Systems and methods for protecting organizations against spear phishing attacks
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Oct 13, 2015
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Sep 17, 2015
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Apr 25, 2014
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Mar 12, 2014
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A computer-implemented method for protecting organizations against spear phishing attacks may include (1) searching a plurality of websites for user profiles belonging users who are affiliated with an organization and who have access to at least one privileged computing resource controlled by the organization, (2) retrieving, from the user profiles, personal information describing the users, (3) determining, based on the personal information, that a portion of the user profiles belongs to an individual user with access to the privileged computing resource, (4) identifying at least one phishing attack risk factor in the user profiles that belong to the individual user, and (5) assessing, based at least in part on the phishing attack risk factor, a risk of a phishing attack targeting the individual user to illegitimately gain access to the privileged computing resource. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
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