The overall ‘phish-prone percentage’ drops for most businesses.
Mid-sized organisations in the UK have been more vulnerable to phishing attempts over the past year.
According to research by KnowBe4, the overall ‘phish-prone percentage’ across all organisations dropped from 35.2% to 32.3%, but mid-sized organisations increase their vulnerability to attacks by two percent.
However, large organisations improved the most, dropping nearly 5% from 39.6% last year to 35.2% this year.
There has also been an improvement to the average baseline of vulnerability to phishing attacks, dropping from 5.8% of last year’s report to 4.3%.
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
