Sophos Phish Threat

2017: Announcement

The Sophos company announced start of the Phish Threat platform intended for training of individual and corporate users to fight against phishing threats.

The platform representing "the phishing simulator" it was initially developed by consulting company Silent Break Security. In November, 2016 Sophos redeemed this platform from SBS.

Logo of Sophos company on the building of one of offices of the company

As the direct founder of Phish Threat Brady noted Bloksham (Brady Bloxham), several similar products are presented at the market at once, however their developers usually are not in time behind permanent development of a landscape of threats.

In this sphere all are just developers of trainings. As Sophos is vendor of security systems, we will be able to provide to users more complete perspective of security of the organizations now, - Bloksham noted.

According to him, Phish Threat will help users to begin to react more adequately over time to phishing threats though he also does not wait that the number of transitions according to phishing links will ever descend to zero. But their this platform will help to lower.

The vice president of Sophos Bill Lukkini noted that the simulator of phishing attacks will help to build "the culture of own security" at users that will provide them an additional insurance against cyberthreats.

In further Sophos is going to integrate more closely the Phish Threat system into the range of protective products and to use statistics collected with its help for improvement of other developments.^[1]

Training tools never happen an excess, - Dmitry Gvozdev, the CEO of Security reference monitor company says. – They help to realize more adequately the general situation with security and to counteract constantly changing threats. A phishing – one of the most problem areas in cyber security as the attacks are performed directly on people, on their psychology and habits. As a result, the efficiency of technical means is very relative. Nobody will protect users from a phishing better them, but it needs to study.

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