To help companies better understand the importance of spear phishing penetration testing and the valuable education opportunities they provide an organization, PhishMe is hosting a webinar on July 7, 2011, Spear Phishing Pentests: A Wasted Opportunity. As PhishMe co-founder and CTO, I will be conducting the webinar and drawing on my years of experience to address the misconceptions of ethical-hacking focused penetration testing, while outlining the best practices for conducting and assessing mock spear phishing attacks.



At PhishMe we focus on educating users on the best ways to protect themselves from the latest scams – helping them understand that regardless of how good an anti-virus solution or firewall is, phishing attacks are designed to get around them. Online criminals understand that the best way into a network is to get invited in, not scanning thousands of ports hoping for a crack in the armor. With nearly 2 million users trained, we have proven that proper use of mock phishing and targeted education campaigns can reduce an employee’s susceptibility to an attack by over 80percent. This number increases even further with continued training.

If you are an organization who is thinking about performing a spear phishing penetration test, join me on July 7, 2011 to learn just how easily you can ensure your organization’s safety against the growing threat of spear phishing attacks. To register for the free webinar, please click here: Spear Phishing Pentests: A Wasted Opportunity.

Kindly,

Aaron Higbee, Co-Founder and CTO, PhishMe

From now on, posts about general infosec, mobile security, and our consulting practice will be kept at http://intrepidusgroup.com/insight

This blog, when we resurrect it, will stick to phishing related posts.

Some other new additions include:

An Intrepidus Group managed delicious bookmark feed: http://delicious.com/intrepidusgroup

A PhishMe youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/phishme

A PhishMe Twitter account: http://twitter.com/phishme

A IntrepidusGroup Twitter account: http://twitter.com/intrepidusgroup

That’s it for now! Sorry about the long lapse in posts here… but I promise you, PhishMe has been busy.  We’ve helped organizations send over 1 million phishing training emails to date. Whew!

Aaron Higbee

CTO

We will use this blog to comment on topics like cool phishing ploys, IM and its privacy implications, hacking cars, and bashing on (or bowing to) the latest application hacks. Security geeks and a love of technology go hand in hand so expect some commentary on general tech too.

We plan to post here at least once a week, so keep us on that RSS radar or keep visiting!

Thanks,

The Intrepidus Group Team

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