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Protecteer's SignupShield With Anti-Phishing Technology
SecurityProNews
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2004-12-02
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Protecteer announced its next generation of SignupShield, now with a patent pending Anti-Phishing technology.
"With Signupshield 3.0 we have redesigned the suite to include the most advanced 'zero-hour' anti phishing tool to date. The tool, named 'PhishShield', alerts users before they are about to submit sensitive information over the net to suspicious web sites" said Ami Grynberg, Protecteer's CEO.
While some vendors have chosen to fight scams like Phishing by providing after the fact alerts, SignupShield 3.0 preempts Phishing attacks by alerting users before sensitive information is about to be transmitted to a rogue web site.
Signupshield looks behind the scenes of every form a user is about to submit over the internet and is not fooled by any 'make belief' cloning of real web sites, a technique used by phishing scams. Since it looks at the actual form a user is submitting, signupshield does not really care how users get to a cloned site - via email, search result or spyware.
If SignupShield determines, that indeed a user is about to submit sensitive information and if that information will be sent to a 'suspicious' web site, SignupShield intervenes and alerts the user allowing he or she to abort such transfer of sensitive data before it occurs.
SignupShield's technology is not based on 'black lists' which are available only after the fact. ('Zero-hour' tool means that it is always ready). Nor does SignupShield analyze each site that a user visits.
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