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11%

11% -- email phishing click through rate for employees in a US company (2020)

2020  · n=1,500  · Trend Micro

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11%
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2020
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employees in a US company
Sample Size
1,500
Geography
US
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https://www.trendmicro.com/de_de/research/20/i/are-employees-the-weakest-link-in-your-security-strat… ↗
Confidence: 20/100 Vintage: 2020 Channel: Common Crawl
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Are employees the weakest link in your security strategy?
Email is the number one threat vector. There’s no exception, even with a global pandemic. On the contrary: Covid-19 has been used as an appealing hook by cybercriminals. Data from Trend Micro Smart Protection Network shows that for the first five months of 2020, 92% of all the cyberthreats leveragin…
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employees in a US company: 11% email phishing click through rate. Source: Trend Micro (2020). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/trendmicro-employee-phishing-clicks-decrease
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