3 Ways Attack-Based Phish Testing is Failing Us
Attack-based phish testing creates fear, anxiety, and doubt in end users. It does not create awareness, harms IT, and misinforms management. Despite representing a billion dollar industry, traditional attack-based phish testing is fundamentally flawed. It causes untold problems for IT departments, individual users, and and Managed Service Providers. Studies have shown it can even lead to more clicks by end users! This article outlines the fundamental flaws in attack-based phishing. It goes on to outline improvements from educational, positive outcome phish testing assignments that teach users how to finally spot every phishing attack and delete or avoid it.
