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Are over-confident employees to blame for phishing success?

Posted on January 13, 2017January 13, 2017 By Davey Winder

Is security awareness training producing overconfident employees that are more of an actual threat than untrained ones? Davey Winder investigates…

According to Jingguo Wang, a University of Texas Arlington associate professor in the College of Business’ Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, business folk are overconfident with regards to their ability to spot phishing attacks.

SC Media has been finding out if security industry agrees that staff may be getting trained to miss, rather than spot, threats.

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Analysis, Phishing Tags:Business, crime, Employees, Research, Spam, Testing

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