One trend the SEC has observed is an increase in the number of attacks that “combine technical vulnerabilities and people vulnerabilities,” including business e-mail compromise cases in which employees will receive seemingly genuine e-mails requesting data or money transfers that are in fact perpetrated by fraudsters.
“It is a significant area and one that we are seeing firms struggling with, and it’s one where technology alone is not the solution,” Glockner said.
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