SE-T-01Level 1 · Signal
Targeted by real phishing
- Threat
- Neutral
- Level 1 · Signal
A threat signal from the email security layer: a person was the addressee of at least one real phishing message in the last 90 days, whether it was blocked or delivered.
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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- ID.RA-03
- MITRE ATT&CK
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- T1566
The definition, in detail
Definition
It shows who attackers are choosing.
Example
An accounts-payable clerk is named on four blocked invoice-themed phishing messages in one month, more than anyone else in finance.
How it is measured
- Source
- Email security
- Subject
- Person
- Event
- phishing.real.targeted
- Risk domain
- Social engineering
- Provenance
- Verizon DBIR, Forrester, Framework research
How it is used
Programs count "Targeted by real phishing" per person from Email security and read it beside the other Social engineering signals; it feeds 3 cohorts, 0 sequences and 3 breach scenarios.
A "targeted by real phishing" record is evidence of what reaches the person (the threat side of the model). It says nothing on its own about what the person did.
Technical mappings
Framework mappings; validate for your use case.
Continue exploring
"Targeted by real phishing" (SE-T-01), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/signals/se-t-01-targeted-by-real-phishing
Part of the open HRM Taxonomy, CC BY 4.0. Download the taxonomy as JSON · Version history. This page describes one signal.
The initial assessment
Find your level.Then fix what matters.
18 questions, about 4 minutes and nothing to type before the result: your level, a score for each practice and three first playbooks, each Easy, Medium or Hard.