This fall, UAB IT is implementing a new, one-click report a phish button in Outlook email.
The new PhishNotify button will appear automatically in Outlook — no installation will be necessary.
You can also continue to report phishing emails by forwarding to
Reporting a phish helps UAB IT more quickly respond to these malicious emails — and protect your accounts, research and data. Once we validate that a phishing email has infiltrated UAB inboxes, UAB IT has tools to help search and destroy that email across all campus inboxes within four minutes, preventing others from clicking malicious links.
UAB IT has implemented a number of tools — including two-factor authentication — to help protect against phish, but the malicious emails can still penetrate our defenses, and UAB IT needs everyone on campus to report them so we can protect our campus’s data and your personal and financial information. Phishing emails can be also a gateway to ransomware attacks, which have hobbled organizations across the country in recent months.
“You can be a hero by reporting a phish and helping to protect yourself and your colleagues — and all it takes is one click,” said Curtis A. Carver Jr., Ph.D., vice president and chief information officer.
In addition to the new PhishNotify button, UAB IT will relaunch quarterly simulated phishing campaigns to help train the campus community in how to recognize a phish. When you click the PhishNotify button to report such an email, you will automatically learn whether it was a simulated phish. Those who fall for a phish will be enrolled in a training course to help them recognize a phish.
Learn how to report an email with PhishNotify by reviewing the video below.