Phishing Simulation Solutions

Many organizations use phishing simulation solutions to educate their employees on how to detect and report phishing attacks. These solutions send fake phishing emails to employees to try and trick them into performing actions, opening attachments or clicking on phishing URLs.

Avanan automatically detects such emails from commonly-used phishing simulation solutions. Phishing reports from users regarding these emails will be automatically declined.

Avanan detects phishing simulation solutions from the following:

If you use a different phishing simulation solution:

• To avoid detection of phishing simulation emails, add an Anti-Phishing Allow-List rule based on the solution's IP address.

  For information about adding an Allow-List, see Anti-Phishing Exceptions.

• The phishing reports of known phishing simulation tools are automatically rejected.

• To request for supporting a new phishing simulation solution, contact Avanan Support.

• To automatically decline end-users' phishing reports regarding phishing simulation emails, contact Avanan Support.