{"id":1562,"date":"2008-07-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/07\/22\/security-service-tests-staff-vigilance-against-phishing-attacks\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:39:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:39:36","slug":"security-service-tests-staff-vigilance-against-phishing-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/07\/22\/security-service-tests-staff-vigilance-against-phishing-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Service Tests Staff Vigilance Against Phishing Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.  &#8220;We developed a Web-based portal which is PhishMe.com, which allows our clients to drive the creation and execution of mock phishing exercises,&#8221; said Intrepidus CEO Rohyt Belani.  &#8220;We provided them all the tools &#8230;  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.&#8221;  Studies have shown spear phishing, which involves targeted attacks against a domain or organization, has picked up in the past several months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials at VeriSign&#8217;s iDefense Labs reported last month that 15,000 people fell victim to spear phishing attacks by two different groups during the preceding 15 months.<\/p>\n<p>Intrepidus provides templates to help organizations simulate attacks and allows organizations to measure, track and report on employees&#8217; responses to the tests.<\/p>\n<p>PhishMe does not collect sensitive information, Higbee said, explaining that JavaScript on the Web site overrides anything users actually input into fields during tests.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/c\/a\/Security\/Security-Service-Helps-Organizations-Test-Awareness-of-Phishing-Attacks\/?kc=rss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4049,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions\/4049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}