You can take every precaution imaginable and still have your company get hit with a successful phishing attack. Why is that? Because hackers are just that good and employees are, well, just that human.
While you can be forgiven for being hit by a phishing attack, especially if you’ve taken reasonable precautions, there’s really no excuse for a slow response. According to an article on Security Boulevard, “researching URLs in suspected phishing incidents has become a costly and time-intensive process, according to a new survey of 300-plus security decision-makers at large U.S. firms. Nearly half of all survey respondents (47%) reported URL research times of six to ten minutes or more per incident.”
In the world of phishing attacks, ten minutes is an eternity, given that hackers can set up and take down a phishing website in less than that time. What’s even more remarkable is that “40% still use manual inspection and research to determine if a suspicious URL is malicious. This approach is costly and dangerous for large organizations that are facing a chronic shortage of trained cybersecurity staff.”
Given the availability and affordability of real-time link scanning technology, it’s surprising that “only 19% of survey respondents reported their URL research as being a fully automated, real-time process. And only one in eight organizations reported real-time operationalization of threat intelligence feeds to block live web threats.”
Phishing attacks are a real-time security threat which must be met with real-time defense. Cloud-based phishing protection like that available from DuoCircle.com is available for just pennies per month per employee. It requires no upfront investment, sets up in 10 minutes and works with every email service provider.
There’s simply no excuse for a slow or manual response to a phishing attack today. Get zero-hour malware and ransomware protection from DuoCircle.com. Try it free for 30 days.