SE-T-02Level 1 · Signal
Real phishing delivered to inbox
- Threat
- Neutral
- Level 1 · Signal
A threat signal from the email security layer: a real phishing message passed the filters and reached the person's inbox.
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.CM-01
- MITRE ATT&CK
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- T1566
The definition, in detail
Definition
The lure sat one click away from the person, so the exposure is live.
Example
A recruiter finds a fake shared-document notice in her inbox on Monday morning; the gateway flagged it only after a colleague reported the same message.
How it is measured
- Source
- Email security
- Subject
- Person
- Event
- phishing.real.delivered
- Risk domain
- Social engineering
- Provenance
- Verizon DBIR, Framework research
How it is used
Programs count "Real phishing delivered to inbox" per person from Email security and read it beside the other Social engineering signals; it feeds 0 cohorts, 1 sequence and 3 breach scenarios.
A "real phishing delivered to inbox" 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
"Real phishing delivered to inbox" (SE-T-02), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/signals/se-t-02-real-phishing-delivered-to-inbox
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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.