Proofpoint recently posted its Ten Most Dangerous – Discover the Top Ten Advanced Threats Impacting Business Today.

Number 1 was the media spearphish attack which compromised the Associated Press Twitter account, causing $150 billion in stock market decline.

Proofpoint shows us spearphishing’s devastating effectiveness:

 

This is like an email marketing conversion funnel, only this conversion funnel is evil.  By reducing the 70% open rate of this funnel, the downstream damage can be mitigated.  How can this conversion rate be reduced?  By reducing the power of deception used in these attacks.  In the AP case, the victim thought the malicious email was from a colleague.

IT needs to help employees make better email processing decisions. That is where SP Guard comes into play. Using SP Guard, IT can determine a list of trusted senders and provide this information to staff in a simple and highly effective manner.

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