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I work at a large professional services firm (think Big 4), so the risk of any single breach in our network is taken pretty seriously. Our IT department added an Outlook plugin years ago that you can use to immediately reporting phishing attempts to them. As a bonus, they'll sometimes send these "tests" and if you select to "Report Phishing", you'll get a atta-boy type notification. I would assume at a macro level, they have stats on everyone and know who the "riskier" employees are. I have no idea if this is done inhouse at other large companies.

Sidenote/ question for you: some of the "test" attacks my company sends are very specific to the work we're doing and can sometimes sound very convincing. Do you have a catalogue of "attacks" based on industry or department (procurement might fall for something completely different than sales or marketing)? I'm sure with enough tests, you could measure the effectiveness of attacks (or maybe the difficulty of detection)... then you can start rating organizations not just based on what percentage of folks fell for it, but what specifically they fell for, or what was more likely to get them to bite. Almost like targeted training?

Cool idea overall and wish you guys the best.




1. I've talked with a lot of companies (Stripe for example) who do that internally and it takes a tremendous amount of time to set up.

2. For now attacks are very generic, but will soon be sector-based and department-based.

3. Yes for sure it's probably worth adapting the pace of the attacks depending on the level of the employees.

Thanks for the kind words!




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