Join Us for the 2025 Gone Phishing Challenge!

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Fortra invites you to participate in an online phishing challenge featuring real-world simulations designed to provide precise benchmarking statistics on end-user phishing awareness. 

Ready to Participate? 

The annual Gone Phishing Challenge is a free annual phishing simulation training event that helps organizations and security leaders better understand high-risk areas, compare phishing performance, and establish data-driven goals with accurate benchmarking data.

Participating organizations can drastically reduce data breach possibilities by pinpointing and addressing their high-risk employees and profiles.

Accurate benchmarking data also let you compare your performance to your peers by:

  • Industry
  • Geographic region
  • Size segment 

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Why Register for the Gone Phishing Challenge?

What is the Gone Phishing Challenge?

It’s an online phishing challenge that uses real-world simulations to establish accurate phishing clickthrough rates and additional benchmarking statistics for end user behaviors.

Who Should Participate?

Any organization that wants to measure their phishing click rate and other benchmarks against other participants in the same industry, region, and size range.

Why Should You Register?

By basing benchmarking data on a single phishing template deployed within a pre-determined period, the Gone Phishing Challenge provides organizations worldwide with the actionable insights they need to establish and grow a culture of cyber security awareness.

 

Fortra selects and builds the phishing simulation template used in the annual Gone Phishing Challenge. As in real-world attacks, the simulation used manipulative techniques hackers often exploit to prey on common human instincts, like the automatic trust response. The annual template test end user behaviors like clicking on a link in a phishing message and whether they compromise confidential data.

See how your organization’s phishing knowledge compares to others in your industry and region. Build a stronger, safer organizational with culture with high-validity benchmarking data.

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The Gone Phishing Challenge delivers: 

customizable phishing

A real-world phishing scenario that tests your team's readiness

Dashboard and Reporting

Valuable metrics to evaluate your current cyber security training effectiveness

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Opportunities to accurately compare your results to global benchmarks

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A Cybersecurity Event Like No Other 

The Gone Phishing Challenge isn't just a competition. It's your chance to delve deep into the cyber world, understand its threats,
and empower your team with the knowledge to fend off phishing attacks

Participants will receive this year’s phishing simulation on a scheduled date during the Gone Phishing Challenge, with organizations receiving the same simulation for accurate comparison. While simulations are not sent simultaneously to all participants to manage security and bandwidth, personalized results are delivered shortly after the event concludes. 

Your organization can view and export phishing simulation results directly in the platform shortly after the event ends. Once notified that your results are ready, your Gone Phishing Challenge account administrator(s) can access them using their login credentials.  

The global phishing benchmark report, which highlights overall results and CISO recommendations, will be available later in the year. 

After a participating organization registers for the Gone Phishing Challenge, they gain access to the dedicated Security Awareness Platform environment used for the event. Each organization’s view in the environment is restricted to only information associated with their administrator profile and end users . Additionally, a select number of Fortra employees have privileged access to all participating organization profiles to ensure a smooth setup, execution, and support process throughout the event. 

All administrators acting on behalf of participating organizations must complete the following steps before the Gone Phishing Challenge start date:

  1. Provide all required organizational information.
  2. Complete IP, URL, and domain allowlisting  
  3. Upload a participating user list with all mandatory fields filled out

Once you’ve completed the registration and password reset process, these steps are outlined to log into the Security Awareness Platform environment for the event. For assistance in completing this setup process, you can always contact the Fortra support team.

What is the minimum TLS enforced during transmission?

The minimum Transport Layer Security (TLS) supported for the Gone Phishing Tournament is 1.2.  

Any protocols other than HTTPS?

As of this writing, there are no additional protocols in place other than HTTPS.

What is the cloud provider?

The cloud provider used for the Gone Phishing Challenge is Microsoft Azure.