Giving Fraudsters a Taste of Their Own Medicine

In the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report: Analyzing how reflective social engineering can battle cybercriminals who use social engineering to fool users into divulging personal information.

In the Security Report, you'll hear:

BankInfoSecurity Executive Editor Tracy Kitten and SecureWorks' Joe Stewart discuss how reflective social engineering could help curb fraud losses and safeguard would-be victims; HealthcareInfoSecurity Executive Editor Marianne Kolbasuk McGee explain the Department of Health and Human Services' evaluation of blockchain technology to help safeguard healthcare IT; and About a new study that explains why a lack of historic data curtails the growth of cyber insurance.

The ISMG Security Report appears on this and other ISMG websites on Tuesdays and Fridays. Check out our Feb. 21 and Feb. 24reports, which respectively analyze data integrity - a core foundation of cybersecurity - in the era of fake news and how various sectors are moving away from checkbox compliance, instead taking proactive measures to secure their information assets.

The next ISMG Security Report will be posted on Friday, March 3.

Theme music for the ISMG Security Report is by Ithaca Audio under the Creative Commons license.