Simulated phishing program

[mowens]

For the last few years my company as been sending out simulated phishing emails. There is a button in outlook you push to report suspicious emails. They have been getting increasingly more sophisticated. I fell for one a few months ago. Today they announced a "training and progressive discipline" update to the program. If you get 2 or more failures in any  12 month period you are assigned additional training and possible disciplinary action.

Does anyone else have a similar program?

[SuperHoneyBadger]

Is the exercise to get you to catch them, or ignore them?
Never heard of that kind of program, but I'm at a small place.

[riverhunter]

Yes, but it was a while back at a defense company. 

[gcode]

Does anyone else have a similar program?

We have a similar program
There is mandatory training and phishing emails, though I haven't heard of mandatory discipline for chronic suckers

[mowens]

Is the exercise to get you to catch them, or ignore them?
Never heard of that kind of program, but I'm at a small place.

The goal is to not fall for them. If you click on what you are not supposed to, it gets recorded and tracked.

I did not expect the progressive discipline program.

[Smit]

We had the phishing training and an occasional simulated phishing emails. I'm not sure what happened if anybody responded to one. I usually just deleted them.

In the real world they are getting more sophisticated. Texts too.

I got an email from my cable company claiming they were going to charge me $700 the other day, and to click a link if I wanted to dispute it. The return email matched real emails from the company so if looked valid.

[Tim Johnson]

Everyone here had to study and take a phishing emails twenty question test. I think only two got all of the answers correct but it was sort of rigged. The final question was to pick the one out of four that was phishing. When I looked at the choices I considered all of them as phishing and picked all four which turned out to be the correct answer. 

[neurosis]

I haven't heard of mandatory discipline for chronic suckers

That's the best.  

[CNCAppsJames]

I report EVERYTHING I don'trecognize.  ESPECIALLY anything from the ChiComs.

And yes I am raycis against any and all companies from mainland China. 

#SelfReporting

 

[Rstewart]

Yeah, we get at least one a month.  I can spot them a mile away and report them as such.
You get an immediate reply saying something, something vigilance bs.

Open the link and I believe they execute you on the spot