How Hackers use Online Job Postings to Infiltrate Organizations

Michael Piccalo is the Director of OT/ICS Systems Engineering at Forescout Technologies. There are more than 4 million unfilled positions across businesses of all sizes and industries, according to a 2019 (ISC)2 study. The more information available about your company, the employees, the plant systems, available positions and locations, etc., the easier it is to craft an attack with a higher probability of success. Organizations are often not aware of what sensitive or revealing information is freely available with just a simple search.