Trusted employees have access to company-sensitive information, assets and intellectual property, and permission to make financial transactions – often without requiring any further approval.
Attackers target these privileged, trusted people – impersonating suppliers, regulators and colleagues – and try to encourage them to do something they have permission to do, but shouldn’t, like diverting payments to a different account.
As far as they’re aware, they’re not doing anything wrong…
Find out how to combat this threat at: https://www.corvid.co.uk/blog/are-employees-your-biggest-threat
