Diminish the Impact of Social Engineering
One of the most significant trends to emerge on the cybercrime scene in recent years has been the increasing use of targeted social engineering attacks carried out against specific end users in the name of gaining access to their devices and the protected networks that they access, and health care organizations are no exception to this reality. In attacks that have been carried out against everyone from government agencies to tech giants such as Google, cybercriminals have proven that by isolating specific individuals or groups of users and targeting them with custom threats that play on their trusted relationships, they can gain access to the most closely guarded IT networks in the world.
With the increasing value of stolen PHI and electronic payment records information, and the massive, diverse workforces typically employed by large health care organizations, the end user has become a bigger target than ever for attacks that seek to circumvent IT security controls put in place to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive information.
Using our products client-side penetration testing capabilities, organizations can lower their related exposure to social engineering threats by:
- Testing end user security awareness to reinforce policies and highlight cutting-edge targeted attack methods.
- Crawling the Web and other public resources to identify what kinds of domain-specific information may be available to attackers.
- Highlighting what level of access attackers may have from compromised devices after they carry out successful attacks.
- Redirecting vulnerable users into additional security training or rewarding diligence to security policies.
- Illustrating the need for greater employee security training to company management.
Learn how conducting penetration testing at health care institutions can help you to: