Cyveillance and Wombat Security Technologies Team Up to Educate Organizations on Social Engineering Threats
Combination of Cyveillance’s Cyber Safety Awareness Training and Wombat’s PhishGuru Testing via Simulated Attacks Provides Unique Assessment and Education of Employees
FAIRFAX, Va., April 25, 2011 – Cyveillance, a world leader in cyber intelligence, today announced an agreement with Wombat Security Technologies, a leader in cyber security training and filtering technologies, to provide specialized training and testing of organizations on growing social engineering threats. The unique combination of Cyveillance’s Cyber Safety Awareness™ training and Wombat’s PhishGuru assessment and training service via simulated phishing attacks will allow employees at all levels of an organization to receive timely and targeted threat assessment education.
Users of the new testing and training offering will benefit first from the use of Wombat’s PhishGuru, testing employees through email campaigns targeted to get them to fall for mock phishing attacks. Once a user falls for a mock phishing email, for instance by clicking on a malicious link, a brief introduction to phishing, social engineering and how to protect yourself will be provided. At the conclusion of the email campaign, Cyveillance will provide full social engineering training to employees through its Cyber Safety Awareness training, in order to fully educate employees and executives on these kinds of attacks. Thanks to a software-as-a-service model, both Wombat’s PhishGuru and Cyveillance’s awareness training are easy to deploy and enable organizations to repeatedly assess and train their employees to maximize knowledge retention and continuously increase awareness and security.
“With the emergence of interactive online communication tools such as social networks, blogs, microblogs and more, it is imperative that every single employee of an organization is properly trained and educated on the risks of socially engineered attacks,” said James Brooks, Director of Product Management for Cyveillance. “Through regular testing and training, organizations can keep a higher level of security awareness which ultimately leads to fewer successful social engineering attacks and consequently fewer network incursions and loss of proprietary and confidential information. Cyveillance and Wombat make a unique team in combating the most widely used, and successful, social engineering attacks.”
In contrast to simple penetration testing solutions, PhishGuru is an online tool to assess and train employees with simulated phishing emails. It allows cyber security professionals to choose from a variety of customizable phishing email templates to craft mock phishing campaigns in a matter of minutes, assess employees’ cyber security readiness, and provide targeted training to those that need it most. For additional information on Wombat’s PhishGuru, please visit: http://www.wombatsecurity.com/phishguru.
“With the increase of phishing and spear phishing attacks making it past email filters, employee training is absolutely critical. PhishGuru’s assessment and training approach has been shown to create unique teachable moments that can be used not only to assess workforce readiness but also to prime users for effective training. The combination of PhishGuru and Cyber Safety Awareness provides organizations with a powerful set of tools to train their users and prevent future attacks.” said Dr. Norman Sadeh, Co-Founder and CEO of Wombat Security Technologies.
Though computer-based training (CBT), Cyveillance’s Cyber Safety Awareness gives all enterprise employees a behind-the-scenes look at the latest technologies and techniques powering today’s most devastating Internet scams — fraud, network breaches, identity theft, social engineering and loss of customer data. The course provides detailed best practices on how to safely navigate the Internet, increasing awareness and heightening each employee’s sense of responsibility. For additional information on Cyveillance’s Cyber Safety Awareness, please visit: http://www.cyveillance.com/web/solutions/enterprise/solutions/cyber-safety-awareness-training.php.
About Wombat Security Technologies
With millions of users across North America, Europe, and Asia, Wombat Security Technologies is a global leader in cyber security training and filtering technologies. Wombat’s products include the most comprehensive and most effective suite of anti-phishing training products available in the marketplace today, covering the many different facets of phishing and related attacks launched on employees and customers. Wombat’s dedicated anti-phishing filtering solutions have been shown to consistently best the most popular anti-spam filters when it comes to catching insidious phishing attacks, including zero-hour attacks. Wombat’s products have been licensed for use in sectors as diverse as finance, government, insurance and healthcare.
About Cyveillance
Cyveillance, a world leader in cyber intelligence, provides an intelligence-led approach to security. Through continuous, comprehensive Internet monitoring and sophisticated intelligence analysis, Cyveillance proactively identifies and eliminates threats to information, infrastructure, individuals and their interactions, enabling its customers to preserve their reputation, revenues, and customer trust. Cyveillance serves the Global 2000 and OEM Data Partners – protecting the majority of the Fortune 50, regional financial institutions nationwide, and more than 100 million global consumers through its partnerships with security and service providers that include Blue Coat, AOL and Microsoft. Cyveillance is a wholly owned subsidiary of QinetiQ North America. For more information, please visit www.cyveillance.com or http://www.qinetiq-na.com.
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