Phishing is one of the most common, effective, and damaging types of attacks used by hackers to gain access to accounts, steal data, and scam your company. There has been an increase in the number of phishing attacks in recent years. However, as a result of Covid-19, which has caused many organizations to shift to remote working, phishing attacks have skyrocketed.
How Can You Stop Phishing Attacks?
Email Filtering
A Secure Email Gateway is your first line of defense against phishing. Email gateways are used to automatically filter out harmful and malicious emails and quarantine them away from user inboxes. A good email gateway will filter out 99.99 percent of spam emails and remove any emails that contain malicious links or attachments. As a result, they are critical in preventing users from receiving fraudulent phishing emails.
Phishing Protection Inside the Email Inbox
One of the difficulties with phishing is that once a phishing email has been delivered to a user’s inbox or an account has been compromised and is sending internal phishing emails, administrators may find it difficult to reach into user inboxes and remove the threat.
Security Awareness Training
Phishing attacks rely on human error to succeed. They do not try to bypass security technologies; instead, they rely on human error, such as reusing passwords, being duped by well-crafted webpages or emails, and being too busy to examine each email for signs of a scam. Security Awareness Training is an important step in combating this and increasing awareness of threats and how to stop them.
Summary
Social engineering can be extremely damaging, but combining security awareness training with strong technological defenses is the most effective way to prevent phishing attacks against your users and your organization. To know more about how to protect your business from Phishing attacks, connect with Cegura Technologies.
