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For everyone patting themselves on the back for how much better they are at securing their data realize that for way over 80% of incidents the attack vector is email and social engineering. Look at Red team exercises of competent teams and try to honestly answer the question would have they succeed with that tactic at your company. So yes having much better practices vs what we see here is very important but will not really help much if you are being targeted by a competent adversary.



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