Rohyt Belani spoke to SC Magazine UK about recent survey results that revealed a knowledge gap among UK workers regarding the phishing threat.
Punishing users is the wrong approach to improving security behavior
Punishing users for undesired security behavior? We believe that punishing users is a misguided idea that will alienate them and make it difficult to ever improve user security behavior. Every so often, someone in the industry brings up the idea of punishing users as a way of motivating/improving behavior. We hadn’t heard much on this topic since we wrote a post on it back in September; however, it has flared up again.
CNN’s social media accounts compromised by Syrian Electronic Army
Scott Greaux explains how enterprises can defend against the type of social engineering attacks carried out by the Syrian Electronic Army by training their users.
Report: Phishing Attacks Enabled SEA To Crack CNN’s Social Media
Inside the Syrian Electronic Army Hack on CNN
Founder of Mandiant and Chief Operating Officer of FireEye Joins PhishMe Board of Directors
CHANTILLY, Va., Jan. 14, 2014 – PhishMe® Inc. today announced the appointment of Kevin Mandia to its Board of Directors. As the leading provider of immersive security behavior management, PhishMe helps enterprises improve employee resilience to and reporting of targeted phishing, malware, and drive-by attacks – the most common attack vectors used to compromise corporate and government networks today.
Will UK Government’s Cyber Streetwise Campaign Make a Difference? We Ask the Experts
PhishMe’s Scott Greaux offered his perspective on the best way for a government to participate in cyber security awareness initiatives.