subject: Educate Your Employees About Phishing Awareness [print this page] Most of the times the data attacks and Phishing attacks happen you are unaware. That is to say when you are browsing the internet for some information or checking your mails and come across unknown links, URL address and pop ups that look authentic at the first glance but invariably lead to your fraudulent websites selling faulty goods or the ones that asks you to share your private data like bank account details, mobile number, email id and many more.
This is the way in which most Phishing attacks operate. Phishing is an after effect of social engineering where the Phishers and hackers aim to steal all the personal details of an organization and cause losses like data theft, tarnishing of brand reputation, loss of market share and revenue. There are times when a single Phishing attack has caused the entire computing network to fail and loss causes could not be retrieved despite implementing anti-virus and anti-spyware protection and other security firewalls. The modern day hackers are smart and have come up with complicated and sophisticated Phishing attacks that look like genuine mails and URL links. Therefore, it is essential that companies resort to efficient measures in implementing Phishing protection programs so that they can avert the losses and other difficulties.
More than anything else social engineers and Phishers work on an individual or employees ignorance and unpreparedness about Phishing attacks. Most people do not know the way Phishing mails are especially created to target global brands and enterprises. Hence, it is essential to have Phishing awareness programs where a company takes the time to make it clear to their employees the ways and means by which a Phishing attack is carefully planted. Mails such as winning a huge lottery amount or a lucrative career opportunity based on a lucky draw on e-mail ids play on the individuals sentiment and trick them to submit their private data.
However, service providers today have introduced high-end anti-Phishing software that offers detailed statistics on the employee response and behavior on Phishing attacks, security awareness and also recognizes the scopes for potential data leakage and evaluates the data loss prevention. Few other important features are:
* Helps enterprises in estimating the probable threats associated with Phishing
* Offers flexible reporting capacities and incorporate them back into the enterprises main performance-indicator framework
* Offers a road map" solution highlighting on Phishing awareness and training within the organization
* Recognizes weakness within people, process and technology links
* Helps in prioritizing remediation attempts via effective benchmarking and maturity evaluation
This apart, the software assesses the incident response program and a sends a customized test to the employees informing them about their actions. Furthermore, there is an e-learning module that helps to educate employees about Phishing protection.
