The Threat of Email Phishing Attacks and the Latest Phishing Prevention Technology
Phishing could be defined as the attacker’s attempt to steal your important and private information for malicious use. Phishing comes in various forms. There are malwares that could disguise as useful tools or as software updates in your browser. They can copy the physical look of a legit corporate website (a bank’s website would be a good example) to lure you into providing your bank account details and password only to know afterwards that you have become a victim of cyber-hacking. Sometimes they also come to you through an email with attached link pretending to be coming from a trusted website saying that you have been chosen or have won something from their raffle promos. Once clicked and after having provided your personal information, it redirects you to the hacker’s server instead of taking you to a legit website. This activity has become prevalent in cyberspace wherein millions of people usually upload their sensitive information via the internet. To cyber-attackers, the cyberspace is simply a vast ocean full of valuable resources and information to catch and pilfer. Phishing, therefore, is tantamount to online robbery, wherein these online robbers could make millions of dollars without the risk of getting caught.
With a growing number of email phishing attacks, a leading company of its kind, which is engaged in online security, has developed a Threat Isolation Platform to prevent phishing and to secure every browsing activity as well as email activities within any network. This platform is capable of isolating the links from phishing sites that are received via email, and can block the end-point users in sending out sensitive information such as those of corporate passwords to a malicious website. The malicious website is usually identified as a non-corporate website pretending to be a corporate one.
This isolation platform can also read the attachments even without downloading them. It can convert the attachment into a temporary file (referred to as visual streams), and prevent the actual attachment from reaching the endpoint. Only the visual streams will be accessed by the user. The idea behind this solution or platform is to block all possible threats by assuming that all emails and web links are malicious.
Another feature of this platform is that it has a unique technology called “Transparent Client Rendering (TCR) technology” which allows the application to run independently, and it does not require installation into your computer terminals. It is the latest online security technology today which supports all operating systems, browsers, email platforms, and different devices. This technology is designed to run in real time both in order to prevent phishing attacks from the web, since the interaction between the endpoints and the internet is in real time. A delay in running any anti-threat solutions, even by a single second, will only give attackers a chance to penetrate or breach the endpoints by simply luring the users into their traps.
Compare to prior technologies introduced in the market during the previous years, the integration of this technology is making other online security platforms obsolete, for this isolation platform has so many unique features that other anti-phishing software do not possess. We could even say that this is the future of online security—milestone in computer technology.














