SlashNext, a leading provider of real-time anti-phishing and
incident response solutions, today announced two new products designed to
protect enterprise mobile and endpoint users from increasingly dangerous
phishing and social engineering threats. These solutions protect users from the
growing variety of phishing threats occurring across multiple attack vectors,
including email, SMS/text, social media, messaging apps, ads, pop-ups, and
more.
With enterprise mobility requirements and remote workers
becoming more commonplace, mobile and remote workers are increasingly operating
outside of network security protections. This makes users, and their employers,
more vulnerable to a growing variety of sophisticated phishing threats. Mobile
devices also lack the breadth of safe browsing protections available on
standard desktop browsers due to device resource constraints. Further
complicating matters is the fact that even cyber-savvy users can struggle to
identify phishing attacks on mobile as smaller screen layouts hide important
clues such as full URLs, senders' details, and more.
"Securing mobile and remote users from the expanding
array of targeted phishing attacks is a huge challenge for enterprise security
teams," said Atif Mushtaq, CEO and founder, SlashNext. "Phishing used
to be an email only problem addressed by email gateways and cyber education.
Now, organizations need to protect users from more evasive phishing threats in
email as well as from additional unprotected attack vectors and payloads,
especially when users are outside network perimeter defenses. By providing a
new kind of multi-vector, multi-payload phishing protection solution, we help
organizations reduce their phishing risk exposure, and thus their risk of data
theft, cyber extortion, and costly breaches."
The new products being announced today are SlashNext Mobile
Phishing Protection and SlashNext Browser Phishing Protection. Both are
comprised of lightweight, cloud-powered endpoint agents continuously updated
with real-time phishing threat intelligence from SlashNext's patented SEERTM
threat detection technology.
SLASHNEXT MOBILE PHISHING PROTECTION
With SlashNext Mobile Phishing Protection, enterprise
security teams can protect iOS and Android device users with more effective
multi-vector, multi-payload phishing protection. A lightweight agent blocks
live phishing sites, regardless of where users get the link, and offers a
helpful warning page and safe preview of the site for education purposes. It
also blocks and alerts users to incoming SMS phishing (SMiShing) messages, an
increasingly popular attack vector on mobile. Security administrators get
visibility with real-time incident reporting.
SlashNext Mobile Phishing Protection is designed to address
the many special challenges presented by mobile phishing in both managed device
and BYOD environments. It is a lightweight agent featuring negligible impact on
device performance, battery consumption, and data usage. No network traffic or
personally identifiable information leaves the device, so PII and user privacy
remain secure. It is easily deployed and managed via integrations with leading
Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) platforms and Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions.
For customers without a UEM, the solutions can also be deployed via the
SlashNext Endpoint Management System.
BROWSER PHISHING PROTECTION
With SlashNext Browser Phishing Protection, enterprise
security teams can provide endpoint users with more effective
multi-vector, multi-payload phishing protection. Deployed as lightweight
browser extensions for all popular desktop browsers (Chrome, FireFox, Safari,
and Edge), these extensions block live phishing sites, regardless of where users
get the link. Users get helpful warning pages and a safe preview of the site
for education purposes. Security administrators get visibility with real-time
incident reporting.
SlashNext Browser Phishing Protection is an important
expansion of the Safe Browsing capabilities included with all major desktop
browsers. Built-in Safe Browsing protections do not keep pace with thousands of
newly emerging zero-hour phishing threats and new phishing payload types. By
contrast, SlashNext browser extensions are powered by real-time threat
intelligence from the SlashNext SEER technology cloud, providing preemptive
detection and protection from a broader range of phishing threats, especially
newly emerging zero-hour threats.
SlashNext even helps protects endpoint users from accessing
rogue browser extension, which are often promoted through ads on legitimate
websites. These rogue browser extensions often work as advertised while
secretly also functioning as keyloggers, screen scrapers, and 2FA interceptors
for threat actors. As these extensions typically involve only JavaScript and
HTML and execute entirely in browser memory, they evade detection by most
anti-virus technologies.