Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Cyber Security Solutions For Reducing Phishing

Solutions For Reducing Phishing :
  • Update the browser and OS up-to-date. 
  • Contact companies and directly ask and inform to them about fraudsters.
Technology:
  • Need to purchase threat intelligence services to secure the environment. 
  • Firewall is a device used to block the unwanted traffic. 
Detect Phishing:
  • Examine the message and where it come from good source. 
  • Check the salutations for Eg  instead of Walmart they will modify the name as walmart and send fraud email. 
Believable and convincing:
  • This is designed to cause emotional response. 
  • This can cause damage and reputation. 
  • Don’t over react to this type of emails. 
  • Sometimes internal security team in organisation should measures Phishing success by sending Phishing messages. 
Never take a bait:
Phishing is too dangerous and very believable and convincing to do identity theft don't try to respond.

Avoid security controls:
  • Attacker will register a domain 
  • Attacker will register a mail exchange record. 
  • Attacker will set up certificates on their site. 
Whaling message format:
  • Position of the recipient, each and every message to higher official needs to verified. 
  • May or may not contain payload. 
Spoofing:
  • Message will be often spoofed to appear to come from executive. 
  • Identity spoofing is mostly done by attacker. 
How to Reducing whaling:
Frequently check Mail server configuration, firewall, IPS, threat intelligence.

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