Prepare every employee with phishing simulations & training

Even the best email gateways and security tools fail to catch 100% of the phishing emails targeting your employees and organization. This makes teaching your employees how to prevent phishing attacks vital.

Simulations go beyond phishing awareness training. A simulated phishing campaign allows you to not only test employees in the same environment where real phishing emails strike — their inbox — but it also lets you deliver training the moment the employee clicks a suspicious link to educate them in the teachable moment.

If an employee fails to recognize a simulated phishing email, clicks a link, opens an attachment or enters information on a spoofed domain, Infosec IQ automatically delivers training tailored to the event. This training is delivered immediately — in the teachable moment — to help the employee recognize suspicious emails and learn how to stop phishing attacks from impacting your organization.

Yes! Run a free Phishing Risk Test and send a simulated campaign to 100 employees. We’ll send you the results within 24 hours so you can learn your organization’s phish rate and see who took the bait.

Although new phishing scams appear nearly every week, we consistently see phishing attacks built around the following topics.

Shipment notifications
These emails typically spoof an online retailer such as Amazon or Walmart or a delivery company such as UPS. The phishing email informs the victim of a package arrival, baiting them to click a link or provide personal information to investigate the unknown delivery.

Taxes
Tax-related phishing scams occur throughout the year, but appear more frequently at the end of January when U.S. organizations provide employee W-2 forms and through April when taxes are due.

Banks and payments
Bank alerts and notifications from merchants and payment processors such as PayPal provide scammers an avenue to victims’ financial information. These scams frequently reference a fraudulent charge to trick victims into clicking a malicious link or providing personal information.

Internal and corporate communications
Business email compromise (BEC) attacks, spoofed messages from Human Resources and other corporate communication scams remain a common tactic for hackers to acquire credentials, employee records or even financial information.

Infosec IQ allows you to create your own phishing templates, copy real phishing scams your team encounters or customize any of the 1,000+ existing phishing using our drag-and-drop template editor. You can also customize or build your own phishing indicator training, spoofed domains, landing pages, education pages and more.

Yes. Many Infosec IQ simulated phishing templates contain fair use, brand logos to replicate authentic, in-the-wild phishing attacks. Phished learners are immediately redirected to an Infosec IQ education page to remove brand confusion and turn the interaction into an educational moment.

From a copyright point of view, including third party logos in simulated phishing emails constitutes fair use because the logos serve a new and transformative purpose. Using third party logos for security awareness and training purposes is not related to the sale of goods or services; therefore it does not undermine the copyright holder.

Infosec IQ includes over 300 international phishing templates, translated and localized for multinational teams.

Infosec IQ’s phishing simulator supports the following phishing attack types:

• Drive-by
• Data entry
• Business email compromise (BEC)
• Spearphishing
• Malware & malicious attachments
• USB

In addition to these attack types, Infosec IQ allows you to send from Phishy Domains, redirected clicks to spoofed landing pages and track email replies to see if employees share sensitive information.

Install the PhishNotify reporting plugin to allow employees to report suspicious emails to your team. Once installed, the PhishNotify reporting button appears in your employees’ inboxes, allowing them to report emails with a single click. Reported emails are sent to quarantine for your team to investigate and added to PhishHunter for automated analysis and sorting.

To start, make sure employees know how to report suspicious emails and what happens when they report both real phishing attacks and also simulated phishing emails. Solutions like Infosec IQ provide immediate feedback each time an employee reports an email by specifying whether the email was a simulated phish or potentially malicious.

Phishing training for employees helps highlight the importance of reporting emails, but you can also encourage employees to report suspicious emails by congratulating top reporters or providing incentives to encourage participation.