Cyber Tip Tuesday - Users are unfortunately not as good at spotting phishing emails as they think they are, and that overconfidence can be dangerous

Welcome to this week's Black Arrow Cyber Tip Tuesday, this week Tony is talking about how many users are not as good at spotting phishing emails as they think they are, and how that overconfidence can be dangerous.

It has been proven that users are not as good at spotting phishing emails as they think they are, and as many as 1 in 4 users will fall for fairly basic phishing attacks.

Traditional training and awareness around phishing is not working and firms need to take a different approach.

One of the things firms should be doing is simulating phishing attacks against their own staff and this is something will be very pleased to help your organisation to do.

We can administer and run campaigns on your behalf, including providing reports you can deliver to your Boards.

For regulated financial service firms we know this is something that the GFSC are expecting firms to be doing on a regular basis, at least quarterly.