Coffee Break With Fuelled: Phishing

Protect Your Staff From Phishing Emails

Do you and your staff members know how to spot a phishing email?

You better hope so — the average phishing attack costs businesses $1.6 million. The fact is that businesses aren’t learning to protect themselves, which is why the number of reported phishing attacks has gone up by 65% in the past few years.

Check out our latest Coffee Break With Fuelled Video to learn more about phishing and how to defend against it:

What Is Phishing?

Phishing is a method in which cybercriminals send fraudulent emails that appear to be from reputable sources in order to get recipients to reveal sensitive information and execute significant financial transfers.

Phishing attacks are mass emails that request confidential information or credentials under pretenses, link to malicious websites, or include malware as an attachment.

With only a surprisingly small amount of information, cybercriminals can convincingly pose as business members and superiors in order to persuade employees to give them money, data, or crucial information.

What’s The #1 Way To Protect Against Phishing?

Cybersecurity training is by far the most effective way to defend your organization from phishing. This method recognizes how important the user is in your cybersecurity efforts.

A comprehensive cybersecurity training curriculum will train users to ask important questions about each and every email they receive:

• Do I know the sender of this email?
• Does it make sense that it was sent to me?
• Can I verify that the attached link or PDF is safe?
• Does the email threaten to close my accounts or cancel my cards if I don’t provide information?
• Is this email really from someone I trust or does it just look like someone I trust? What can I do to verify?
• Does anything seem “off” about this email, its contents, or the sender?

The right training services will offer exercises, interactive programs, and even simulated phishing attacks to test your staff on a number of key areas:

• How to identify and address suspicious emails, phishing attempts, social engineering tactics, and more.
• How to use business technology without exposing data and other assets to external threats by accident.
• How to respond when you suspect that an attack is occurring or has occurred.

Your staff can have a significant effect on your cybersecurity – either they know enough to keep your assets secure, or they don’t, and therefore present a serious threat to your security.

At the end of the day, there is no perfect technological solution that will save you from phishing. It all comes down to you (and the other users at your business), and how capable you are at spotting a scam when it comes into your inbox.

You don’t have to handle it all on your own – the Fuelled Networks team of cybersecurity experts is available to help you make sure you have the best solutions and processes in place to stay secure. Get in touch with our team to learn more.

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