Defending Your Organization Against Phishing Attacks Is Not Easy
Regardless of how often you warn users about hastily clicking on links and opening email attachments that seem suspicious, time and again, phishing attacks are successful.
Volume
Today’s attackers are adept in using tools that help them automate their attacks, carrying out thousands of phishing attacks daily. They only need one to work.
Low and Slow
When a phishing attack is successful, the user, and the security team, may not be aware it happened for days, weeks, or even months. Attackers are keen to move low and slow when appropriate if it helps them achieve their goals.
Automation Shortcomings
If security teams can identify a phishing attack, they must take consistent response actions quickly. Unfortunately, without the right technology, responses will be manual and slower.
How to Defend Against Phishing Attacks
A multi-layer security approach gives your team the best chance to quickly detect and mitigate compromised credentials.
Endpoint
Protection
Endpoint protection is required no matter the attack type. However, when it comes to phishing attacks, where the attacker attempts to lure a user to inadvertently grant access to the network, monitoring endpoints for suspicious activity is a must.
Email
Protection
Since phishing attacks typically occur via email, deploying a solid email protection product is a must-have to give security teams the ability to detect when users might be targets of an attacker's phishing attempts.
Network
Protection
99% of all attacks will traverse your network at some point. Network protection products like NDRs are great ways to detect if an attacker attempts to establish a foothold to carry out their attacks.
User & Entity Behavior
Analytics
While you gather data from endpoints and servers with your endpoint protection, the heavy lifting when identifying normal and abnormal behavior occurs in a User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) solution. Understanding normal is critical to identifying phishing attacks.
Security
Analytics
While the impact of phishing is evident once an attacker deploys the attack, there are opportunities to detect potential signs of a successful attack when actively monitoring and correlating user and entity behaviors and flagging suspicious activities.
Automated
Response
With the previous protection layers in place, you need a way to respond to a detected threat at scale quickly. Using an automated response product like a SOAR can be the difference between a localized phishing issue and a widespread breach.
How Stellar Cyber Can Help
Stellar Cyber delivers over 400 integrations out-of-the-box, including integrations to popular endpoint protection and email protection products you use. The choice of which of these products to use is up to you.
Stellar Cyber also provides network protection, UEBA, security analytics, and automated response capabilities to identify and mitigate phishing attacks across your environment.
Key Features
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Outcomes
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