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3 Tips To Run The Best Phishing Tests In The World

July 3, 2020 By Craig Hays Leave a Comment

Reading Time: 3 minutes

If you want to run the best phishing simulation tests possible that actually make your people more risk-aware, do these three things.

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1. Make Phishing Tests Real

Make your phishing tests as real as possible. As the military maxim goes, ‘train as you fight, fight as you train’. While training for the D-Day landings, soldiers were instructed to make pretend gunshot sounds instead of pulling the trigger to conserve ammo (blanks still need casings) for the real event. When the real event came, soldiers would occasionally revert back to their training and shout ‘Bang, Bang!’ instead of pulling the trigger.

Don’t send those awful phishing emails that so many vendors push on you. Forget the Microsift and Goggle emails and logos. Don’t be afraid to use all of the official logos, style guides, and trademarks. Criminals don’t care about trademark infringement. When organised crime comes after your colleagues it will be branded like the real thing.

The best phishing tests use either real emails from real companies and replace the original links with phishing links or real, high-quality phishing emails sent by actual criminals and run the same scenarios that criminals are running for real.

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How to Run a Phishing Simulation Test

January 29, 2020 By Craig Hays Leave a Comment

Reading Time: 12 minutes

Running a successful phishing simulation campaign is difficult. This is how to test your employees to better prepare them for real attacks.

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Fishing Fleet image by Bernard Benedict Hemy

Following on from my last article on how to write phishing emails that work, this article outlines how to run a successful phishing simulation campaign. We do this to measure how employees respond to attacks from criminals, how effective our training is, and where we need to do more to help our employees stay safe online.

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