Kevin Epstein: Targeted attacks refine the tactics of phishing. They’re sent to a very limited set of very specific or chosen enterprise users. Epstein: “The challenge of detection has gone from spotting an army of people dressed in red coats, coming over the hill, to finding the few folks sneaking in, carrying time bombs – targeted attacks” Epstein: Many of these traditional phishing attacks are detected and caught in enterprise environments because the right e-mail security gateway solution is deployed and configured at the perimeter.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/targeted-attacks-best-defense-a-5586