Employees are pretty good at spotting phishing emails

Although people are sometimes seen as a weak link in information security, a new report from F-Secure shows that a third of emails that employees report as suspicious are actually phishing. The finding comes from an analysis of emails reported by employees from organizations around the world, using F-Secure's mail reporting plugin for Office 365, during the first half of 2021. The most common reason given for reporting emails is a suspicious link, cited by 59 percent of users. 54 percent reported an email because of an incorrect or unexpected sender, and 37 percent because of suspected spam. 34 percent… [Continue Reading]