Big businesses are constantly under attack, and that affects everyone from customers and business partners to parties with national security interests.
When successful, the initial compromise is only a means to an end — the real goal is to mount follow-on attacks like spearphishing, extortion attempts and account takeover (ATO). And much to the chagrin of security experts, those attacks on household-name companies are growing. Last year saw more than 6,500 data breaches, exposing a staggering 5 billion compromised records, according to Risk Based Security.
