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Cybersecurity Training Programs Don’t Prevent Employees from Falling for Phishing Scams

Study involving 19,500 UC San Diego Health employees evaluated the effectiveness of two different types of cybersecurity training Cybersecurity training programs as implemented today by most large companies do little to reduce the risk that employees will fall for phishing scams–the practice of sending malicious emails posing as legitimate to get victims to share personal information, such as their social security numbers. That’s the conclusion of a study evaluating the effectiveness of two diff...

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