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How to Identify and Prevent Phishing Attacks

Written by Chris Bihary | 2/15/18 1:00 PM

“Garland Technology triumphs in highly-volatile and critical environments, allowing us to provide visibility into our customers information, and help enterprises take proactive action against cyber-attacks.”

There is a huge industry dedicated to phishing awareness and prevention, with an increased emergence of companies built on the concept of simulating phishing emails and tracking how employees respond. It’s a step forward in terms of educating users and combating cyber security threats, but there still remains the need to partner with companies that can provide an overall security strategy.

Promoting a Positive Security Culture


Phishing is a human problem, and building a meaningful security-aware culture requires buy in from everyone, not just the security team.  So as targeted phishing remains the primary cybersecurity threat to organizations, and the attacks come from all directions—email, web, and network, all it takes is one click, one message, or one network callback for a targeted attack to be successful.

[Want more on Identifying and Preventing Phishing Attacks? Check out the Infographic we put together with Area 1 Security.]

NetOps and SecOp teams have become bystanders to solutions that continue to miss the low volume, socially engineered, and highly-damaging phishing campaigns, but the teams remain vigilant in the goal to become active participants in the mission to identify how to stop phishing attacks across all traffic vectors.


Existing defenses struggle with highly-focused and sophisticated campaigns and users are constantly getting lured into taking phishing baits, leading to significant financial damage or data loss.

 

Maximum Reliability Grants Early-Stage Attack Warnings


Area 1 Security’s offerings work to identify phishing campaigns, attacker infrastructure, and attack delivery mechanisms during the earliest stages of an attack cycle, and they turn to Garland Technology to ensure maximum reliability and functionality for their globally-distributed sensors, massive scale web crawling, and comprehensive pre-attack analytics requirements.


Garland Technology has enabled Area 1 Security to maintain 100% reliability in the most extreme environments to include recent and large-scale security threats from humans, machine, and natural disasters alike. Thus complete functionality and comprehensive reliability at their global data centers were the largest determining factors helping their customers stay ahead of these looming cyber-attacks. 

Garland Technology’s reliability and power superiority levels for Area 1 Security customers extended even further into providing 100% accurate False Tolerance analysis, granting a proactive view into early stage targeted attacks, resulting in Area 1 Security customers being able to take quick action and respond to looming threats. While proactive patterns are critical, the ability for Area 1 Security’s global data centers to obtain and maintain 100% full power with the magnetic failover feature from Garland Technology TAPs, have yielded their only full-scale and 100% reliable network TAP solutions to date.

“After utilizing other similar TAPs, Garland Technology remains second-to-none delivering 100% reliability, pricing, and logistics at full scale.”

Area 1 Security continues to turn to Garland Technology for the speed of their global logistics, the unparalleled integration support, capacity planning, and modeling surrounding future deployments.