{"id":2891,"date":"2020-01-24T16:16:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T20:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/?p=2891"},"modified":"2020-06-04T16:13:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T20:13:46","slug":"nearly-90-percent-of-global-enterprises-targeted-by-phishing-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/nearly-90-percent-of-global-enterprises-targeted-by-phishing-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 90 Percent of Global Enterprises Targeted by Phishing Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2468\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/files\/2019\/03\/new-hacker-image-resize-compressed.jpg\" alt=\"Nearly 90 Percent of Global Enterprises Targeted by Phishing Attacks\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/files\/2019\/03\/new-hacker-image-resize-compressed.jpg 800w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/files\/2019\/03\/new-hacker-image-resize-compressed-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/files\/2019\/03\/new-hacker-image-resize-compressed-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/files\/2019\/03\/new-hacker-image-resize-compressed-540x270.jpg 540w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/files\/2019\/03\/new-hacker-image-resize-compressed-162x81.jpg 162w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/files\/2019\/03\/new-hacker-image-resize-compressed-360x180.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recently, cybersecurity solutions provider Proofpoint released the results of a major survey: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.proofpoint.com\/us\/resources\/threat-reports\/state-of-phish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 2020 State of the Phish Report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. This study reveals 88 percent of global organizations suffered attacks by business email compromise and spear-phishing attacks in 2019. Therefore, the 2020 State of the Phish Report uncovers the risks facing individual end-users.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"widget\"><div class=\"aside-card\">\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/security-information-event-management-vendor-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1682\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/files\/2020\/02\/SIEM_VM_SB.jpg\" alt=\"Download Link to SIEM Vendor Map\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other key findings from the Proofpoint 2020 State of Phish Report include:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">More than half\u201455 percent\u2014of surveyed organizations dealt with at least one <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">successful <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">phishing attack in 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additionally, IT security professionals reported a high frequency of social engineering attempts across a range of methods.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Besides spear-phishing and business email compromise attacks, 84 percent encountered SMS\/text messaging phishing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">83 percent encountered voice phishing.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">81 percent malicious USB drops.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In other words, enterprises are still vulnerable to phishing attacks and their diverse iterations and evolutions. Moreover, Proofpoint discovered 65 percent of surveyed professionals said their organization experienced ransomware infection in 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, there seems to be good news; 78 percent also reported that security awareness training activities resulted in reductions in phishing targets.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>The 2020 State of the Phish Report in Context\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Joe Ferrara, senior vice president and general manager of Security Awareness Training for Proofpoint, gave a statement with the findings. \u201cEffective security awareness training must focus on the issues and behaviors that matter most to an organization\u2019s mission.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe recommend taking a people-centric approach to cybersecurity by blending organization-wide awareness training initiatives with targeted, threat-driven education. The goal is to empower users to recognize and report attacks.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Critically, enterprises must recognize that phishing attacks don\u2019t always target users\u2019 credentials. They can also plant dwelling threats into the network without triggering normal digital perimeter protections.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can read the full <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.proofpoint.com\/us\/resources\/threat-reports\/state-of-phish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 2020 State of the Phish Report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from Proofpoint here. Also, you can get more information from the <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/siem-buyers-guide-security-information-and-event-management\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SIEM Buyer\u2019s Guide<\/a>. We cover the top providers and their key capabilities in detail.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>Widget not in any sidebars<br \/><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, cybersecurity solutions provider Proofpoint released the results of a major survey: The 2020 State of the Phish Report. This study reveals 88 percent of global organizations suffered attacks by business email compromise and spear-phishing attacks in 2019. 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