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Cybercriminals are constantly finding new, more sophisticated ways to infiltrate networks via social engineering. But Fortinet can help your customers stay safe. 

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Organizations need to continuously assess their networks against evolving threats to identify network utilization and security risks — and one of the most advanced threats they need to be concerned about is social engineering.

Social engineering refers to a wide range of attacks that leverage human interaction and emotions to manipulate the target into disclosing sensitive information. During the attack, the victim is essentially ‘fooled’ into giving away sensitive information or compromising security.

A social engineering attack typically takes three steps:  

1.    The attacker will first research the potential victim, gathering information about them and how they can use it to bypass security protocols or get sensitive data.

2.    Then, the attacker does something to gain the target’s trust. The attacker can do this in many ways — a few examples include needing to “fix a problem” on the victim’s PC or by impersonating someone the victim knows.

3.    Finally, the attacker uses the trust they built with the victim to manipulate them into divulging sensitive information or to violate security policies they wouldn’t normally break.

Fortinet can help prevent these attacks with Fortinet Secure Email Gateway (SEG) solutions. Fortinet SEG provides your customers with the ability to perform deep email scans to identify fraudulent emails that may contain threats. Fortinet SEGs also come with data leak prevention and give you the ability to archive messages and apply full encryption.

Also, the Fortinet FortiSandbox can protect your customers from zero-day attacks by confining the actions of an infected program within a safe sandbox that keeps it from infecting other areas of their network. Even if a team member were to fall prey to a social engineering attack, the malware would not be allowed to spread beyond their workstation. It could then be studied to gather intelligence on the threat and discarded.

In addition, with the FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF), known vulnerabilities existing in any of your web applications can be protected from attacks. This includes all the OWASP (Open Worldwide Application Security Project) Top 10 threats and more. FortiWeb can also tell the difference between harmless activity and malicious activity, which makes it possible for benign bots to interact with your site while still keeping it secure from threats.

For more information on Fortinet and its portfolio of cybersecurity solutions, contact the TD SYNNEX Fortinet team or visit Fortinet’s page on the TD SYNNEX website.