10 Steps to Avoid Social Engineering Attacks

This article highlights recent social-engineering intrusions attributed to the Scattered Spider criminal group against major hospitality and retail victims, and provides ten practical defensive measures—ranging from employee training and phishing-resistant MFA to network segmentation, EDR, incident response playbooks, and third‑party risk management—to reduce exposure to impersonation, deepfakes, SIM swapping, and abuse of remote access tools.