Majority of us have clicked on an email that seemed legit, but it wasn't. Here are three tips on how to practice safe technology habits!
But first... What is phishing??
Phishing is the attempt to obtain sensitive information like usernames, passwords, or credit card details for malicious reasons. Phishing can happen through an email, link, or even a phone call. Anyone can be targeted by phishing scams, so it is important to take steps to prevent it!
Now that we got that out of the way...here are 3 tips to decrease the chances of any phishing scams targeting you or your company.
1. Inbound email sandboxing
Deploy a solution that checks the safety of an emailed link when a user clicks on it. This will protect against new phishing tactics. The bad guys send a new URL in an email to their targets to get through the organization's email security. Their second tactic is when they inject malicious code into the website right after the delivery of the email URL. This URL will get past any standard spam solution.
2. Real-time analysis and inspection of your web-traffic
FIRST, stop malicious URLS from even getting to your users' corporate inboxes at your gateway. Even if you have an inbound email sandboxing for your corporate email, some users might click on a malicious link through a personal email account, like Gmail. In that case, your corporate email spear-phishing protection is unable to see the traffic. Bottom line: your web security gateway needs to be intelligent, analyze content in real time, and be 98% effective at stopping malware.
3. Employee behavior
The human element is incredibly important. Adopting an employee testing program and do this training on-going basis. The result isn't really employee education or security awareness –it's behavior modification.
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