When you click on the Phish Alert Button (PAB), its primary function is to report a suspicious email to your organization's IT security team for analysis and to remove it from your inbox to prevent further interaction with a potential threat.
Let's evaluate the options:
- Directly sent to your IT team and removed from your inbox. This is the standard and most secure action of a PAB. It ensures the email is investigated and no longer poses a risk to the user.
- Automatically opened and forwarded to the entire organisation. This would be a significant security risk, as opening a suspicious email could trigger malware, and forwarding it to everyone would spread the potential threat.
- Directly sent to your supervisor and left in your inbox. While it might be sent to a supervisor, leaving the suspicious email in your inbox is not ideal as it still presents a risk. The goal is typically to remove it.
- Sent to your IT team after a reply is sent to the sender. Replying to a suspicious email is a dangerous action that confirms your email is active and engages with the attacker. A PAB is designed to prevent such actions, not require them.
The correct option is Directly sent to your IT team and removed from your inbox.