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> These 300 users are essentially a threat to the company because they often click on anything they get per mail. I agree, but I have to mention as well that i
by zepearl 6y ago
> These 300 users are essentially a threat to the company because they often click on anything they get per mail.
I agree, but I have to mention as well that in general all teams (not only IT) got reductions of budgets and amount of employees and in the end everybody is very stressed most of the time, which in turn makes everybody pay less attention to what they're doing.
In my case (IT) last year I received an email with the title "ACTION REQUIRED" and I just blindly opened it and clicked on the link of the document which I was supposed to fill out, and (luckily) it was just a well-crafted internal test related to phishing (which then of course I failed => I then had to take an online course) - in my opinion the problem is that nowadays we're permanently under pressure to deliver/react/do stuff with very short lead times and it's therefore hard after a while not to start to unwillingly forget best practices related to security.
This year the company I'm working for has started as well to use quite often external companies (websites) to provide some services => doing that makes identifying phishing emails even more difficult for me.