Managing the human attack surface of critical infrastructure: Social engineering tactics and defense

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 Hijacking Jumps 1,000% in Last 12 Months

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

SANS webinar: Know your attack surface from the outside in

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 OSINT can also be used to protect against social engineering. In this... Read More

Just a little bit of exposed personal data can go a long way for a hacker

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

SANS: Know your attack surface from the outside in

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 showcased in Startup to Follow

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

Picnic welcomes industrial cybersecurity pioneer Robert M. Lee to its Board of Advisors

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

Picnic maintains effective security controls over its platform according to recent SOC 2 Type II report

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

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