The shift to remote or hybrid work environments has necessitated a much greater security focus on digital safety and secure communications. In addition to ensuring that your employee’s devices are protected and your organization’s network information is secure when accessed from remote locations, the threat of employees falling victim to phishing or whaling attacks may be more likely when a majority of a company’s employees work remotely.
Whaling attacks are often thought of in the context of email security – where a threat actor is targeting an organization with a phishing email campaign to gain access to their high profile people. However, what most employees don’t realize is that before a whaling or phishing email ever reaches their inbox, there are foundational steps that must be taken, most notably, the creation of a lookalike or otherwise fraudulent domain. Since all email addresses require a root domain, addressing impersonating domains provides prevention measures before a whaling attack can even take place. There are a host of proactive domain monitoring techniques that organizations can leverage to safeguard their people and their sensitive information from falling victim to a phishing scheme...Read More!
