Effective Protective Covering with Automated Anti-Phishing Tools

The increasing dependence on technology has given birth to leading organizations and brands in every industrial sector  making their own space on the world wide web. The social engineering and social intelligence has now become a major source of customer interaction. Most of the  brand leaders and  globally bound and technologically sound organizations that follow this customer and retention methodology  are  challenged by cyber threats and phishing attacks.

Phishing is  defined as a criminal strategy that  uses social engineering schemes and technical lapse  to send across  fraud e-mails claiming to be from legitimate businesses and lead recipients.  The attackers counterfeit websites which  are  designed to lead  individuals into disclosing sensitive data,   usernames and passwords. Though there are a number of solutions prevalent for safeguarding against technology attacks, protection from  phishing attacks require anti phishing tools that can guard the main  target areas-  people and process.

Strategic phishing attacks targeted towards people can negatively impact a company’s brand and reputation. A single employee falling prey to phishing attack  may help revel sensitive data ranging from customer’s private data, to corporate trade secrets, business plans and sales forecasts to outsiders. This greatly impacts  customer trust,  leading   to decline in shareholder value and significant financial losses.

The leading service providers today make use of   anti phishing software  that can be installed internally within the client organization. Customized  with information about people, processes and technology,  the target audience is taken through a simulated phishing attack , the results of which are tracked, analyzed and reports generated.  Such detailed reports of the employees social behavior towards the attacks help organizations  protect their employees from phishing attacks.

By making use of such diagnostic solution,organizations can proactively educate the users and help them recognize phishing attacks and avoid being phishing baits. The statistics provided on user behavior, security awareness level among employees, identification of data leakage, assessment of data loss prevention programs and incident test response program,  helps organizations  take on the first step to anti phishing strategies.

The automated anti-phishing tool installed in most of the new age enterprises provides statistics on user behavior, measures security awareness among employees, identifies data leakage, assesses Data Loss Prevention (DLP) programs and tests the incident response program. Further organizations can diagnose risks involved in specific divisions or the entire business, understand user behavior and controls across the enterprise, quantify the potential risks from social engineering and also provides a road map for  security awareness and training programs. This software tool helps organization to identify its weak links among the workforce, process or technology and prioritize remedial actions  and protection from phishing.

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