The most dangerous phishing campaigns aren’t just designed to fool employees.
Many are designed to exhaust the analysts investigating them.
When a phishing investigation takes 12 hours instead of five minutes, the outcome can shift from a contained incident to a breach.
For years, the cybersecurity industry has focused on the front door of phishing defense: employee training, email gateways that
The most dangerous phishing campaigns aren’t just designed to fool employees.
For years, the cybersecurity industry has focused on the front door of phishing defense: employee training, email gateways that filter known threats, and reporting programs that encourage users to flag suspicious messages.
Far less attention has been paid to what happens after a report is filed, and how attackers exploit the investigation process that follows.
Alert fatigue in Security Operations Centers isn't just an operational inconvenience .
SOC teams increasingly report phishing campaigns that appear designed not only to compromise targets but also to overwhelm the analysts responsible for investigating them.
This shifts how organizations should think about phishing defense.