FINAL WORD
Cofense phishing
defence leverages
human intelligence
Phishing remains one of the biggest threats to businesses and
organisations, with innovative solutions required to help keep attacks
at bay. Alexandre Depret-Bixio, Vice President of Sales – META,
Cofense, explains how the company is leveraging human intelligence
as part of its phishing defence – and why this works so well.
Why is phishing such a threat to
business, especially in triggering
data breaches? According to Verizon’s most recent Data
Breach Investigations Report, email is used
in 96% of socially engin eered attacks.
Phishing is still the number one cyberattack
vector. The statistics supporting this claim
vary but all lead to the same conclusion –
phishing is the biggest spearpoint used in
data breaches. What’s more, Verizon notes that phishing
and pretexting represent 93% of all socially
engineered data breaches. (Pretexting
involves a false narrative designed to trick
the user.) And Cloudmark reports that
successful phishing attacks on average
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cost mid-sized companies US$1.6 million.
Phishing emails deliver malware of every
type, including ransomware. Phishing is also
a handy way to carry out social engineering.
For example: an email spoofing the head of
HR asking employees to click a link and log
onto a page to agree to a corporate policy.
Or an urgent message – again, spoofing
someone in the organisation, perhaps even
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