How do I secure my endpoints against Phishing threats?
Cyber Protection Products
Phishing Attacks
With over 90% of cyber-attacks starting with a phishing email, combating phishing with only email security can be challenging. These types of cyberattacks aim to steal your information, such as login credentials, credit card numbers and bank details. This attack is also a starting point to other severe threats like ransomware. Hackers use social engineering techniques to lure you into clicking links or opening attachments and infiltrate your business systems.
Spear phishing is a type of phishing that targets specific individuals or organisations instead of a wide range of people. Attackers research their victims’ information and behaviour on social media and other sites to learn about their victims. Therefore, communications to the victims are customised and appear to be genuine.
What can you do to protect yourself from phishing attacks?
- Be wary of emails before rushing to click on links or attachments
- Beware of emails that need your immediate attention like urgent or do it now
- Do not click on enticing offers that are too good to be true
- Validate URL links before clicking on them by hovering over the link in the email itself
- Often found in phishing threats are misspelling and grammar mistakes
- Disregard and do not click on fake invoices that may seem real in emails messages
- Do not respond to requests that ask you to reset your password. Speak to your trusted IT team, if unsure.
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Visionspeed provides a range of Cybersecurity protection products designed to reduce the risk of being Cyber attacked. We also protect against other Cyber threats that combat specific Cyberattacks.
In the next section, we talk about Cisco Duo & Umbrella, and when these are combined, they provide strengthened protection that reduces threat surfaces against phishing attacks.
Phishing Protection with Cisco Duo & Umbrella
Cisco Umbrella – the first line of defence to protect on and off-network users against threats over the internet wherever users go.
Umbrella proactively blocks malicious internet requests before they reach a customer’s network or endpoints. Umbrella identifies and blocks threats in real-time because we have a global perspective of internet traffic data, seeing 180 billion daily DNS requests from 90 million daily active users. By enforcing security at the DNS layer, Umbrella provides the first line of defence against threats that can be deployed in just minutes.
We welcome your interest and offer trial use of this Cisco Umbrella protection service. Please get in touch, and we look forward to qualifying your multi-factor cybersecurity and your protection licensing requirements.
Cisco Duo – the second layer of protection to protect your accounts. This product secures access for worldwide use.
Lay the foundation for your zero-trust journey with multi-factor authentication (MFA), dynamic device trust, adaptive authentication and secure single sign-on for every user and device. Duo verifies the identity of all users before granting access to their corporate applications. With Duo’s two factor authentication, even if someone knows your password, unless they have your device – mobile phone, tablet, or Apple watch – Duo stops them in their tracks. Lay the foundation for your zero-trust journey with multi-factor authentication, dynamic device trust, adaptive authentication and secure single sign-on for every user and device.
We welcome your interest and offer trial use of this Cisco Duo 2FA protection service. Pairing Duo with Umbrella strengthens your security aginst phishing attacks. Please get in touch, and we look forward to qualifying your multi-factor cybersecurity and your protection licensing requirements.