Phishing Awareness

Phishing attacks can affect anyone and everyone without the proper protection. Successful attacks can lead to a damaged brand reputation, costly data breaches, business disruption and even regulatory fines. Protect yourself against these costly attacks with phishing awareness training from CHR Managed Services. Our highly skilled team of experts help protect your network and business from phishing attempts by training your employees on what to look for and how to handle potential phishing.

Phishing is a type of spam mail and is an attempt to obtain confidential information, such as financial information or user credentials. Typically done by email, the message appears to be from a legitimate organization, like a financial institution, but contains a link to a fake website that replicates the real one. It’s a way to get into an otherwise secure network as it leverages an internal user to bypass automated security.

Phishing attacks are not prejudiced and attack anyone. The true terror of phishing is that it targets the weakest link of any cybersecurity defense – the end user.

Phishing has spawned other related attacks as well. Whaling is a type of phishing scam that targets high-profile executives with access to highly valuable information. Requests for wire transfers are very popular with whaling. Smishing is also on the rise, which is using SMS messages as the delivery vehicle for the phishing attack. Phishing has evolved beyond simple emails and are now using HTTPS sites to appear more legitimate.

CHR Managed Services offers phishing attack employee training. Our team will educate your employees on what phishing is, what attacks can look like, and steps to avoid falling into a trap. Often, in advance of the training, our team will send “friendly phishing tests” to your employees to see how many take the bait. We then use this information to teach a valuable lesson on how to better safeguard yourself against attackers. For more information about how we can help protect your business, contact us today.

Other Threats We Can Protect You From

• Spam
• Malware
• Ransomware

Phishing is a type of spam mail and is an attempt to obtain confidential information, such as financial information or user credentials. Typically done by email, the message appears to be from a legitimate organization, like a financial institution, but contains a link to a fake website that replicates the real one. It’s a way to get into an otherwise secure network as it leverages an internal user to bypass automated security.

• Educate yourself and your employees on how to recognize a phishing email 
• Check links before clicking them by hovering over 
• Check the sender's email address
• Do not click on a link from someone you do not know
• Delete suspicious messages
• If you receive an email asking to enter credentials or change your password, verify (outside of the email) that it is coming from the actual source. Do not respond to the email, call the source (e.g., financial institution).
• Do not provide personal information based on a link from an email 

Phishing can affect a business in many ways, leading to: 

• Loss of data (data breach)
• Loss of customers
• Reputational damage
• Monetary fines (if regulations such as HIPAA or PCI are compromised)