News brief: Email scams highlight need for employee vigilance

A workday for many employees involves sorting through a seemingly endless flow of emails and meeting invitations. Some are important. Some are not. Some are downright dangerous.

As this week's featured news shows, bad actors won't let up on inserting phishing attempts or prompt injections into those routine messages and invitations. An occasional visit to an email account's spam folder is a good reminder that cyberdefense tools filter out many malicious messages -- but not all of them. The last line of defense is often the judgment of the recipient.

Knowing how to spot phishing attempts is the foundation of most cybersecurity awareness training programs. It's also what organizations use to build a strong cybersecurity culture.

While there's debate about the effectiveness of awareness training, it's impossible to overstate the importance of an individual employee's vigilance. That in-the-moment decision to click or not matters ...