{"id":573,"date":"2026-05-06T19:37:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/?p=573"},"modified":"2026-05-06T19:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:52:12","slug":"exercising-that-phishing-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/2026\/05\/06\/exercising-that-phishing-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercising that phishing-sense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Twice a year we conduct a simulated phishing exercise for employees. Much like our twice-a-year cyber security training, the phishing simulation is required by both our Cyber Insurance provider and our Financial Auditors. This spring we had a first &#8211; <strong>no one clicked on the link in the simulated phish<\/strong>! In fact, 63% of people didn&#8217;t even open the email. This has never happened in the 4 years we&#8217;ve been doing this cyber training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s great because I suspect everyone&#8217;s <strong>phishing-sense<\/strong> was triggered by the email. So you were cautious and not fooled by it! Keep watching for <a href=\"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/2026\/01\/12\/happy-2026-a-look-back-at-phishing-and-scams-in-2025\/\">red flags in emails<\/a> and exercise that phishing-sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"559\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/05\/phish-sense.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/05\/phish-sense.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/05\/phish-sense-300x164.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/05\/phish-sense-768x419.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twice a year we conduct a simulated phishing exercise for employees. Much like our twice-a-year cyber security training, the phishing simulation is required by both our Cyber Insurance provider and our Financial Auditors. This spring we had a first &#8211; no one clicked on the link in the simulated phish! In fact, 63% of people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-security","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}