You Clicked What? How Phishing Still Owns Your Company

By The Sentinel Wolf. 🐺 Defender of Networks. Destroyer of Excuses.

“We have cybersecurity training…” Yeah? And I have a treadmill I never use. Let’s talk about phishing, the single easiest way to compromise your company — and the thing you still haven’t handled properly.

Let’s start with a friendly stat punch:

• 90% of breaches? Phishing.
• Over 100 million phishing emails are blocked daily by Google alone.
• But your inbox? It’s wide open. Like your CEO’s Venmo feed.

So what happens when that "Amazon delivery delay" email hits an intern’s inbox? If you're lucky: nothing. If you're normal: 1 click = credential theft, business email compromise, maybe even ransomware. Hope you like explaining downtime to customers and regulators.

Here’s How to Stop Getting Owned

I built some cards to make it visual. You know… like kindergarten. Here they are across the top of this post — print them, tattoo them. I don’t care. Just learn from them:

Threat Card: Phishing Scam

• Comes in cheap, only 1 NRC to deploy.
• If your users don’t know better, and your tech isn’t filtering it?
• BOOM: One click and it’s lights out, creds stolen, recon underway.

Defense Cards You’d Need (All of them. Not just one.)

1.      Email Filtering Gateway

Real-world job: Flag the obvious crap before humans see it. Real-world failure: Your Exchange server thinks every email is a VIP.

✔️ Provides 60% damage reduction ✔️ Blocks known bad links/domains ✔️ Requires actual configuration, not just buying it and praying

2.      Security Awareness Training

Real-world job: Train your humans to recognize garbage before they click it. Real-world failure: You sent everyone a video in 2021 and called it done.

✔️ Provides 30% damage reduction ✔️ Makes users question, not click ✔️ Should be monthly, sneaky, and maybe even fun

3.      DMARC Policy Enforcement

Real-world job: Stops email spoofing at the domain level. Real-world failure: “Our marketing vendor said not to enable it.”

✔️ Provides domain integrity ✔️ Required by every company that doesn’t want to look like a joke ✔️ Combined with SPF/DKIM = iron wall against spoofed exec mail

For Regular Humans (aka Users):

Before you click anything, ask yourself:

• Do I know this person? Not just by name — by address. Check it.
• Is it urgent, emotional, or scary? That’s bait. Calm down. Pay attention.
• Hover, don’t click. Links lie. Hover and read the destination URL. Go to the site with a browser manually. Don't click.
• Report it. Every company worth a damn has a "Report Phish" button. Use it.
• STOP thinking security is the IT Department’s job. It’s your email and your ass!

For Owners to ensure their IT Department is doing these things (aka the ones who should know better):

Here's what you better be doing already or I swear I’ll come knocking:

• ✅ Email Gateway with advanced link rewriting, attachment sandboxing, and impersonation detection
• ✅ DMARC with reject policy — not “none.” Get SPF and DKIM locked down
• ✅ Phishing simulations — monthly. Custom. Evil. Hard. Real.
• ✅ Security Awareness — dynamic, relevant, non-snooze.
• ✅ MFA — on everything. If they have it...enable it.
• ✅ SIEM logging — yes, include mail flow metadata and security information.

And for the love of every audit policy, stop letting users whitelist. You might as well give them admin access to your domain controller.

FINAL WORD FROM THE SENTINEL WOLF

Look, if you’re not doing these things in 2025, then don’t be surprised when you wake up and your CEO’s inbox is running crypto scams and your clients are posting breach screenshots on Reddit and AI has full control over your bank account.

You don’t get to say “We didn’t know” anymore.

You don’t get to say “We’ll fix it next quarter.”

You don't get to say "We have nothing anyone would want."

You get to say, “We got breached because we were lazy.”

And I’ll be there. Laughing.

It's simple. Fix it, or get f***ed. 🐺

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