PREDI C TI VE I NTEL L I GE NC E
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 CISOs 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 years ago and focus on
harnessing human intuition. In phishing
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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 above 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
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