This blog was co-written by KnowBe4’s Data-Driven Defense Evangelist Roger A. Grimes and Chief Learning Officer John Just.
Social engineering is involved in 70% to 90% of successful compromises. It is the number one way that hackers and malware successfully attack devices and networks. No other initial root cause comes close (unpatched software and firmware are a distant second, being involved in about 33% of attacks).