Re: Self-Phishing - Pre Launch Messages

[Eric Weakland <eric () AMERICAN EDU>]

James,

We started out telling people exactly – down to the Date and exact time when we would start the campaign.  Then just 
the day.  Then “latter half of the week.”  Then “this week.”  Then “this month.”

Now we’re down to notifying that it would happen throughout the semester.  Notifying in Fall and after Winter break.  I 
think “boiling the frog” is a good strategy here.  We haven’t had many complaints, but a word of advice – be careful 
using some of the phishing templates that vendors have that use a scare tactic saying “A hacker stole your password” – 
this prompted some faculty anger when they fell for it and reset all their passwords and had to deal with the pain of 
that.

Hope this helps,

Eric Weakland, CISSP, CISM, CRISC
Director, Information Security
Office of Information Technology
American University
eric at american.edu
202.885.2241

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Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 11:19 AM
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Subject: [SECURITY] Self-Phishing - Pre Launch Messages


We are exploring self-phishing options with our faculty staff and possible students.   We want to provide notification 
to the users about the program before we send any actual phishing messages.  We are thinking that notifications should 
be mentioned at orientation with an annual email reminder.

How often do you notify your users about the self-phishing program?

Can anyone share examples of campus notifications sent out prior to implementing this type of program?

James Farr ’05 G’12

Director of Information Security

Utica College

jfarr () utica edu<mailto:jfarr () utica edu>

315-223-2386