b'ACCO Excels in Phishing Test Employees Urged to Remain VigilantBy Neville SamuelsFailed (0)0%On May 7, I received an email with the subject4% Clicked on Link (103)header, Update and Validate Your Account0%appear in my inbox. I was busy and ignored the email because I was sure it was spamafter all,Form Interaction (0)the sender, listed as ACCO System Notice, did not appear to be a legitimate email address. 96% Not Clicked on Link (2801)Almost 3,000 ACCO employees received the100%same email, which turned out to be a quarterlyParticipated (2904)phishing test conducted by the Information Technology department (IT). If this was not a test, Journigan said employees could have had their main ACCO password Email is the single easiest way to breach acompromised.company, said Gregg Journigan, Director, Cybersecurity at ACCO. You would be shocked Multifactor Authentication (MFA) would have to see the sheer amount of email that flowsbeen a secondary line of defense and probably through this company daily. Most of it is scams,the employees would have been bombarded with phishing, spam and viruses. MFA requests, he said. This is a business email compromise that would not have caused a breach We sent the test to 2,939 employees and only 99 or 3% of those employees who received the"You would be shocked to see email clicked to verify their accounts as the email requested, he said. We wanted the employeesthe sheer amount of email that to delete the email or report it and many employees reported it as spam or phishing to the Serviceflows through this company Desk or to the Cyber team.daily. Most of it is scams, According to Journigan, ACCO is improving with each phishing test, having had a 5.7% failure ratephishing, spam and viruses."on the last test. Gregg JourniganThese results indicate that our employeecybersecurity vigilance is fantastic, he said. Board-sponsored assessments and cybersecurityof the network by itself, but would have laid the insurance renewals have shown that ACCO has groundwork for it. An immediate call to the Service a viable cybersecurity program. Desk is the proper response.CONTINUED ON PAGE 22 ACCOLADES|11'