“Never allow a crisis to go to waste. Start planning for the future. This has to be the last pandemic that creates an economic depression.” Rahm Emanuel, former mayor of Chicago and chief of staff to Barrack Obama, summed up the intent of this article beautifully when he recently appeared on ABC’s ‘This Week’ television program.

Email based threats have been a part of the cyber security landscape for a long time, and they will remain a part of that landscape for the foreseeable future. From Q2 to Q3 of 2019, incidents of phishing and scam emails reported in New Zealand rose by 27%, according to CERT-NZ. Cyber criminals know that lack of user awareness is a common exploitable weakness in most NZ small to medium enterprises, so understanding this cyber threat, and how to combat it, are vital for NZ business owners. This blog will give you a valuable overview of the cyber attacks that use email as an attack vector.