Many of the cybersecurity threats prevalent today such as oversharing on social media, unsafe use of Wi-Fi, and company confidential data exposure contributes to the ever-growing problem of phishing.

Pittsburgh-based cybersecurity firm Wombat Security Technologies' Beyond the Phish Report, analyzed nearly 20 million questions and answers from their survey for this report. The report delved into how well end users are able to identify and manage security threats within an enterprise.

News and headlines, as well as numerous studies, have proven that phishing attacks are on the rise, and Wombat said its survey of security professionals showed the same. The threat of phishing attacks is real. In the last year, the list of organizational phishing victims increased by 13% to 85%, and 60% of enterprises said the phishing attack rate increased overall.

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