Tampa Bay, Fla. cybersecurity firm KnowBe4's phishing benchmark study of six million users revealed insurance, manufacturing, technology and not for profits led all other industries in falling for baseline tests.
All four showed a rate of about 30% and higher. Financial services, though not as high, showed 26.29% susceptibility to those same tests.
The study, drawn from a data set of more than six million users across nearly 11,000 organizations, anonymously tracked users by company size and industry at three points: a baseline phishing security test; results after 90 days of combined CBT and simulated phishing; and results after one year of combined CBT and phishing.
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