Completed by: Bikash Raya
Date: December 2023
Welcome to Mastercard’s Cybersecurity Virtual Experience Program! We are so excited to have you here!
As the world of electronic payments grows, so do we. And we want you to grow with us. Mastercard is part of the NY CEO Jobs Council - a consortium of 30 large NYC employers who are committed to employing 100,000 youth from underserved communities over the next decade. The CEOs of these companies have made a personal pledge to the initiative.
In this virtual experience, you will have the opportunity to build skills and learn what it’s like to work as a Security Analyst at Mastercard. Specifically, you’ll help design a phishing email simulation for the Security Awareness team. You will learn that cyber threats come in many different forms and that you don’t need a technical background to help keep a company and its employees safe from threats.
Introductory
Craft a phishing email simulation to be used to raise awareness of one of the most common threats organizations today face.
- What threat phishing presents to an organization
- What different types of phishing emails look like
- How Mastercard prevents and mitigates phishing threats
Examine an obvious fake email and make it more believable
Introductory
Interpret the performance of the phishing email simulation to deliver phishing prevention training to the affected teams.
- How to identify which areas of the business need more awareness about phishing
- How to design and implement the appropriate training for those teams to lower our risk of an attack
Create a short presentation to help teams improve security awareness