Report: 2023 Phishing By Industry Benchmarking
Find out how you are doing compared to your peers of similar size.
As a security leader, you’re faced with a tough choice.
Cyber threats continue to grow as criminals rely on the tried and tested attack methods while developing new, more sophisticated ways to infiltrate digital environments and minimize the effectiveness of your human defense layer.
However, there’s an often overlooked security layer that can significantly reduce your organization’s attack surface: New-school security awareness training.
Our 2023 Phishing By Industry Benchmarking study analyzed a data set of 12.5 million users across 35,681 organizations with over 32.1 million simulated phishing security tests. This report highlights employee Phish-prone™ Percentages by industry, revealing at-risk users that are susceptible to phishing or social engineering attacks. The research also reveals radical drops in careless clicking after 90 days and 12 months of new-school security awareness training.
You will learn more about:
- New phishing benchmark data for 19 industries and seven geographical regions
- Understanding who’s at risk and what you can do about it
- Actionable tips to create your “human firewall”
- The value of new-school security awareness training
Executive Takeaways
Security and risk management leaders need to understand that in order to favorably change overall security behaviors within their organizations, their programs must have:
- A clearly defined and communicated mandate
- A strong alignment with organizational security policies
- An active connection to overall security culture and human layer of security
- The full support of executives
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What is PhishER Plus?
PhishER Plus is powered by a new, unique KnowBe4 global threat feed. This triple-validated phishing threat feed automatically blocks phishing attacks before they make it into users’ inboxes using:
- 10+ million highly trained end-users and their PhishER Administrators
- PhishML, a unique AI-model trained on phishing emails that all other filters missed
- Human-curated threat intel by KnowBe4’s Threat Research Lab
PhishER Plus is available as a stand-alone product or as an upgrade option for current PhishER customers.
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