Dates and Times
24 October 2019
10:00 - 13:00
Event for
Location
Organiser
Australian Cyber Security Centre
Event about:
Spearphishing 101 Workshop
The Australian Cyber Security Centre are holding a Spearphishing 101 Workshop on Campus on Thursday 24th October from 10.00am – 1.00pm in 11B50. Spearphishing is a targeted method of stealing information by sending fraudulent messages. Cyber adversaries go to great lengths to make their messages look legitimate and from a trustworthy source, so that prospective victims are more likely to click on malicious links or download malicious attachments.
Executive Assistants and first points of contact are one of an organisation’s most important lines of defence. They are the gate keepers to decision makers and financial officers, and their decision when receiving an email containing a suspicious link or attachment can be the deciding factor to a company being compromised. Whilst technical measures cannot be overlooked, training and empowering individuals to identify, understand and appropriately respond to spearphishing emails is equally important.
Additional Information
The ACSC’s intelligence suggests that Executive Assistants, Personal Assistants and diary managers are among the most targeted personnel within an organisation, with spearphishing being the most commonly method used to target victims and gain access to networks to obtain sensitive information.
If you would like to be a part of this workshop, please email Sharon.DaSilva@canberra.edu.au with your full name and email address, and feel free to share this with other admin staff in your team.
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