Phishing and Account Compromise – Fighting the Social Engineering Threat to G Suite

“We’ve confirmed that a SolarWinds email account was compromised and used to programmatically access accounts of targeted SolarWinds personnel in business and technical roles,” SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna.

The state-of-the-art security infrastructure and processes protecting Google data centers make it virtually impossible to breach directly using technology-focused attacks, but human error is an unpatchable weakness in any data protection plan and threat actors are leveraging increasingly sophisticated social engineering tactics and tools with great success. Phishing attacks have increased more than 400% in the past 12 months resulting in organizations experiencing 12.2 incidents each month in which an unauthorized third-party exploits compromised credentials to gain access to corporate data stored in a cloud service. Native G Suite functionality and traditional email security and data protection solutions simply cannot protect you from these kinds of attacks.

Join the Spanning Team as they discuss the business and technical trends driving the growth of social engineering and detail the anatomy of modern social engineering attacks, why they are so successful and how they avoid detection by traditional solutions. You’ll also learn actionable strategies and actions that you can implement today to help protect your tenant and see a demonstration of the all-new Spanning 360, an end-to-end solution designed specifically to combat the social engineering threat to G Suite.