
Ultimate guide to phishing prevention
How to protect yourself, your workforce, your business, and your customers

What is phishing
Sixty-eight percent of all data breaches involve the human element, such as human error or a person falling victim to a social engineering attack, according to the Verizon 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report. An attacker doesn’t need a zero-day vulnerability to break into your systems. The most powerful tool in their arsenal is simple trickery.
Phishing was the second-most common cause of data breaches. This term describes how an attacker can gain information or access by impersonating a third party: like a colleague, business, government agency, friend, or relative.
We’ve lived with phishing — a type of social engineering — since the earliest days of the internet. But in recent years, attackers have grown more sophisticated, using new methods and tactics to accomplish their goals. And so, phishing is more dangerous than ever.
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