How to Avoid Phishing

Phishing Training
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Phishing Training
Training topic: How to avoid phishing.
Phishing entails sending messages that appear similar to those from a legitimate website or company. If the user does not recognize that the email is fake, he or she clicks the link and is being redirected to a fake website that prompts the person to enter personal information (Sumner & Yuan, 2019).
These are the things to include in the training session:
What is phishing?
How to identify phishing messages.
Signs of phishing emails and messages.
Social engineering.
How social engineering can facilitate to phishing.
What to do if one suspects phishing attempts.
How to check hyperlinks to differentiate fake from genuine websites.
The typical signs of a fraudulent or phishing email that will be covered during the training include:
A mismatch of email domain and addresses.
Urgency (Email requiring the receiver to act now or another immediate action).
Unfamiliar greetings,
Unusual c...