KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Always, of course, but there are certain times when they should be especially alert. A study of cyberattacks has found that criminals are particularly attentive to changes in corporate leadership. When should organizations be on guard against social engineering ?

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IT Governance

AUGUST 20, 2018

After studying the most common vulnerabilities in small, medium and large organisations, Coalfire concluded that mid-sized organisations are generally the most secure. However, this strength turns to weakness when it comes to phishing. How to avoid phishing attacks . Find out more about phishing >> .

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IT Governance

JANUARY 7, 2018

Phishing is big business for cyber criminals. According to PhishMe’s Enterprise Phishing Resiliency and Defense Report 2017 , phishing attacks rose by 65% last year, with the average attack costing mid-sized companies $1.6 Help your staff avoid phishing attacks. million (about £1.2 Social: 16.0%. Job function: 11.8%.

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KnowBe4

AUGUST 22, 2019

MediaPRO today announced the results of a commissioned Total Economic Impact TM study that revealed as much as $256,400 in total benefits for an organization implementing MediaPRO’s security and privacy awareness training platform. Third-party simulated phishing tool savings of $23,625. Reduced incident remediation costs by $58,968.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Security experts often warn us about the threat of phishing, but how are we supposed to know what a scam looks like in practice? As @cakestoriesbyL mentioned phishing@cebtrica.com is not working. The phishing email I received is worrying as it looks authentic and many would have fallen for it. pic.twitter.com/wLMVK8Lv1z.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 6, 2019

phishing emails every week. There’s plenty of advice on how to spot phishing scams , but without any real-world examples that explain how they work, it can be easy to see the threat as purely theoretical. That’s why we’ve decided to review phishing attacks in practice. Your employees receive an average of 4.8 What’s the lesson?

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IT Governance

JULY 6, 2022

It’s not simply a case of sitting your employees down on a training course and considering it ‘job done’. Fortunately, the creator of the forgetting curve, Hermann Ebbinghaus, explained that when training courses are done correctly, they can improve learners’ retention levels. Personalise training courses.

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IT Governance

MAY 18, 2020

Almost half of organisations have suffered a cyber security incident as a result of the sudden shift to remote working, a new study has found. Coronavirus a hotbed for phishing scams. According to Barracuda Networks’s survey, 51% of organisations have recorded an increase in phishing attacks since the lockdown began.

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IT Governance

MAY 27, 2021

For example, should an employee falls for a phishing scam, their accounts could be compromised and the attacker may target other members of staff. These are the day-to-day rules that employees should follow in addition to the guidelines outlined in your awareness training courses. Consider how your employees work.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Indeed, a Gartner study found that 95% of Cloud breaches are the result of the result of misconfigurations. Phishing scams. Phishing scams are bogus emails that purport to be from a legitimate sender. As such, the only way to protect your organisation is to educate staff on phishing attacks and teach them what to look out for.

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IT Governance

APRIL 24, 2019

The UK is one of the few countries that has seen a year-on-year reduction in ransomware attacks, a new study has found. Of course, it’s even better if you don’t get infected at all, and the best way to do that is to boost staff awareness of ransomware. Most ransomware (and malware generally) is delivered via phishing scams.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Studies repeatedly show that an organisation is more likely to be breached from an employee misplacing, stealing or being tricked into handing over sensitive information than from a criminal breaking into its systems. Organisations are struggling to find the time and money to set up face-to-face training courses.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2022

While you may disagree, data breach studies show that employees and negligence are the most typical causes of security breaches, yet these prevalent issues are least discussed. According to another study by CybSafe, human errors have been responsible for over 90% of data breaches in 2020. Customize Your Security Training.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 26, 2022

Cyber attackers were most likely to target organisations with phishing emails, with 57% of incidents involving scam messages. According to the study, 48% of executive managers said that employees had received no cyber security training in the last two years. We expect phishing to remain a major threat, along with malware.

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IT Governance

JUNE 3, 2020

The Ninth Annual Cost of Cybercrime Study found that the average cost of cyber crime rose from $11.7 For example, they might fall for a phishing scam, fail to apply appropriate defences, accidentally delete sensitive information or dispose of it. million (about £8.6 million) in 2017 to $13 million (£10.3 million) the following year.

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IT Governance

MAY 14, 2020

This includes threats such as phishing , with cyber criminals demonstrating their ability to adapt scams to the current climate. Of course, a dispersed workforce means there are plenty of other tools you’ll need to stay in touch with colleagues. Thinking long term.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 6, 2020

They also studied the employees who handled the transactions. Over the course of a month, the crooks, posing as a known vendor, used faked email messages to entice school district personnel to make three bank transfers into accounts controlled by the criminals. Armor’s study found cities and municipalities to be the No.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 16, 2021

According to a Microsoft study , 73% of workers want to keep the flexible work arrangements created in response to COVID-19, and 67% want a return to in-person collaboration. Ultimately, it’s their job to follow the advice from training courses and practice strong habits.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

He also delivers ISO 27001 training courses. Damian recently updated our Ransomware Staff Awareness E-learning Course – a 30-minute, non-technical course that’s suitable for all staff. Why is this elearning course so important? What are the key topics covered in this staff awareness course?

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2021

Some 91 percent of the respondents agreed that passwordless authentication was important to stop credential theft and phishing. I recently sat down with Avetisov to discuss a few other notable findings in HYPR’s study. The need for organizations to put up layered defenses isn’t ever going to go away, of course.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 23, 2019

Meanwhile, there are topics that almost every employee should study, like information security , phishing and the security risks associated with social media. The suite contains all eight of our e-learning courses, covering essential topics such as the GDPR , ISO 27001 and phishing.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Many workers feel the need to check work emails while on holiday, according to a T-Systems study. With our Information Security Staff Awareness E-Learning Course , your employees can learn about the most important elements of information security, including phishing, creating backups, portable media devices and business continuity.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

They can prevent the vast majority of spam and phishing emails from reaching employees’ inboxes, but with about 14.5 When that happens, employees must know how to recognise phishing emails and what they should do when they receive one. If they don’t, the information could be made publicly available. Ditto spam filters.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Studies have repeatedly shown than employee error is one of the leading causes of data breaches. We’re also making it easier than ever for you to improve your cyber security skills, with a range of promotions throughout October, including the chance to win a free place on a cyber security training course.

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IT Governance

JULY 23, 2019

Training courses show staff how security threats affect them and help them apply best-practice advice to real-world situations. Take phishing , for example. The more you know, the better prepared you are. Access controls.

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IT Governance

MAY 9, 2019

More than 5,000 people fell victim to holiday and travel booking scams last year, with their losses totalling £7 million, according to an Action Fraud and NFIB (National Fraud Intelligence Bureau) study. Such adverts are a great way to launch phishing attacks. Study receipts, invoices and terms and conditions.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

A network breach begins, of course, with an incursion. They can be purchased from data theft rings or they can be directly spear phished by the attacker. Ponemon’s 2018 State of Endpoint Security Risk study , for instances, predicts 38% of targeted attacks will use fileless techniques in 2019, up from 35% in 2018 and 30% in 2017.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Negligent employees are the leading cause of data breaches at small and medium-sized businesses across North America and the UK, according to a recent study from Keeper Security. Back in February, Ian fell foul of a phishing attack when a seemingly innocuous email from that well-loved search engine ‘Gloogle’ landed in his inbox.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

Your company stakeholders — especially the employees — should know the strategies your security team is using to prevent data breaches, and they should know simple ways they can help, like password protection and not clicking on malicious links or files or falling for phishing attacks. This varies between organizations.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

A new Barracuda study of 3,000 BEC (business email compromise) attacks – a type of social engineering in which criminals impersonate senior staff members and attempt to persuade others to transfer money to the wrong recipient or disclose sensitive corporate information – has found that the majority of them succeed because of their simplicity.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 27, 2019

An employee had fallen for a particularly insidious phishing attack, opened an infected PDF, and unwittingly let ransomware into their internal network. In fact, a recent Ponemon study showed that 77% of businesses lack proper incident response plans. The story of a colleague comes to mind. See Something, Say Something.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The 2019 study found that the average total cost of a data breach was $3.92 BEC attacks begin with a spear phishing attack sent to someone in the organisation who handles payments. You can, of course, find our full list of December 2019’s data breaches and cyber attacks on this blog in January. million (£2.99 million), a 1.5%

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Company boards, CEOs and general counsels cannot, of course, categorically prevent either breaches or rumors. Yet despite having processes in place for managing cyberrisks and legal compliance, a recent study shows that many boards have low confidence in the effectiveness of their procedures.[7]

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 1, 2022

By examining these Okta breaches in detail, we can study what counter measures need to be in place to strengthen the capabilities of MFA and IAM solutions. The attackers then created phishing pages to appear to be legitimate Okta authentication pages of the victim’s company. Also read: MFA Advantages and Weaknesses.

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

Barely a day goes by without news of an elite hacking team creating a more stealth exploit– malware , elaborate spear-phishing attacks, trojans, and a killer array of ransomware that can take factories and other organizations offline, or even hobble entire cities. Cyberattacks are constantly getting more sophisticated.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

You need user education; you need to make sure that you recognize phishing and all that sort of stuff. Dennis Fischer: I know that you teach an intro to computer security course and also a software security course. In that intro to computer security course, how much do you even get into software security, if at all?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

You need user education; you need to make sure that you recognize phishing and all that sort of stuff. Dennis Fischer: I know that you teach an intro to computer security course and also a software security course. In that intro to computer security course, how much do you even get into software security, if at all?

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