eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2023

Individuals and organizations should prioritize security awareness training, implement email security measures, and encourage vigilance when dealing with unusual or urgent requests. It provides an additional degree of security beyond just a login and password.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 7, 2023

Pentesters, posing as red teams, may previously inform the blue team, or security team, about the nature of the simulation, or they may not. Red-blue team strategy allows security teams to learn what actual attacks look like and measure their response and performance.

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KnowBe4

JULY 5, 2023

This latest impersonation campaign makes the case for ensuring users are vigilant when interacting with the web – something accomplished through continual Security Awareness Training. Whatever the scenario, keep in mind that such things will never compel you to give away OTPs, PINs, or passwords.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

This article will provide some insights into current phishing methods cyber-criminals leverage to exploit human behavior, performance metrics useful for measuring organizational resiliency to phishing, and examples of free tools that can be leveraged to conduct internal simulated phishing exercises.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 11, 2023

We already know that 10% of threats get past security solutions, so we're left with educating the user to stop attacks. Despite 71% of the survey respondents stating they had security awareness training in place, 40% do not conduct regular training, 16% only perform ad hoc training, and 9% only push training when an incident occurs.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

Explore the IT infrastructure analysis portion of our security checklist: Cybersecurity Training Cybersecurity training is a workforce initiative that helps all employees identify threats and potential attacks. Social engineering, for example, is a threat that makes use of human vulnerabilities for illegal access.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 15, 2019

Emails requesting password resets for social media accounts, online banking, you name it. For example, attackers will craft emails to look like bank alerts hoping the targets will be tricked into giving up credentials on a fake login page. Examples of these include HR@companyXYZ, or payroll@companyXYZ. Tax-related W-2 requests.

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