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The most obvious and significant impact is the dramatic reduction you will see in the overall risk of a phishing attack both getting past your perimeter protection and your skilled users but there are other ways to measure your investment: Customers can realize monetary ROI from PhishMe by reducing their overall risk to phishing and other security threats. Adversaries have successfully employed phishing tactics to steal intellectual property, personally identifiable information, and other sensitive information that can harm an organization’s competitive advantage and reputation. PhishMe’s solutions lower the likelihood of users being susceptible to various security risks while also increasing your IT Security team’s ability to quickly and accurately identify and mitigate an attack in progress. Specifically, this includes the amount of time and resources your IT organization must commit when responding to user reports of falling for phishing attacks, resetting passwords, slow computer performance caused by malware, and unwinding the damage caused by such incidents.

– PhishMe, a global provider of phishing defense and intelligence solutions for the enterprise, has announced the winners of the PhishMe Excellence Awards at Submerge 2016, its inaugural phishing and defense summit and user conference. * AVANGRID, Inc. a diversified energy and utility company, received the Phishing Defense Program of the Year, for consistently demonstrating the most effective all-around, top-performing phishing defense program with superior performance in detection, alerting, reporting, training, participation and results. * Palo Alto Networks, the next-generation security company, received the Most Innovative Phishing Defense Program Award, which recognized the company’s ability to think outside the box to leverage fresh approaches to achieve optimal training effectiveness and boost company-wide cyber education participation. Additionally, PhishMe recognized industry leaders for achievements in the field of incident response, honoring the team that demonstrated superior overall process of responding to phishing threats in the Incident Response Team of the Year category, and the PhishMe Community Trailblazer of the Year, an award created to recognize the PhishMe user who has gone above and beyond in their phishing defense efforts.

Coordinated by the National Cyber-Forensics & Training Alliance (NCFTA), contact information and incident details are being swapped quickly in the business and financial communities, allowing wires to be successfully recalled from far-flung places, facilitating the identification of fraudster activity, and preventing additional victimizations. The most common sequence of events is that a C-level employee email address is either compromised or spoofed in order to send a convincing message to someone in the company with the authority to send a wire. Also around this same time last year, Centrify CEO, Tom Kemp, detailed EIGHT different attempts against his company, which itself provides multi-factor authentication services. The following are some things to keep in mind when you review an email asking you to move money on behalf of your company: • Is the message really from the person that it appears to be from?

The FAU study focused on students, who were sent emails and Facebook messages with links purporting to be for photos from a New Year’s Eve party held a week before the study. We already know the bait used by the study’s authors works on students, as well as consumers, but is far less effective with enterprise users. It also appears the FAU study focused only on clicking links, but phishing threats aren’t limited to one vector. While we appreciate the FAU’s study’s confirmation of what our own research has shown about awareness, we fear it may lead enterprises to make decisions based on the erroneous conclusion that training doesn’t matter.