State of the Phish: Effectively Reducing Phishing and Malware Infections

State of the Phish: Effectively Reducing Phishing and Malware Infections

 

Available On Demand
Duration 1h 0min
Speakers
Trevor Hawthorn
CTO
Wombat Security Technologies
Trevor Hawthorn
Trevor Hawthorn joined the Wombat team in October 2015 with the acquisition of ThreatSim, where he was co-founder and CTO. Trevor has a technical and hands-on background, with over eighteen years of information security experience in both consulting and enterprise security across a wide-range of industries. Besides being a regular presenter to the FBI NIPC classes at Quantico, VA, he has held positions at Earthlink, UUNET, Cybertrust (now Verizon Enterprise Security Solutions), and in 2005 co-founded Stratum Security, a security consulting boutique where ThreatSim was developed.
Amy Baker
VP of Marketing
Wombat Security Technologies
Amy Baker
Amy Baker, Vice President of Marketing at Wombat Security Technologies has been in the information technology and security industry for more than ten years and has been specifically focused on info security awareness and training for the last few years. Amy led the development of Wombat’s Best Practices Methodology for Security Education programs and along with her team drives the enhancement of their security education software. She has presented at ISSA, ISACA, Cyber Security Summit, SecureWorld, SecurityCurrent, and CISO Executive Network events and webinars.

Phishing continues to pose a growing threat to the security of industries of every kind — from financial organizations to government contractors to healthcare firms. Today’s savvy phisher manages to evade even the most significant safeguards through carefully planned, socially engineered email phishing attacks.

In fact, according to Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Reports, 95% of all espionage attacks and nearly 80% of all malware attacks involve phishing. And people — your internal users — are the largest and most vulnerable point of entry.

In this session we will review high-level findings and insights from the Wombat Security State of the Phish report that was released in January 2016. You will hear about:

  • Feedback from information security professionals on what they see happening with phishing in their organizations and how they are protecting themselves
  • Information on how often, and what types of phish end users are falling for
  • Data and analysis of click and open rates from millions of simulated email phishing campaigns, including: who’s most vulnerable, browser and plugin stats, and platform data across industries

You will also gain actionable advice about running a successful anti-phishing program and learn tactics that several large organizations have used to reduce malware infections and phishing attacks from the wild up to 90%.

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