Today is Halloween.  On this day kids and adults alike masquerade and engage in merriment.  For children coming to your door, the greeting is “Trick Or Treat.”

There is another kind of masquerade that is taking place every day in cyberspace — spearphishing.  Instead of obscuring their identity for fun and games, spearphishers masquerade as trusted email senders.  When you open the email, there is no treat, only an evil trick.  For example, Quartz has confirmed that the Syrian Electronic Army used spearphishing to infiltrate the Obama inner circle and compromise the President’s twitter feed.

Spearphishers deceive people into making bad email decisions that compromise security. IT needs to help employees make better email processing decisions. That is where SP Guard comes into play. Using SP Guard, IT can determine a list of trusted senders and provide this information to staff in a simple and highly effective manner.

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