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FYI, THERE’S A FASTER
WAY TO STOP ACTIVE
PHISHING THREATS
Phishing remains a primary concern for businesses
and organisations but there are solutions available to
ensure CIOs are always one step ahead of attackers.
Kamel Tamimi, Principal Security Consultant at Cofense,
tells us more.
L
et’s talk problems. Everybody knows
that phishing is a huge problem.
Targeting unsuspecting humans, it’s
the vector behind data breaches and theft
on a massive scale. A couple of stats bear
this out: email now delivers 92% of malware
according to the Verizon, Data Breaches
Investigations Report, 2018, while the
average user receives 16 malicious emails
per month according to Symantec’s Internet
Security Threat Report, 2018.
Organisations working on a phishing
awareness problem are chasing ghosts
(or simply not paying attention to the
data.) Proactive companies left awareness
www.intelligentcio.com
years ago and focus on harnessing human
intuition. In phishing simulations based
on real active threats, trained users
perform well – in fact more report the
threats instead of falling for them, often
by margins of 2-to-1 or even 3-to-1. That’s
according to the Cofense, State of Phishing
Defense 2018.
The chart you see here is based on data
in the META region. You’ll see the energy
industry has over 16 reporters for each
susceptible user (resiliency rate). That’s
not just very good, it is the best. It proves
what is possible. It’s ironic that financial
services, the industry that spends the
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EVERYBODY
KNOWS THAT
PHISHING IS A
HUGE PROBLEM.
TARGETING
UNSUSPECTING
HUMANS, IT’S THE
VECTOR BEHIND
DATA BREACHES.
INTELLIGENTCIO
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