Advanced Anti-Phishing Software to Alleviate Social Engineering Attacks
Have you come across mailers or websites that ask you for personal details or lead you to tricky links and web pages as you browse? If yes, then you are not the only one. The same has taken place with millions across the world, both in the professional as well as the personal sphere. This phenomenon is popularly known as Phishing, which is a malicious software and can often lead to loss of personal data as well as damaging of the computing device.
Today advanced phishing attacks mainly aim at the unsuspecting workers in order to access crucial and private information. There are various employee awareness programs as well as anti-phishing solutions that help in providing a limited security from these attacks. However, there are service providers making use of the latest technologies and employee research and have introduced innovative anti-phishing software that not only secures the employees from these attacks but also set up a prioritized action plan in order to lessen the scope of probable threats.
With the rise of social engineering phishing awareness has become an essential concern worldwide. Such vicious attacks can lead to numerous corporate crisis as it results in critical data being leaked to third party intruders. Hence, this can often lead to the loss of an enterprise’s reputation and brand value. At times, there can also be financial loss resulting from phishing attacks. Private information that are leaked by phishing attacks comprise information pertaining to credit cards, Visa, passport, passwords as well as corporate data such as sales forecasts, business plans and many others.
The generic phishing protection services and products at times only address the technology and process used. However, few solutions are there that aim at addressing the “people risk”. One of the current trends has been the “incident-based” reactive approach towards phishing that deals in making employees aware about the attacks. The modern day anti phishing software solutions offer the following benefits:-
1. Helps enterprises in estimating the potential risks linked with phishing
2. They offer flexible reporting capabilities and incorporate them back into the enterprise’s key performance-indicator framework
3. Offers a detailed “road map” solution concentrating on the security awareness and training within the company
4. Helps in recognizing the weakness within people, process and technology links
5. Helps in prioritizing remediation attempts through effective benchmarking and maturity analysis
6. Helps in increasing employee awareness and knowledge to help guard sensitive information
Hence, we see that the modern day service providers of anti-phishing software solutions help the enterprises to estimate the employee aptitude to respond to phishing attacks. The protection therefore, not only focuses on computing devices but also people’s mindset and awareness.
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