Why do you need a multilayered approach?
A multilayered approach can help you defend against phishing while minimizing disruption to user productivity. This strategy provides several opportunities to detect and stop a phishing attempt before it causes significant harm. The mitigating measures provided are also helpful against different types of cyber threats. There are four different layer of mitigation in multilayered approach and these are given below:
- Layer 1: This Layer describes the security measures that can make it harder for attackers reach to user.
- Layer 2: This Layer explains how to help your employees identify phishing emails and how to enhance your reporting culture.
- Layer 3: Since it is impossible to prevent all attacks, this layer explains how to reduce the impact of phishing emails that reach your users and are clicked.
- Layer 4: Every company face security issues at some time, so make sure youâre prepared to notice them immediately and respond to them in a structured manner.
Phishing in Ethical Hacking
Phishing is one type of cyber attack.It is an unethical way to dupe the user or victim to click on harmful sites. The attacker crafts the harmful site in such a way that the victim feels it to be an authentic site, thus falling prey to it. The most common mode of phishing is by sending spam emails that appear to be authentic and thus, taking away all credentials from the victim. The main motive of the attacker behind phishing is to gain confidential information.