CrowdStrike achieved infamy over the last few days, as it went in one instant from being a company that supplies technologies and services to protect companies from cybersecurity threats to being directly responsible for a massive global tech outage that impacted major banks, hospitals, supermarkets, telcos, media companies and other large enterprises and forced airlines to ground flights.
“Tailgating” in cyber security refers to a physical security breach where an unauthorised person follows an authorised individual into a restricted area or facility without proper authentication. This is considered a type of social engineering attack, as it uses psychological manipulation to trick users into making security mistakes.
