Re: Self-Phishing - Pre Launch Messages

[Valerie Vogel <vvogel () EDUCAUSE EDU>]

Greetings,
Here are two relevant resources developed by the community about phishing simulation programs and campaigns:

A blog post by Brad Judy about “Phishing Your Users”: https://er.educause.edu/blogs/2016/4/phishing-your-users

This document briefly explains the benefits and potential risks of deploying a phishing simulation program, and also 
includes a list of popular phishing simulation programs or tools to consider. 
https://library.educause.edu/resources/2016/4/phishing-simulation-programs

Thank you,
Valerie


Valerie Vogel Program Manager, Cybersecurity

EDUCAUSE
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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Self-Phishing - Pre Launch Messages

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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Subject: [SECURITY] Self-Phishing - Pre Launch Messages


We are exploring self-phishing options with our faculty staff andpossible students.   Wewant 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