Cyber Security Institute
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Security Service Tests Staff Vigilance Against Phishing Attacks
PhishMe, a new security SAAS offering from the Intrepidus Group, enables companies to launch mock phishing attacks against their own employees in the name of improving e-mail security. “We developed a Web-based portal which is PhishMe.com, which allows our clients to drive the creation and execution of mock phishing exercises,” said Intrepidus CEO Rohyt Belani. “We provided them all the tools ... so in under 30 minutes they can actually set up a mock phishing attack [that] closely mimics a real phishing attack that a spear phisher would execute against the employees.” Studies have shown spear phishing, which involves targeted attacks against a domain or organization, has picked up in the past several months.