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Any company that starts with the Phished platform often scores ‘high’ on the initial baseline measurement – up to 50% success rate. After one year, Phished manages to reduce this to less than 5%. How do we do that and why is it so efficient?

Since Bringme began using Phished simulations, the company has made clear progress. In recent simulations, the phishing rate averaged just 5%—a big improvement from where they started.

After an initial baseline measurement, IPCOS came to a remarkable conclusion: almost half of their highly trained employees were susceptible to phishing. Barely four months later, this figure was down to 13% - thanks to Phished.

To cybercriminals, your vendors can be an attractive backdoor into your organization—and unfortunately, it's happening more often than you might think. A seemingly trustworthy partner can unknowingly pave the way for phishing attacks, data breaches, or full-scale supply chain compromises in your company. With the rollout of the NIS2 directive, this threat is more pressing than ever: organizations now need to demonstrate not only their own cybersecurity maturity, but also that of their vendors. 

Getting hacked only happens to the ill-advised or the low-skilled? Cybersecurity specialist Arnout Van de Meulebroucke speaks from experience when he says: “It will happen to you.”

Organisations in the healthcare industry are not sufficiently prepared to deal with cyberattacks. Hospitals are at risk, but retirement homes are as well: phishing ails everyone.

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a surge of phishing attacks. In response, Fost Plus began looking for a solution to identify and strengthen the weak points in its cybersecurity strategy.

As a large and dynamic organization, the Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie (VRT), Belgium’s public broadcaster for the Flemish community, needed a scalable solution to build cyber resilience among its staff. Phished offers the flexibility VRT was looking for, making it easy to efficiently onboard not only permanent employees but also temporary staff and external consultants.

Hospitals and healthcare institutions are increasingly being targeted by large-scale cyberattacks. Against this background, the UZA joined forces with Phished, to guarantee cyber awareness training for all employees.

Taking a ‘people first’ approach and creating a strong cybersecurity culture in an organisation with thorough cybersecurity awareness, training, and education prevents human errors and leads to a robust defence.

Partly due to the COVID-19 crisis, cybersecurity has become a key topic at the highest levels of AZ Jan Portaels. Yet, a baseline assessment revealed that hospital staff still needed support in this area. That’s where Phished comes in—helping the organization confidently move forward on its cybersecurity roadmap.

Phished offers businesses and (public) organisations the tools to train their employees in cybersecurity topics and to give them a greater awareness of the digital dangers. An important aspect of this is anti-phishing training.

The majority of successful phishing attacks happen due to human error. A company can arm itself and its employees against this in many ways. Cybersecurity awareness is indispensable for this.

The ISO 27001 standard provides proof that as a company you are taking the necessary steps to protect the data of your customers and your employees. What does it entail, what are the benefits, and what conditions do you need to meet to get ISO 27001 certificated? And how does Phished help you become compliant automatically?

Despite the world slowly moving back to normal, remote working is here to stay. Companies and employees alike have discovered the benefits of remote working, but is online working from home safe?

Even before your company is phished, you need to take action. What steps should you take and how can you prevent this from happening (again)? Phishing expert Arnout Van de Meulebroucke provides six tips.

Phished helps you build your own Human Firewall, but what does that mean, and why is it important?

What you (should) not do if you want your anti-phishing training to be a success

Executing an anti-phishing campaign within your company is the first step in making your employees more alert to cyber threats, but how do you execute this campaign exactly? A thoughtless anti-phishing training program can do more harm than good. It is therefore crucial to use the right strategies when training your employees to recognise phishing emails.

Why cyberattacks are not going anywhere

From indulgences to pyramid schemes: scams that prey on human tendencies have been around for ages. And they are here to stay.

Nico Cooman is a partner at The Security Factory, a Managed Services Provider that focuses on ethical hacking, pen testing and cybersecurity consultancy. In the past, the human factor also received attention, but today The Human Firewall is a much more central aspect of its offering.

Cybersecurity review platform Expert Insights awards Phished no less than two awards.

Kinepolis - a global brand in the cinema and film experience market - was faced with two major challenges: protecting thousands of employees and securing millions of pieces of customer data. The Phished platform tackled these challenges quickly and easily, with measurable results.

Carconnex, a major European B2B car importer, never expected to lose money in a cyberattack. When it did happen, it became clear why a premium service should go hand in hand with premium phishing training for their staff. They partnered with Phished, and results were immediate.

Smartphoto is an e-commerce company offering photo printing services across 12 European countries. Among the many emails processed daily by their customer service team, phishing attempts are a frequent threat – one of which unfortunately resulted in a successful ransomware attack in the past. This made a specialised Security Awareness Training essential for all 180 employees – a challenge easily handled by the Phished platform.

Cybersecurity training is only effective if employees can remember it. Unfortunately, this is rarely, if ever the case. Even 150 years later, 19th-century psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus can still explain why your employees will let hackers in if they are not structurally trained.

Phished takes over ConXioN’s workload and helps to upsell their service offering, while the partner frees up time and focus to nourish customer relationships and prove their value. Here is how we do it.

Behavioral Risk Score^TM predicts the likelihood of hacking due to human error

The ecologically inspired home store sought a way to train employees in cybersecurity while alleviating IT workload. Phished was the answer.

Is your cybersecurity strategy prepared to take on 2023? Every year brings new trends, threats, hypes and hoaxes. Let’s take a look at what you need to prepare for as soon as possible.

Just sending out phishing simulations is no guarantee for not getting hacked. Incident data confirms companies benefit much more from holistic training, teaching your co-workers to adopt an overall cyber security mindset. I’ll explain how this simple change in approach will impact your company’s cyber resilience.

Most cyber awareness platforms have content libraries which rival Encyclopaedia Brittanica in size: tutorials, articles, games and even Netflix-like video content... IT managers can simply pick out a lesson and send it to their co-workers. But data proves this approach doesn’t cause a reduction in cyber incidents. In this blog, I’ll explain why that is.

Once again, October is being celebrated as ‘Cybersecurity Awareness Month’, with various campaigns aiming to remind individuals, businesses, and organizations to take proactive steps to protect themselves from cyber threats. But we at Phished are not convinced.

For many people, Black Friday is the ultimate day to snatch the best bargains. Massive discounts on almost everything you can order online. But while you’re hunting for deals, hackers have their sights set on something else: your personal data and hard-earned cash. Before you know it, you’ve walked straight into their trap, and they’ve scored the ultimate deal—completely free.

With the holiday season approaching, millions of packages are shipped, delivered, and returned every day. Increasingly, these deliveries take place at the office. However, traditional package management at the reception desk is not always secure and often poses cyber risks.

Now that the NIS2 Directive is officially in effect, CISOs and IT managers are asking: What does our cybersecurity training need to include to comply with Art.20 and 21? This checklist helps you assess whether your organization meets the requirements—and how the Phished platform ensures full compliance. Implementing these measures in time helps avoid fines and limits potential management liability.