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Phishing prevention combines email security controls, user awareness training, and process safeguards to defend against credential theft and business email compromise.
Phishing prevention is the combination of technical controls, user awareness, and process safeguards that protect organizations from phishing attacks, which use deceptive communications (email, SMS, voice, social media) to trick recipients into revealing credentials, installing malware, or authorizing fraudulent transactions.
Phishing prevention operates in layers:
Email security controls:
User awareness:
Process controls:
Phishing is the initial access vector in 36% of breaches (Verizon DBIR 2024). Business email compromise (BEC) caused $2.9 billion in losses in 2023 (FBI IC3). Phishing bypasses technical controls by targeting human judgment.
Phishing prevention spans TID (detection of phishing campaigns), SPH (security awareness training), and IAT (phishing-resistant MFA).
Mission SPH-B03 (Security Awareness Program) builds the human layer defense. Mission SPH-D02 (Social Engineering Campaign) tests it. The combination of technical controls, trained users, and process verification creates defense in depth against phishing.
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Written by CDA Editorial
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