Strategies to Protect Enterprises From Phishing Attacks

The changing technology landscape has provided enterprises with easy methods of communicating across geographies. The widely networked organizations have rapidly adopted the new age mobile devices and wireless networks to access the corporate networks and workstations from any location leading to vast amounts of digital data being transferred and stored. Though technology has provided enterprises with increased mobility and business continuity in the face of adversities, this   has also led to an alarming increase in cybercrime and security breaches. The anytime anywhere access is providing a breeding ground for organizing cyber crimes.


With highly sophisticated and targeted attacks and data breaches becoming the norm in today's cyber world, enterprises need to understand that phishing is one of the most commonly used techniques by the cyber criminals to spread malware and destruction. Phishing attacks, are attempts by the criminals to acquire sensitive information available through  the electronic communication mode. The cyber criminals use spoofed emails to trick unsuspecting employees  to share information related to user-names, passwords, bank account and credit card details. The wide use of social networking sites by the employees have also increased the chances of Phishing attacks. The techno savvy enterprises thus need to take adequate protection from Phishing attacks.


Irrespective of the firewalls and encryption software certificates and other authentication mechanisms deployed by the technologically enabled enterprises to protect the corporate network and business critical data, Phishing attacks dodges these security systems and even attack high-profile targets. The targeted information however ranges from private data  such as customer's health, credit or other personal data to corporate data  such as trade secrets, business plans and  sales forecasts. A single employee falling prey to Phishing attacks may have a negative impact on an organization's brand and reputation. This might lead  to significant financial losses in the form of loss customer loyalty and decline in shareholder value. Thus software developers and the corporate world need to collaborate to work out effective anti-Phishing tools to encounter such cyber attacks.  Further, as  the Phishing attacks go through various routes to reach the data stored in the network and IT infrastructure enterprises should also create adequate Phishing awareness among its employees.


Leading service providers of security solutions have designed and developed a diagnostic solution that can help enterprises protect their most valuable assets their employees, from becoming Phishing victims. By proactively educating the users this helps them identify Phishing attacks so they can avoid becoming bait in the future. Further, through simulated Phishing attack this solution helps capture the user's potential reaction to a real attack. By leveraging on the user's response to such simulated attacks, the solution helps enterprises generate action plans that can be implemented to avoid future pitfalls. Such anti-Phishing strategies when adopted by the enterprises will act as a line of defense against cyber criminals.


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