A quick reaction to a phishing threat can mean the difference between a massive breach or a fast fix. This reaction typically requires strong coordination across non-tech employees and their teammates over in security who can help them verify and conquer phishing campaigns. In any organization with more than one employee, the specter of phishing increases exponentially. If you’ve got hundreds or thousands of employees regularly collaborating electronically, each one of those endpoints is a potential vulnerability.
Technology can help mitigate this threat with phishing-protection solutions. Employees can easily report suspected attempts and security professionals can investigate—and potentially stop—the threat in minutes.
What does phishing look like?
Is it alarmist to say that it’s not a matter of if you’ll be attacked, but when? We don’t think so. It’s simply the nature of how we work in the modern age. Training and security products prevent many attacks, but the reality is that some will slip through. Let’s look at typical phishing scenarios.
Email is the most commonly used phishing method of attackers. Many people pride themselves on being able to spot the telltale signs of a phishing email, but malicious actors are becoming more sophisticated, often switching only one character in an email address or refining how they disguise incentives to click. Instead of big call-to-action buttons urging a reader to click, there may be a more subtle cue such as hyperlinked text that someone clicks before they even know what they’ve done. Other common phishing email indicators could be deadlines urging the reader to act quickly or an unrecognized sender email address, albeit on ..
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