IT pros training CEOs to spot phishing attacks

Out of 300 IT professionals attending the Infosecurity Europe conference, almost half (49 percent) believe their CEO has fallen victim to a targeted phishing attack. The results have been published in a new paper by unified security management and crowd-sourced threat intelligence company, AlienVault. More than three quarters (82 percent) still worry their CEO might be vulnerable to such attacks, but many fail to educate their CEOs and help them spot them. Less than half (45 percent) are training everyone in their organization, including the CEO, to spot phishing attempts, 35 percent offer such training to "most employees", while 20… [Continue Reading]