Have you ever been sent a mail from your bank requesting for your personal details? Yes you have. This is very common and most of us fall for this con game. Actually this is a phishing mail that is sent out by the cyber criminals with the intention of deceiving innocent people. These emails contain links or attachments that take you to a website which looks like your banks or any other financial institution but it is a fraud site. If you are not aware about phishing you will divulge your confidential information such as user names, passwords, credit card numbers etc. This information is then used by the criminals to access your bank accounts and other financial accounts and rob you.

The cyber criminals are targeting mostly bank customers and those associated with financial enterprises and recently the social networking members are the soft targets. Thus it is termed as enterprise spear phishing. If you have a business it is natural that there will be a lot of bank transactions. The criminals send these fraud mails to your enterprise with the intent to dupe your unsuspecting employees. Phishing activities are targeted at people rather than technology. That is why a majority of the times it is successful.

If the employees of your company are not aware of phishing risks your business can become an easy prey. Businesses become easy victims due to the fall rate and fail rate. Fall rate is the percentage that falls for the attack by visiting the fake websites. Fail rate is the percentage that fails in the attack and reveals confidential information on the fake websites. It is extremely important to ensure that all the people related with your business is aware of phishing attacks and have the knowledge and expertise to identify them and make them invalid.

A good way of ensuring high levels of awareness is the deployment of the automated anti-phishing software that provides effective solutions for protection against phishing. This software performs a mock phishing attack on the employees to check their alertness and reactions. It tracks the responses of the employees, makes an analysis of the phishing fall rate and fail rate prevalent in your organization and sends the responses to individual employees through personalized emails with suggestions to handle the situation more effectively.

The phishing fail rate and fall rate statistics provided by this tool helps you to understand the intensity of risk your business is exposed to. The solutions that are provided by the software helps increase the awareness about phishing throughout the business, and it equips the workforce to implement best protection strategies.