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CISO Guide to Phishing

Discover why phishing emails are incredibly difficult to detect and how they can lead to costly data breaches for your organization.

Key Insights

Phishing accounts for two-thirds of all advanced email attacks, making it the most common advanced email threat organizations face.

Secure email gateways block simple phishing but fail against sophisticated messages that evade signature-based detection.

Stolen credentials from phishing enable account compromise, which can escalate to payment fraud, data breaches, and ransomware.

Phishing is the most common advanced email threat that organizations face, accounting for two-thirds of all advanced email attacks.

Secure email gateways can stop simple phishing attacks that contain obviously malicious links or attachments, but more sophisticated phishing messages often sail through. And once a threat actor successfully steals credentials, they can use them to compromise accounts and launch more advanced attacks. This can lead to payment fraud, data breaches, and ransomware attacks—all of which can have costly consequences.

Download the CISO Guide to Phishing to learn:

  • How phishing attacks can be executed in multiple ways

  • How threat actors use social engineering to accomplish their goals

  • What you can do to prevent these incredibly successful attacks

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