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current security tools and processes – such as reputation-based and relationship-graph technologies –
can no longer keep pace with many of these newest attack vectors.

Armed with stolen logins and passwords, the hackers can then penetrate an organization laterally. Once
a user’s credentials have been compromised, the threat can be devastating to an enterprise. The effects
may include the loss of critical business data, customer information, and intellectual property, resulting
in lawsuits, financial payouts, and reductions in shareholder value.
New phishing safeguards should be deployed wherever employees communicate today, whether for
personal or work reasons. This includes collaboration apps such as Outlook, Gmail, LinkedIn, WhatsApp,
Telegram, Slack, Microsoft Teams and more. To stay protected, organizations must move from traditional
practices and last-generation tools to a more modern security strategy.

The adoption of real-time, cloud-based AI phishing controls that can address all types of attacks will be
essential, along with multi-layered protections that preemptively hunt for threats and scan for breaches
in real-time. This is the only way for security teams to keep their remote workers protected from zero-day
threats across all potential attack vectors, including email, mobile, and web messaging apps.

About the Author

Patrick Harr, Chief Executive Officer, SlashNext. As CEO of
SlashNext, Patrick Harr directs a workforce of security
professionals focused on protecting people and
organizations from phishing anywhere. Before SlashNext,
Patrick was CEO of Panzura, which he transformed into a
SaaS company, grew ACV 400%, and led to successful

acquisition in 2020. He has held senior executive and GM
positions at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, VMware, BlueCoat
and was CEO of multiple security and storage start-ups,
including Nirvanix (acquired by Oracle), Preventsys
(acquired by McAfee), and Sanera (acquired by McDATA).

Patrick can be reached by email at patrick.harr@slashnext and on Twitter at @patrickharr and at our
company website https://www.slashnext.com/.

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