Copy of Phishing is No Longer Just Email: It’s Social

Despite years of publicity, phishing remains the largest insider threat that organizations face. The business impact of employees unwittingly give up personal and corporate information to phishing attempts is staggering:

  • 93% of IT security breaches are the direct result of some form of phishing
  • 34% of all phishing attacks explicitly target enterprises
  • 1 in 3 customers will stop doing business with a company that experiences a cybersecurity breach

Further exacerbating this alarming trend, users generally access social network and messaging apps through mobile devices, which tend to be the weakest link in an enterprise’s security structure.

Read this white paper to learn more about the state of phishing threats and its impact on the enterprise.

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