Phishing Attack Solutions

Overview

You’ve likely seen a phishing email, whether it was security training or, unfortunately, the real deal. Because they look authentic, phishing attacks are relatively easy, inexpensive and successful for threat actors, making them the fourth most common cause of a malicious breach. It’s important to prevent phishing, protect the organization, and quickly remediate the effects of a breach.

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Benefits

Create incident response plans

Strengthen your organization’s preparedness and readiness to respond in the event of a phishing attack by creating and testing incident response plans.

Share threat intelligence

Remain alert about the latest threats and phishing attack tactics in your industry by sharing threat intelligence with partners and networks.

Use automation

Reduce the manual steps in the incident response process by invoking orchestration and automation at any step.

Solutions to protect against phishing

Incident response

Proactively manage and respond to phishing and other threats with the security tools, expertise and people of IBM Security X-Force®.

Security information and event management (SIEM)

Obtain centralized visibility to detect, investigate and respond to your most critical organization-wide cybersecurity threats with SIEM.

Ransomware prevention

Ransomware is a type of malware attack that holds your data hostage and demands payment to release it. Protect against initial infection vectors like phishing and prevent these kinds of attacks.

Fraud protection

Detect fraud and seamlessly authenticate users across the omnichannel customer journey with phishing and malware protection software.

Zero trust security

As environments expand, apply a zero-trust approach to managing privilege access to ensure that users are only granted access to data essential to their jobs.

Unified endpoint management (UEM)

Manage and secure essentially all your mobile devices, apps and content. Seamlessly integrate your current platforms and create a frictionless user experience.

Software

Phishing and malware protection software

Financial institutions are the most targeted of all industry sectors analyzed in the 2020 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index. IBM Security Trusteer® Rapport is an advanced endpoint protection solution designed to protect users from financial malware and phishing attacks.

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Analyst report

Gartner Research: Preparing for ransomware attacks

To minimize downtime and the impact to your brand, your security team needs a comprehensive strategy that encompasses security tools and processes across all the stages of an attack.

The attack pattern of a typical ransomware attack
Steps to defend and respond to a ransomware attack
Security tools and controls to consider

Prepare your response for ransomware attacks

Phishing prevention and detection with cybersecurity services

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Threat intelligence services

With high quality, prioritized, actionable threat intelligence extracted from real-time IBM security operations, investigations and research, understand the wider threat landscape to stay ahead of phishing, malware and other security attacks.

Threat management services

IBM Security’s end-to-end threat management services bring the NIST framework to life with an end-to-end, programmatic approach that integrates the capabilities of offensive services, managed security services, artificial intelligence, and incident response. Secure your operations and respond to cyber phishing with accuracy and speed.

Penetration testing

Phishing capitalizes on human behavior and emotional response. IBM X-Force Red offers social engineering engagements that include ruses attackers may use to dupe your employees into divulging sensitive information.

Resources

IBM uncovers global phishing campaign targeting the COVID-19 vaccine cold chain

A global campaign used spear-phishing emails to target the COVID-19 vaccine cold chain. Learn how to proactively defend against these threats.

Research exposes Iranian threat group operations

Iranian threat group ITG18 was associated with phishing attempts targeting the personal accounts of an Iranian-American philanthropist and officials of the U.S. State Department. Learn how a basic misconfiguration exposed their operations.

German task force for COVID-19 medical equipment targeted in phishing campaign

Threat actors targeted approximately 40 organizations in a precision-targeting phishing campaign exploiting the race to secure essential personal protective equipment. Learn more about the potential consequences of this attack.

Threat intelligence index

Get a better understanding of the current threat landscape. Download the report for data on cyber threat groups, top attack methods and most targeted industries.

Cost of a data breach

The average cost of a malicious data breach with phishing as the initial attack vector was about USD 4.3 million. Download the report for best practices on mitigating potential damages.

Ransomware explained

Ransomware is one of the most common threats facing organizations across industries and geographies. Stay up-to-date on news about this attack type that can sometimes be related to phishing.

Next steps

Incident response and threat intelligence services

Investigate attacks and minimize the damage with forensic analysis, malware analysis, threat assessments and more.

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SIEM solutions

Accelerate threat detection with advanced analytics such as user behavior analytics, network flow insights and artificial intelligence.

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SOAR solutions

Bolster incident response with security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) to quickly resolve damaging phishing attacks or malware infections in multiple endpoints.

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