Defending Against Phishing – Preparing and Using Human Sensors

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Presented at CISOatlanta 2016 by

Josh Nicholson

As the security industry has continued to underinvest in the human element of security, phishing has become the top attack vector for cyber criminals. Breaches continue to occur in record numbers, identification takes an exorbitantly long time, and the most preferred targets are an organization’s human assets. Empowering employees to provide vetted intelligence into your incident response teams is often overlooked. Every organization has these human sensors, and there’s a natural desire for these employees to want to help. In this presentation, Josh Nicholson discusses how to reduce susceptibility to human-targeted attacks and empower users to be human sensors.