{"id":7994,"date":"2023-03-30T11:19:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T09:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ensec.ch\/security-awareness-vorsicht-haken\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T09:17:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T08:17:21","slug":"security-awareness-watch-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ensec.ch\/en\/security-awareness-watch-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Security awareness &#8211; watch out for hooks!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The human factor is still the most tempting attack vector for cyber criminals. Unfortunately, most companies are still neglecting this weak point. There was also a significant increase in phishing attacks worldwide in 2022 compared to the previous year.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Cyber criminals operate at all levels and outwit their victims with carefully prepared social engineering attacks. Companies in all sectors should consider strengthening their employees&#8217; defences against attacks. This is the only way to recognise, ward off and report suspicious incidents before it is too late or systems are compromised.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verizon.com\/business\/resources\/reports\/dbir\/2022\/summary-of-findings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Verizon&#8217;s Data Breach Investigation Report 2022<\/a>, the human factor plays a role in 82% of all security incidents.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Security leaders who continue to invest only in new technologies and security orchestration may be overlooking a proven best practice for threat defence: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ensec.ch\/en\/it-security-beratung\/security-awareness\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"7874\">security awareness training<\/a> combined with regular social engineering simulations. This approach not only raises staff awareness of the threat of cybercrime, but also lays the foundations for a robust security culture throughout the organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ensec offers you various possibilities to strengthen awareness in your company. Contact us for a non-binding consultation or read more under the heading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ensec.ch\/it-security-services\/managed-security-services\/\">Managed Security Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The human factor is still the most tempting attack vector for cyber criminals. Unfortunately, most companies are still neglecting this weak point. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[107,110,111],"class_list":["post-7994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot-topic-en","tag-managed-security-services-en","tag-phishing-en","tag-security-awareness-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7994"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8299,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994\/revisions\/8299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensec.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}