LONDON, UK. July 18. The honeymoon period for new employees is also open season for cybercriminals. Keepnet’s 2025 “New‑Hire Phishing Susceptibility Report”—spanning 237 organisations in finance, retail, healthcare, tech and more—reveals that 71 percent of employees hired within the past three months fall for a phishing email. In other words, nearly three out of four fresh faces are one click away from an incident.
Why the spike in risk? Onboarding often combines eagerness to impress with unfamiliar processes and a limited security context. Attackers know it—and exploit it.
Metric | Insight |
71 % susceptibility | New starters are hit hardest during onboarding. |
44 % more vulnerable | Compared with colleagues who have passed the 90‑day mark. |
30 % risk reduction | Achieved by firms that inject adaptive simulations and behaviour‑centric training into onboarding. |
45 % higher success rate for CEO spoofs | Authority‑based lures trump experience every time, especially among newcomers. |
“Our findings prove that security awareness is not a quarterly checkbox. It must start before the employee’s email account goes live.”
— Ozan Ucar, CEO, Keepnet
“Day‑one orientation packs cover payroll forms, health benefits, hardware. Yet the first lesson for staying employed should be how not to get hacked. Push that message early and often.”
—Simon Nicholls, VP of Keepnet
Keepnet’s Extended Human Risk Management Platform gives security teams a head start, turning onboarding into a resilience accelerator rather than a liability:
Companies adopting this approach report an 85 percent drop in user‑driven incidents.
Download the embargoed 2025 New‑Hire Phishing Susceptibility Report here:
https://keepnetlabs.com/reports/new-hires-phishing-susceptibility-report
Keepnet is the Extended Human Risk Management (xHRM) platform that helps organisations shrink employee‑driven cyber risk through AI‑powered phishing simulations, behaviour‑shaping awareness training, and rapid incident response. Companies worldwide cut phishing susceptibility by up to 92 percent and respond to threats 168 times faster with Keepnet.
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