Effective Protective Covering With Automated Anti-phishing Tools
The increasing dependence on technology has given birth to leading organizations
and brands in every industrial sector making their own space on the world wide web. The social engineering and social intelligence has now become a major source of customer interaction. Most of the brand leaders and globally bound and technologically sound organizations that follow this customer and retention methodology are challenged by cyber threats and phishing attacks.Phishing is defined as a criminal strategy that uses social engineering schemes and technical lapse to send across fraud e-mails claiming to be from legitimate businesses and lead recipients. The attackers counterfeit websites which are designed to lead individuals into disclosing sensitive data, usernames and passwords. Though there are a number of solutions prevalent for safeguarding against technology attacks, protection from phishing attacks requireanti phishing tools that can guard the main target areas- people and process.
Strategic phishing attacks targeted towards people can negatively impact a company's brand and reputation. A single employee falling prey to phishing attack may help revel sensitive data ranging from customer's private data, to corporate trade secrets, business plans and sales forecasts to outsiders. This greatly impacts customer trust, leading to decline in shareholder value and significant financial losses.
The leading service providers today make use of anti phishing software that can be installed internally within the client organization. Customized with information about people, processes and technology, the target audience is taken through a simulated phishing attack , the results of which are tracked, analyzed and reports generated. Such detailed reports of the employees social behavior towards the attacks help organizations protect their employees from phishing attacks.
By making use of such diagnostic solution,organizations can proactively educate the users and help them recognize phishing attacks and avoid being phishing baits. The statistics provided on user behavior, security awareness level among employees, identification of data leakage, assessment of data loss prevention programs and incident test response program, helps organizations take on the first step to anti phishing strategies.
The automated anti-phishing tool installed in most of the new age enterprises provides statistics on user behavior, measures security awareness among employees, identifies data leakage, assesses Data Loss Prevention (DLP) programs and tests the incident response program. Further organizations can diagnose risks involved in specific divisions or the entire business, understand user behavior and controls across the enterprise, quantify the potential risks from social engineering and also provides a road map for security awareness and training programs. This software tool helps organization to identify its weak links among the workforce, process or technology and prioritize remedial actions and protection from phishing.
by: Gladeyas