Regular awareness sessions help employees recognize signs of deception such as spoofed addresses, urgent language, unexpected attachments, and mismatched URLs. These human-layer defenses are critical, as technical controls like filtering and blocking may not detect cleverly disguised phishing attempts. Password policy changes or content blocking are not effective against attacks that rely on user trust. Education remains the most direct and adaptive countermeasure to socially engineered infiltration.
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