More
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 social engineers. Social engineers are hackers who use public... Read More
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 yesterday to talk about the problem of social engineering and how Picnic works to remediate... Read More
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 and its people beyond the firewall. This lack of visibility,... Read More
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 them to perform a desired action–in order to bypass security... Read More
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 owner isn’t the only victim of an account hijacking, noted Matt Polak CEO and... Read More
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 in general, this exposed, publicly available information is known as... Read More
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 of SANS discusses the importance of knowing your attack surface... Read More
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: attacks by social engineers. Picnic has built the industry’s first enterprise-wide... Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. – August 3, 2022 – VanishID, 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 their Board of Advisors. Lee is the founder and CEO... Read More
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 Security (AKA Commissum). Dhruv Bisiani talks through his day in the life of... Read More
In the very first episode, Picnic’s own Director of Global Intelligence, Manit Sahib, talks with InfoSec legend Marcello Salvati, most famously known as the creator of CrackMapExec and SilentTrinity. He is the founder and CEO of Porchetta Industries, Security Engineer at SpaceX, and is known on... Read More
Meeting all five Trust Service Principles (TSPs) along with HIPAA Security Rule Requirements, VanishID is set to deliver customer confidence in its first-of-its-kind enterprise-wide social engineering protection platform. WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 24, 2022 – VanishID, the industry’s first social engineering... Read More
Cybersecurity has traditionally been seen as a job for IT departments – and most employees assume that cybersecurity is simply a technical issue. But an examination of current threat types shows that social engineering attacks on employees is now a... Read More
