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If a single click on a phishing email can ruin the entire company, the blame doesn't lie with that individual.

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[–] cron 40 points 1 month ago

True, in many cases there is a whole chain of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, and everything starts with one phishing mail. For example:

  • successful phishing
  • VPN without 2FA, allowing the attacker access to company services
  • internal services with vulnerabilities, allowing the attacker to compromise a server
  • permission misconfiguration, allowing lateral movement

That was the point of this meme. It is not phishing alone that gets the company in trouble, its mostly a series of misconfigurations.

I think that in cyber security, we have to assume that phishing will be successful sometimes - and be prepared when it happens.