What Are Phishing Attacks, And How Can You Stay Protected?

What Is Phishing?

Phishing attacks are a form of social engineering in which a cyber-criminal sends a malicious message designed to trick users into performing an action, such as revealing personal information, a password, or making a payment.

Over 75% of organizations around the world faced a phishing attack last year and 96% of phishing attacks are delivered via email.
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Attackers impersonate trusted contacts or brands and target users, encouraging them to give up sensitive information. They can be highly convincing; the average cost of a data breach caused by phishing is $3.92m USD, and 52% of organisations affected by phishing have credentials or accounts compromised.
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This can lead to financial loss, and damage your brand reputation.

How To Stay Protected Against Phishing

Example Warning Banners On Suspicious Emails

Constant Edge offers a comprehensive platform to protect businesses against phishing attacks. Proofpoint Essentials provides powerful protection at the gateway to prevent email messages containing any malicious email content from reaching your users.

IRONSCALES uses machine learning technologies to scan internal emails. Suspicious emails display a warning banner, users can report email content that doesn’t look right, and admins can send email messages to quarantine, even after they have been delivered. You can send simulated phishing emails to users, helping to educate users on what a phishing email looks like, and how to report it.

How Constant Edge Protects Against Phishing

Powerful Inbound Filtering

Powerful inbound scanning prevents, spam, malware, and malicious phishing emails entering your email network, including ransomware.

Internal Email Scanning

Advanced machine learning scans inbound, outbound, and internal email messages for signs of account compromise and phishing attack.

Simplified Deployment

Easy onboarding with APIs for Microsoft Office 365 and Google Workspace, and no MX-record changes required for internal email scanning.

End-User Reporting

End users can report suspicious messages from their inbox. Admins get instant visibility into reports, and can instantly quarantine emails, even after delivery.

Ongoing Phishing Simulation

Ongoing simulated phishing emails train users how to spot and report phishing. Emails can be customized, with granular reports into click rates.

Comprehensive Policies and Reports

Granular policies around, quarantining, allow and deny lists, and end-user controls. Advanced analytics into email threats.

Mike Waskosky

Road Machinery & Supplies Co.

“I used to get 5 calls a week from our users saying: “I clicked on a link in a phishing email and gave them my password!" Now we have Constant Edge in place, we haven't had a single one of those emails."

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