A Cape Cod Community College graduate, Wayne Nordstrom is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in cyber security from the University of Maryland. A former security engineer at CVS Health, Wayne Nordstrom is a senior vulnerability risk manager at Blue Cross Blue Shield. He specializes in phishing attacks defense.
Phishing attacks aim to steal important data from a person, such as credit card numbers or login credentials from important websites. In a phishing attack, the hacker tries to disguise themselves into a trustworthy source of entity such as a university, for example, or a bank, and make a person send their credentials. Typical phishing attacks can be sent through e-mail or messages. A person is then tricked into entering a fake link that creates problems in the computer and delivers data to the hacker.
There are ways for companies to defend against phishing attacks and prevent damage caused by them. One of them is two-factor authentication. It adds an extra layer that checks whether or not a website is safe for a person to log in to it.
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