Simulated Phishing for Businesses: The 5 Metrics That Really Matter
1. Introduction Simulated phishing for businesses is the most effective exercise available to measure and improve how your employees actually respond to a malicious email. It consists of sending messages that are practically identical to a real phishing attack, in a controlled and authorized environment, to observe what your workforce does before a real attacker finds out for you. For years, cybersecurity training was limited to annual courses that nobody remembers. A simulated phishing for businesses program changes the paradigm: instead of talking about threats in the abstract, every employee faces a concrete scenario and receives immediate feedback. Results are …
Cybersecurity Training for Businesses: From Awareness to Drills
1. Introduction Cybersecurity training for businesses is the investment with the best return in any organization’s security budget. Most incidents that end in data encryption, fraud or credential theft begin with a human click: a phishing email, a reused password or an attachment with a macro. No technical tool eliminates that factor; only behaviour does. A well-designed Cybersecurity training for businesses programme measures that behaviour, trains it and corrects it continuously, and it also becomes a requirement for certifications such as ISO 27001 or the Spanish National Security Scheme (ENS). In this article we explain, with the approach we apply …
Phishing Simulation with Gophish: Realistic Campaigns Step by Step
1. Introduction Phishing simulation with Gophish is one of the most effective tools for turning the human link of an organization into a measurable layer of defense, and Gophish is, without question, the most widely used open source platform for it. Every campaign launched with Gophish returns objective, quantifiable data: how many employees opened the email, how many clicked the link and how many went as far as entering their credentials on the capture page. Thanks to that data, the awareness program stops being an annual lecture and becomes a continuous improvement process. In this article we carry out a …
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