How Piggybacking Attacks Threaten Organizational Security?

**Executive Summary:** This blog post outlines piggybacking and tailgating—social-engineering physical access attacks that allow unauthorized individuals to bypass authentication by following or being escorted by authorized personnel—details their differences, potential impacts on critical infrastructure and data, notes an unrelated explanation of TCP-level piggybacking, and recommends mitigations including enhanced physical controls, monitoring, visitor management, security awareness training, and Zero Trust practices as provided by Kratikal.