Webinar: The Evolution of Phishing & How We Fight It
Beyond the Nigerian Prince
In 2017, the FBI estimated that losses due to business email compromise increased by 88% as compared to 2016. Yet many end users still associate phishing with the prototypical email from Nigeria.
In this webinar, dmarcian CEO Tim Draegen and GreatHorn CEO Kevin O’Brien will walk through the history of phishing attacks – from the early days of the widespread Nigerian prince schemes to today’s sophisticated and highly targeted spear phishing threats.
We’ll explore how we keep our philosophical approach current to these threats as they’ve changed, and discuss how the technology we use has evolved to keep up. Finally, we’ll highlight the multi-dimensional approach that organizations should be considering to combat phishing and how they work together – including authentication frameworks, relationship graphs, machine learning, and more.
You’ll leave the webinar with an understanding of:
- Today’s most pernicious threats
- The pros and cons of legacy tools
- New approaches to addressing these threats
“Previous approaches to defend against phishing have focused on website security and firewall / perimeter based defenses. An effective approach to phishing isn’t about a new and better mousetrap, but incorporating better business processes to deal with the changing environment and ensuring that individuals have better tools and training.
Instead of treating complicated things that engage in various relationships like they’re static assets to be protected, this new approach focuses on how people behave within their organization, and how organizations operate online (beyond their industry). An effective response to phishing builds on the previous approach, and recognizes the dynamic nature of people and the fact that organizations interact online far beyond their own walls.” – Tim Draegen, CEO dmarcian
GreatHorn: Beyond The Nigerian Prince Part 1
Part 2 in the Series- Webinar: A How-To Guide to Modernizing Your Phishing Defenses
Part 2 in the Series: Beyond the Nigerian Prince
In our last webinar, we discussed how phishing protection is a shared responsibility between the industry as a whole, organizations and their security teams, and the individual end user.
In the 2nd webinar of our 3-part series, dmarcian CEO Tim Draegen and GreatHorn CEO Kevin O’Brien discuss the phishing defenses of an ideal organization and talk about how to address the “danger zones” that represent the most underserved or misunderstood areas of phishing defense.
We provide an action plan for:
- Assessing your email security strategy and identifying areas of weakness
- Deploying a continuous improvement model for email security
- Developing a trusted online presence
