Ep 29: Matt Polak on the Threat of the Human Attack Surface

Episode notes

This week, we're joined by Matt Polak, Founder & CEO of Picnic, a Cybersecurity firm focused on helping companies stop social engineering attacks before they start. He is a subject matter expert in intelligence collection, having spent his career applying these skills to protect people from open-source intelligence gathering by hackers. We talk to Matt about practical steps SMBs can take to protect themselves from ransomware, simulating social engineering attacks as an educational tool, the threats posed to organizations by the human attack surface, five trendings threats you should know about, and more.

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