State of the Phish: Effectively Reducing Phishing and Malware Infections


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%.