Patent ID: 9749360
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method for running a simulated phishing email attack with a simulated phishing email having one or more failure indicators, the method comprising: (a) transmitting, by a simulated attack manager, a simulated phishing email to one or more email accounts, the simulated phishing email comprising a link to a copy of the simulated phishing email based on a phishing email template, the phishing email template comprising one or more failure indicators, each of the one or more failure indicators assigned a flag and a description on how to identify that type of failure indicator; (b) traversing via the link to a display of a copy of the simulated phishing email responsive to a user interaction with the simulated phishing email by a user of an email account of the one or more email accounts receiving the simulated phishing email; (c) displaying with the copy of the simulated phishing email one or more flags from the phishing email template corresponding to the one or more failure indicators; and (d) displaying, responsive to a user interaction with a flag of the one or more flags in the copy of the simulated phishing email, the description to how to identify that type of failure indicator corresponding to the flag in one of a pop up box or overlay user interface responsive to a pointer hovering over the flag.