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    Phishing Trends Recap of COVID-19 Related Phishing Schemes

    Stu Sjouwerman | Apr 7, 2020

    COVID-19-POST3Our Chief Evangelist Strategy Officer Perry Carpenter took a bit of time and summarized the crazy month of March 2020 looking at the exponential growth of COVID-19 themed phishing attacks.

    Here is his video which illustrates the urgent need to step your employees through new-school security awareness training the moment they start working from the house. 

     

    One thing to look at is the recent brand new graph we published showing the number of fresh COVID-19 phishing templates. It's excellent ammo to add to your budget request for immediate approval to train your employees against the current tsunami of social engineering attacks. 

    Topics: Social Engineering Phishing Security Awareness Training COVID-19

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    Stu Sjouwerman (pronounced “shower-man”) is the Founder and Executive Chairman of KnowBe4, Inc., which hosts the world’s most popular integrated security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, with over 54,000 organization customers and more than 50 million users. A serial entrepreneur and data security expert with 30 years in the IT industry, Stu was the co-founder of Inc. 500 company Sunbelt Software, a multiple award-winning anti-malware software company that was acquired in 2010.

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