Forbes: 4 Formidable Cyberthreats Every Employee Should Know

“There is a subset of employees who are generally more cybersecurity aware and there are certain individuals who just don’t have the same kind of security common sense,” says Masha Sedova, vice president of human risk strategy at Mimecast.

In addition, not every employee is attacked at the same frequency. Certain employees are targeted more frequently, either because of their role or their access to proprietary information, Sedova says.

Consider these stats that Sedova shared at a conference earlier this year:

• Nearly twice as many managers are targeted by phishing than individual contributors.
• Managers receive more than twice as many phishing emails than individual contributors.
• Tenured employees get phished more frequently than new hires.