What are Email Phishing Simulations?
Email Phishing Simulations are controlled tests designed to train employees in identifying and responding to phishing attempts. Businesses send mock phishing emails to staff, mimicking real-world cyber attacks, to evaluate how employees ideal with suspicious messages. The idea is to do this so the emplyees are unaware, ensuring their reactions are natural.
These simulations help pinpoint vulnerabilities, reinforce awareness of phishing tactics, and educate employees on recognising email red flags, such as urgent requests, suspicious links, or fake sender addresses pretending to be colleagues or suppliers.
Regular simulations can help to improve overall cyber security throughout your business by creating an employee culture of being vigilant on a more day-to-day basis.
How do you know if your staff will do the right thing with a phishing email?
With our email phishing tools, the education side is taken care of with video training and a quiz test.
Authentic-looking pseudo-phishing emails will be sent to your staff. You’ll be able to see who clicked through and how much information they gave up to the ‘hack’. It’ll be a powerful reminder, when they find out what happened.
Accountable and Demonstrable
One of the most common points of entry for hackers is still through deceptive messages and websites.
Imagine being able to demonstrate to the board, the shareholders, your insurers – even yourself – that you had not just trained your staff in phishing awareness, but you had test data to prove their behaviour.
With our phishing tools, if anyone doesn’t participate in the training, you’ll know. If anyone is fooled by the phishing tests, you now have the chance to talk to them or conduct extra training.
How do Email Phishing Simulations Work?
The simulation tracks who has clicked and engaged with the email and who has ignored it.
Automated email phishing simulations send out emails in the style of a real attacker to test your employees’ knowledge to find out how they would react in a real-life phishing attack. The simulation tracks who has clicked and engaged with the email and who has ignored it.
Scheduled campaigns can include personalised messages to fit each department, making employees aware of the latest attacks that they could potentially face in a real situation.
Real attacks are designed to fool employees and put your business at risk, so employee training is essential to your business for the security and protection of sensitive data. Employee training is proven to reduce company vulnerability to attacks through employee interactions with malicious emails.
To discover how dark web monitoring, reporting and employee phishing training could help protect your business from cyber threats get in touch with us today.
The Managed IT Service Advantage
Nexus can configure your phishing service and manage it on an ongoing basis, as a managed service.
You can be confident that the initial set-up is assured correct, without having to learn anything new.
After that, we’ll liaise on the training, testing and results.
We’ll do this as an add-on to one of our core managed services:
Email Phishing FAQs
Find the answers to some of your email phishing questions below:
Are email phishing templates available?
We’ll work closely with your in-house team to develope specific email templates designed to replicate key contacts or suppliers that will form the basis of an email phishing templates. These templates will be created to look identical to a non-spam email with the idea being that the pose more of a challenge for employees to identify. This in turn will strengthen the future knowledge of employees to be able to identify threats.
How often should email phishing simulations be carried out?
This often depends on your business, the industry you work in and the existing knowledge your employees have when it comes to identifying phishing emails. We typically recommend carrying out email phishing simulations on a monthly basis.
Can I include email phishing simluations into a cyber security package?
Absolutely! We can create a tailored cyber security package that includes email phishing simulations to ensure that we cover every possible route of access for digitasl threats. If you want to find out more about building a cyber security package for your business, get in touch with our expert team.
