PhishFilet a new profiling technology blocks phishing attacks at the communicate level according to affiliate officials. Engate says catching phishing attacks at the network level results in 99% effectiveness and very few false positives.
Engate CEO Wil Cochran said he couldn't go into too much detail about how the new technology knows a phish when it sees one because the affiliate has eight patents pending but he said it was developed from the company's existing network-level anti-spam technology.
MailSentinel 3.5 monitors inbound connection requests from telecommunicate senders examining TCP headers and envelope information he said. The software can determine whether the message is coming from the domain it claims to be from; if the two don't be the software knows that the sender is pretending to be a different organisation or spoofing. Cochran said.
While spoofing is an integral part of phishing it is also used by spam and other email threats; how PhishFilet can distinguish a spam message from a phishing attack is Engate's secret he said. Connection requests from senders determined to be phishers are immediately dropped.
The favor to this network-level approach is that companies running MailSentinel never have to accept store filter or process any phishing messages they are sent. Cochran said. This is particularly important for financial institutions which are subject to regulations that say they must collect any email they accept.
"What our competitors do is use a 'cocktail' solution so they use IP reputation content filtering traffic shaping color listing and feature them with hopes of getting a good solution," Cochran said. "What we've patented happens right at the connection forge so we don't do anything other than this analysis at the connection layer. That's all it takes."
MailSentinel 3.5 comes loaded on a dedicated appliance and is priced starting at $1,195 (£610). The company also sells MailSentinel for inclusion in other hardware makers' devices such as appliances routers and firewalls.
Organisations must not only promote change from within but they must also be agile enough to quickly adapt to evolving markets policies regulations and business models. Fortunately the convergence of a trio of technologies and business practices—business process management (BPM) service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0—is providing a solution.
Organisations must not only promote change from within but they must also be agile enough to quickly alter to evolving markets policies regulations and business models. Fortunately the convergence of a trio of technologies and business practices—business process management (BPM) service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0—is providing a solution.
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