Highly targeted phishing attacks, known as Business Email Compromise or CEO fraud scams have exceeded $12.5 billion in total known losses worldwide (according to the FBI). These social engineering attacks are used by the bad guys to impersonate your CEO, CFO, or even third-party organizations you work with.
They convince your users, often in Accounting, HR, or even IT into making wire transfers or other sensitive transactions because they “own” the keys to the kingdom. In fact, many pretexting email attacks do not involve any link. These attacks are clever because they bypass your traditional approaches to email security.
Our Phishing Reply Test is a web-based tool that cybersecurity professionals can use to test employees on these common scenarios for targeted attacks used by cybercriminals. You can select and send an email template to users under the guise of a trusted sender within the organization and phish for a response. This tool provides insight into how many users in your organization will fall for this type of phishing scenario so that proper training can be administered to help prevent an actual phishing attack.
“At KnowBe4, it’s our goal to make the jobs of cybersecurity professionals easier by providing them with tools to help better train their users,” said Stu Sjouwerman, CEO, KnowBe4. “Our new Phishing Reply Test tool will help educate users on the importance of always verifying requests for sensitive and/or confidential information before hitting the reply button.”
Here's how it works:
