Year: 2018

Wasatch Security Awareness specializes in training your staff on how to recognize spear phishing attempts. We will create a customized spear phishing simulation utilizing the latest techniques employed my malicious attackers.  The previous 90 days, 3500 employees from various industries have gone through this customized spear phishing exercise with the latest results below. 36% of staff clicked on a link. 32% employees submitted a username and password. 3:00  minutes average time the first login credential was submitted. What will your companies numbers be? Contact Wasatch Security Awareness to set up…

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The following spear phishing information has been compiled over the last 90 days and involves the following industries along the Wasatch Front: Government Education Manufacturing Construction Health Care Finance/Banking Real Estate Mortgage/Title Law Wasatch Security Awareness has worked with the above industries in putting together a customized spear phishing simulation. This simulation is designed to test employees in the latest techniques used by the bad guys. 2500 Staff members 1100 (44%) employees clicked on a link inside the customized spear phishing simulation and exposed the company to potential malware e.g.…

Advances in hardware, software, and firewalls make it harder than ever to penetrate your company. Why spend time trying to knock that wall down? Taking the path of least resistance is human nature. We will opt for the easiest way with the same end result. Social engineering techniques revolve around your employees, and I don’t have to penetrate a firewall, hardware, software, etc. to get what I want. The path of least resistance. When employees can recognize social engineering they become a company’s strongest defender.

Social engineering is a powerful and the one of the easiest ways for bad actors to penetrate your business. The latest Verizon Wireless report indicated that Phishing and Pretexting was involved in 98% of cases they tracked. What is phishing? Phishing is a method usually through email that is designed to have your staff click on a link to (possibly download malware) or give up usernames and passwords. It is specifically designed to target your employees. What is pretexting? Pretexting is a made up situation. Say the bad guys send…