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Government Launches Anti-Phishing Campaign

National intelligence office effort aims to prevent new attacks in the wake of the OPM breach.

By Roy Urrico | Updated on September 11, 2015

With the number of data breaches reported in 2015 keeping pace with 2014’s record total, as well as the looming consequences of the massive Office of Personnel Management data compromise, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has kicked off an anti-phishing campaign.

The national intelligence office launched the government-wide awareness campaign to prevent future data breaches in federal information technology systems.

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“In 91% of the breaches we’ve seen in the government and private sector over the last several years, the attacks emanated from spear phishing,” Bill Evanina, ODNI’s national counterintelligence executive, said at the Intelligence & National Security Summit in Washington. “Our adversaries do not need to use sophisticated attacks, it all starts with emails.”

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Roy Urrico

Roy Urrico

Roy W. Urrico specializes in articles about financial technology and services for Credit Union Times, as well as ghostwriting, copywriting, and case studies. Also: writer/editor of a semi-annual newsletter for Association for Financial Technology since 1997 and history projects funded by the U.S Interior Department, National Park Service and Warren County (N.Y.).

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