No matter how much security you implement on your network, the easiest way of getting access to a network is through email. Duo to COVID-19 users are working from home and being more active on their emails, phishing attacks increased 350 percent amid the pandemic. The world is in quarantine and everything is in disarray with the COVID-19, which greatly increased our usage and reliance on the internet. This increased reliance and usage gives hackers more opportunities to scam people with malware and phishing attacks. Even worse, many companies have fallen into ransomware because of phishing attacks.
What is phishing? The fraudalent and malicious practice of sending emails purporting to be from reputable companies or persons in order to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers.
This is why JTC has implemented a solution to train your users to not fall into this Social Engineer attacks. JTC’s Engineers play the role of hackers and send anonymous emails to your users looking 100 percent legit. and we can provide a full report upon completion. If your users click on it, they’re redirected to a website providing knowledge and education to avoid these missteps in the future. Want to see who needs more training? JTC can provide a full report upon completion on the simulated phishing campaign. With this information in hand, we can proceed to the proper training and education. JTC’s phishing campaigns have proved to help end users to be more careful and ensure network security at the end-user level.
Our campaigns show a prone percentage of roughly 40% of users clicking on malicious links and opening attachments from unknown senders. This prone percentage decreases drastically after training.