As the world becomes more and more dependent on online resources to complete daily tasks, such as work meetings, grocery shopping, and even exercising, the risk of cyber attacks, data breaches, and information stealing increases. If you’re not already protecting your personal information online, now is the perfect time to start, as Data Privacy Weeks kicks off today.
What does a phishing email look like? We've compiled phishing email examples to help show what a spoofed email looks like to prevent against phishing attacks.
Phishing emails can steal sensitive data and cost companies' their reputation. However, protecting a company from these scammers doesn't need to be difficult.
Email threats are ever evolving, and it’s important to stay up to date. Here are the current most common email threats and how to identify and mitigate them.
So, what are the most common types of email threats today?
We’ll explain these and more. Then, we’ll cover how to prevent, mitigate, and recover from most email threats.
Here’s some earned media you don’t want for your brand—headlines announcing that your customers are victims of a “nasty phishing scam” or that your “accounts are under attack.” Verizon and Microsoft have had to manage those headlines in recent months. And other tech companies are vulnerable to the same kind of brand damage right now. That’s because organized cybercriminals are going all-in on brand impersonation scams, and many tech brands have yet to shore up their email security.
In the Q1 2019 Email Fraud & Identity Deception Trends report, we reported that the average security operations center (SOC) is getting more than 23,000 employee-reported phishing incidents per year. Those incidents would require 54 SOC analysts to handle them in a timely matter. Yet, the average SOC only has 12 security analysts.
Mergers and acquisitions can build your company's value overnight, but business email compromise (BEC) and data breaches can tear it down just as quickly.