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Phishing Awareness

What is Phishing Awareness?

Training programs designed to help employees recognize and report phishing attempts through education and simulated phishing exercises.

Information Security

What the standards actually require on phishing awareness

Requirements naming phishing awareness across 2 standards, quoted from the control text.

Provide role-specific cybersecurity training to IT staff, operators, and engineers including phishing awareness.

AWWA-G430-15 · Cybersecurity Training for Operators

Personnel security + insider threat for aviation cybersecurity covers: (a) FAA Order 1370.123A insider threat program for FAA employees + contractors;

FAA-CSA-Personnel · Personnel Security Training and Insider Threat

Questions people ask about phishing awareness

What is Phishing Awareness?
Training programs designed to help employees recognize and report phishing attempts through education and simulated phishing exercises.
Why is Phishing Awareness important for compliance?
Phishing Awareness is a key concept in Information Security. Understanding phishing awareness helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Phishing Awareness?
Phishing Awareness appears in the requirement text of AWWA Cybersecurity Guidance for the Water Sector (American Water Works Association), FAA Cybersecurity Framework for Aviation. Across these standards we have identified 2 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Phishing Awareness?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how phishing awareness applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

See how Phishing Awareness applies across compliance frameworks

Our platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings. Explore how this concept is addressed across standards.

Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.