Cybersecurity firm Picnic Corporation has unveiled a framework aimed at proactively protecting organizations against human-centric attacks.
Developed by Picnic in collaboration with cybersecurity experts worldwide, the Human Attack Surface Protection (HASP) Framework is a roadmap to help organizations proactively protect their human attack surfaces and reduce the risk of human-centric attacks involving social engineering and exposed data.
According to the company, cyber defenders lack a holistic and comprehensive cybersecurity framework to address the human attack surface, which sits at the intersection of OSINT and social engineering.
The company mentions Verizon’s 2023 DBIR report, which revealed that most organizational breaches today continue to be the result of human-centric attacks involving social engineering and credential compromise. These attacks persist because they rely on the exploitation of the largest security gap companies have: the human attack surface of employees, contractors, and third parties. With threat actors now having the capability to leverage AI, the effectiveness and scale of these human-centric attacks are increasing to unprecedented levels.
Washington, D.C.-based Picnic Corporation is an innovative cybersecurity firm that provides enterprises with the capability to manage their external human attack surface and to detect, prevent, and protect against social engineering and credential stuffing attacks. Picnic’s platform automatically emulates threat actor reconnaissance on the public data footprint of an organization and its people for defensive purposes, continuously monitoring and reducing company and employee OSINT exposure.
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