Phishing Awareness

Can Phishing Awareness Training Cause More Harm Than Good?

Can Phishing Awareness Training Cause More Harm Than Good?

by | Aug 8, 2018 | Advanced Threat Defense, Advanced Threat Protection, Phishing Awareness, Time of Click Protection

Filtering and time-of-click protection can produce results where training fails.

First, the facts: Employees who are unaware of the dangers of phishing are far more likely to become victims of phishing attempts than those who understand the process.

The FBI estimates that organizations across the United States lose $1.2 billion every year due to email scams. Since phishing is by far the most popular way to get malicious code into an organization’s network, it follows that training employees to recognize phishing attempts is an effective strategy to prevent phishing attacks.

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The Top 5 Phishing Scams in History – What You Need to Know

The Top 5 Phishing Scams in History – What You Need to Know

by | Jul 24, 2018 | Phishing, Phishing Awareness

Learn how to protect yourself by studying the biggest phishing scams in history

If we draw an analogy between phishing and fishing, some scam artists are industrial-sized trawling operations that scrape the sea clean.

Automated software and sophisticated tools make it possible for enterprising cybercriminals to scale their fraudulent emails in ways never imagined. Processes that used to be laborious and time-consuming can now be coded into automatic routines that cast a wider net than the previous generations of cybercriminals were ever able to.

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