Phishing: A Primer on How to Protect Your Organization

This report provides an overview of phishing threats—covering email phishing, smishing, vishing, spear phishing, whaling, baiting, and angler phishing—summarizes prevalence and impact statistics, outlines common signs of phishing messages and attacker tactics, and recommends mitigations such as security awareness training, phishing simulations, email security, MFA, and continuous monitoring.