Why is Phishing Simulation important?

Remember recent malware outbreak WannaCry? It shows that opening suspicious emails and clicking on the links within is still a big problem for any organizations worldwide. This is despite having the latest and greatest anti-malware technology protecting them. Cybercriminals are increasingly using phishing to gain access to credentials and confidential information from unsuspecting recipients. Phishing attacks are also becoming more sophisticated and harder to detect. Criminals are spreading the net wide by using convincing emails that lead users to visit artificial websites, install ransomware, capture personal credentials and/or execute malicious code on user devices. A phishing simulation will help you measure just how responsive your users are. Do they click on untrusted links in emails? Do they open suspicious emails? Do they go the whole way and enter their usernames and passwords into a fake site? Continuous phishing assessments can make the biggest impact when it comes to changing behavior. We recommend running tests at least once every two months and combining them with our Security Awareness Training.