SE-B-16Level 1 · Signal
Reports safe mail as suspicious
- Behavior
- Vigilant
- Level 1 · Signal
A vigilant behavior signal from email security: the person reported a message that turned out to be legitimate.
Classification
- Risk domain One of 9 areas of human risk, from social engineering to readiness and response. Every signal belongs to one.
- Evidence level
- Maturity practices One capability a program performs, scored on its own: See, Understand, Act, Prove, Govern and Culture.
- Leads to The kind of breach the evidence beneath it points toward, each anchored to a Verizon DBIR or VERIS pattern or an FBI IC3 category.
- NIST CSF 2.0
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- DE.AE-06
- MITRE ATT&CK
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- T1566
The definition, in detail
Definition
A false alarm shows an active reporting habit and tells the team where legitimate mail looks like phishing.
Example
A sales rep reports a real survey invitation from the HR vendor; the security team confirms it is safe and thanks him for checking.
How it is measured
- Source
- Email security
- Subject
- Person
- Event
- phishing.safe.reported
- Risk domain
- Social engineering
- Provenance
- Gartner, Framework research
How it is used
Programs count "Reports safe mail as suspicious" per person from Email security and read it beside the other Social engineering signals; it feeds 0 cohorts, 0 sequences and 1 breach scenario.
A "reports safe mail as suspicious" event is evidence of a protective behavior; a vigilant behavior at any step breaks a sequence. It is one event, and it does not cancel the risky signals the same person carries.
Technical mappings
Framework mappings; validate for your use case.
Library indicators
The detailed observations in the indicator library with the same risk domain, dimension and polarity as this signal.
- I.0006Enables phishing reporter buttons
- I.0007Reports suspected phishing or other suspicious emails to security for analysis
- I.0008Reports suspected phishing emails that are tagged as suspicious
- I.0009Reports real phishing emails
- I.0010Reports real phishing emails resulting in quarantine
- I.0011Reports legitimate emails as phishing emails
- I.0012Reports suspicious SMS messages
- I.0017Deletes phishing emails without opening
- I.0058Reports simulated phishing emails
- I.0059Forwards simulated phishing emails to security team
- I.0060Provides helpful feedback on simulated phishing emails
- I.0064Reports simulated SMS phishing messages
- I.0065Ignores or deletes simulated SMS phishing messages
- I.0068Denies simulated fraudulent MFA prompts and reports them
- I.0092Reports high confidence in phishing-related self assessments
- I.0097Fails phishing simulations less frequently over time
- I.0099Fails security simulations less frequently over time
- I.0130Reports phishing emails without clicking
- I.0136Hovers over links before clicking
Continue exploring
"Reports safe mail as suspicious" (SE-B-16), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/signals/se-b-16-reports-safe-mail-as-suspicious
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The initial assessment
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