Security News > 2020 > November > The CEO’s chuckling at their email… you better check your security defenses

They really know how to mix a perfectly balanced cocktail of software engineering and human insight when it comes to crafting the perfect spear-phishing attack.

If a CEO or other C-level exec is hooked, they have the power to deliver virtually whatever the attackers desire - whether it's authorizing payment transfers, or spilling company secrets, or any number of actions only a chief exec can take, unchecked.

How do you save your CEO from spear phishing, and therefore save the company as a whole?

Well, you can start by joining this webcast on December 2, during which The Register's own Tim Phillips will be joined by Barracuda Networks' CTO Fleming Shi to consider just that question.

They'll be talking through the pains that cyber-crims take to craft a modern spear-phishing attack, and how that makes them so effective and so potentially devastating.

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