If cyber security is not at the top of your organisation’s agenda, it should be. With phishing attacks rising dramatically in recent years, it has become more important than ever to be on your guard. Proofpoint’s 2019 State of the
If cyber security is not at the top of your organisation’s agenda, it should be. With phishing attacks rising dramatically in recent years, it has become more important than ever to be on your guard. Proofpoint’s 2019 State of the Phish Report revealed that 83% of survey respondents experienced phishing attacks in 2018, a whopping increase of 76% from 2017. Phishing is a persistent threat to businesses, and it is crucial to know what phishing attacks are and what damage they can do in order to put the appropriate barriers in place.
Phishing attacks, sometimes referred to as spear-phishing attacks, attempt to gain sensitive, confidential information from users by pretending to be communications from a legitimate person or institution. They come in the form of text messages, emails, phone calls or whole websites and present in the same f