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Deceitful emails are illusory measures that are taken up by attackers for personal gain in order to lure in innocent people. They are used to scam and defraud people. The emails usually involve offers that are too good to be true, and they are targeted towards naïve individuals. If you as a Cybersecurity expert are facing a phishing email scenario in your organisation Trident, how will you educate employees within your organisation. Illustrate and justify the use of machine learning to catch email fraud and spam to top management besides ensuring digital literacy in your organisation. Cite your sources. [4 marks + 1 mark for Referencing Style = 5 marks]

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This is actually an apt topic especially in this kind of COVID-19 situation.

Each and every organizations are now a days facing cybersecurity threats. The attackers are simply making use of this pandemic situation and easily targeting the innocent employees. The thing is the emails sound to be too good and you will believe it as a real one

Being a cybersecurity expert, I will 1^st create awareness to all my employees and thereby I will educate them. Before it is too late, I have to handle this with top priority because if I delay in reaching my employees then the attackers are swift enough to reach them even before I do.

1) Creating cybersecurity HOTLINE number and will encourage all my employees to report the threat if they face any.

2) I will share them various examples of email threat and will explain them on how it has affected the organization as a whole.

3) Will not encourage them to respond to such emails or open the attachments.

4) I will conduct various quiz competition with cyber security as topic, this will encourage them to participate and get to know more about it.

5) The online and classroom trainings will be conducted to all employees on how to handle this situation.

This will surely help them to stay vigilant and also, they will feel ease to approach the cybersecurity team to report this kind of threat if they face in future.

The Machine language and Artificial intelligence are playing major role in detecting and blocking the threats related to cybersecurity. They have the ability to correlate the data and helps in identifying the possible threat. They can predict what will be the next step and you can be more proactive in preventing issue reaching the source.

So, when next time any suspicious email reaches our inbox this will quickly scan for the details and if there is any potential threat it will block the same and ensure to maintain security within the organization

AI and ML can handle large amount of both structured and unstructured data within short span of time and can detect all possible threats associated with it. They swiftly scan the data and stops the risk even before you get to know what actually it is.

With this I will approach the top management and present the factual data to them and for sure they will implement AI and ML for safeguarding the organizations data.

*Source on AI & ML: Persistent system

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