Phishing Awareness Quick Start

This guide outlines essential actions your team can take to spot and avoid phishing emails. Use this as a kickoff point for stronger email security practices in your organisation.

🚩 Common Red Flags

• Urgent tone or threat of consequences
• Suspicious sender addresses or mismatched domains
• Unexpected attachments or shared links
• Requests for passwords, banking info, or login credentials
• Typos and awkward language

🎯 Best Practices

• Always hover over links to preview the destination
• Report suspicious messages to your IT support team
• Use multi-factor authentication everywhere possible
• Keep your antivirus and OS up to date
• Bookmark commonly used login pages instead of clicking links

👨‍🏫 Team Training

• Include phishing drills in your onboarding
• Run quarterly awareness refreshers
• Make reporting easy and confidential