SAINT LOUIS, MO (KMOX) - Employees are getting phishing emails from their own companies. It's the latest way to train people to spot the real phishing emails from hackers.
"Whether it's real or whether it's in the simulated ones, we can all fall for this if it hits us at the right time," says Eric Kron, Security Awareness Advocate for software firm KnowB4. "We have to let people know that these phishing tests, the simulated tests, are not there to make you feel bad," Kron says no one should feel foolish if they click on a training email.
Instead he says you should consider it the lab work after the lesson. Hear KMOX Virtual Consumer Editor Megan Lynch's report on phishing training below.
He tells KMOX, in 2021, simulated phishing training from KnowB4 reduced the click rate on malicious links from 31% to less than 5% among a group of more than 6 million employees.
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