Phishing Protection

Phishing emails mimic legitimate messages from financial institutions, web merchants, and other sources in order to mislead users into sending confidential information to criminals.

While most attacks are designed to capture personnel information, there is increasing potential for phishing methods to be used to capture user IDs, passwords, and other confidential information that could aid hackers in penetrating corporate databases.

Astaro’s Phishing Protection application detects and blocks emails that attempt to capture confidential information that can be used for identity theft, fraud, and attacks on corporate networks.

Accurate Identification of Phishing

Astaro’s Phishing Protection utilizes a variety of methods to identify and block Phishing emails:

• Text in emails is compared with known examples of Phishing messages. Messages containing known phishing patterns are blocked before they reach the user’s inbox.
• Phishing emails contain links to fraudulent web sites. Users who click on these links will be prevented from reaching the phishing web site if Astaro’s Content Filtering application (part of the Web Security Subscription) is set to block links that are uncategorized or that are categorized as “suspicious.”
• Content downloaded from web sites will be blocked if it matches patterns of phishing content.