{"id":52092,"date":"2015-11-17T22:53:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T22:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=52092"},"modified":"2015-11-17T22:53:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T22:53:26","slug":"free-phishing-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/free-phishing-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Phishing Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Free test to phish your own employees.–PC Pitstop<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

Free Phishing Test<\/h4>\n

By Stu Sjouwerman, for KnowBe4.com Security Awareness Training<\/p>\n

Over the last few years, thousands of organizations in the U.S have started to phish their own users. IT pros have realized that doing this is urgently needed as an additional security layer. Today, phishing your own users is just as important as having antivirus and a firewall.<\/p>\n

Why? If you don’t do it yourself, the bad guys will. <\/p>\n

The bad guys are business people too and their time is money. They go after the low hanging fruit; your users. Traditional once-a-year security awareness training just doesn\u2019t hack it anymore. Is there a patch for stupid? You’d be surprised. <\/p>\n

Well, phishing your own employees and finding out who the culprits are is a logical course of action. It’s a great assessment to find out the Phish-prone percentage of your organization, and usually higher than you thought. <\/p>\n

But it’s only the first step. Next you need to train those users, and who knew it could be that easy and effective. And third, you need to schedule frequent simulated phishing attacks. And who knew it would actually be fun. <\/p>\n

However, let’s start with that initial phishing security test at no cost. You’ll get excellent ammo for more IT security budget. Sign up here, no need to talk to anyone and you can immediately test 100 users, without paying a dime.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/info.knowbe4.com\/phishing-security-test<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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