Webinar Description
Key Takeaways
- Examines how artificial intelligence is accelerating the speed, scale and personalisation of social engineering attacks
- Addresses the challenge of correlating threat signals across email, SMS, social media and voice channels
- Features perspectives from IDC, Revolut and Doppel on threat intelligence and digital risk protection
- Designed for CISOs, security leaders, threat intelligence analysts and SOC teams
- Explores the convergence of threat intelligence, email security, identity protection and human risk management
Introduction
“From Infrastructure to Inbox: How to Defend the Full Social Engineering Attack Chain” is a live webinar bringing together security practitioners from IDC, Revolut and Doppel to examine the changing nature of social engineering threats. The session is aimed at cybersecurity professionals responsible for protecting organisations against attacks that now span multiple communication channels simultaneously. As threat actors increasingly leverage artificial intelligence to craft more convincing and scalable campaigns, security teams face mounting pressure to rethink traditional defence strategies that treat each attack vector in isolation.
About This Event
This virtual session explores the full lifecycle of modern social engineering attacks, from the infrastructure attackers use to the messages that ultimately reach employees and customers. The webinar format includes perspectives from an industry analyst organisation, a major financial technology company and a specialist security vendor, offering a blend of research insights, operational experience and technical expertise. Attendees can participate live or access an on-demand recording.
The Evolution of AI-Powered Social Engineering
Social engineering attacks have traditionally relied on volume and opportunism, with attackers casting wide nets in hopes of catching unwary targets. The integration of artificial intelligence into attacker toolkits has fundamentally altered this dynamic. AI enables threat actors to generate highly personalised messages at scale, adapting content based on publicly available information about targets and their organisations. What once required significant manual effort can now be automated, allowing campaigns to operate across email, SMS, social media and voice channels simultaneously.
This shift creates particular challenges for defenders. Attacks that previously appeared as isolated incidents may actually represent coordinated campaigns, with different channels serving different purposes in the overall attack chain. A phishing email might be reinforced by a fraudulent social media profile, followed by a voice call that references the earlier communications to build credibility. Without visibility across all these channels, security teams struggle to recognise the broader pattern.
Connecting Threat Signals Across Channels
One of the central themes of the webinar is the difficulty organisations face in correlating threat intelligence from disparate sources. Email security tools, fraud detection systems, identity protection platforms and human risk management programmes often operate independently, each generating alerts within their own domain. The result is fragmented visibility that makes it difficult to identify when separate incidents are actually components of a single campaign.
The speakers will address how organisations can move beyond detection toward active disruption of attack infrastructure. This requires not only identifying malicious activity but understanding the relationships between different attack elements and taking action to neutralise threats before they reach their intended targets.
The Case for Security Discipline Convergence
The webinar positions social engineering defence as an emerging discipline that requires convergence across traditionally separate security functions. Threat intelligence, digital risk protection, email security, identity management, fraud prevention and human risk management each address portions of the attack chain, but modern threats demand a more integrated approach. Organisations that maintain rigid boundaries between these functions may find themselves unable to respond effectively to attacks that deliberately exploit gaps between defensive silos.
Who Should Attend
The session is designed for security leaders and practitioners responsible for protecting their organisations against social engineering threats. This includes CISOs, security operations centre teams, threat intelligence analysts, IT security managers and risk management professionals. The content is relevant across industries including financial services, technology, healthcare, retail, manufacturing and education, and applies to organisations of varying sizes facing similar challenges in defending against increasingly sophisticated attack campaigns.