New tool helps identify and block phishing attacks

People are often the weakest link in the IT security chain and hackers are keen to exploit this with ever more sophisticated attacks. Predictive email defense specialist Vade Secure is launching a new anti-phishing solution that helps security operations centers identify and block targeted phishing attacks. Called IsItPhishing Threat Detection, it uses machine learning algorithms to perform real-time analysis of around 50 features of the URL and page content. These models have been trained using Vade Secure's global threat intelligence gathered from 500 million mailboxes and 6 million daily URL scans. The number of features checked is optimized using an… [Continue Reading]