We have all heard about phishing websites where hackers try to get you to reveal personal information, or emails when it says, for conformation please give us...etc. Here at
Secure Identity Systems we are offering banks and financial institutions a world class phishing detection and take down service. This is important to banks because if a phising website has the fake "First National Bank" logo on it, the bank could get a bad reputation. The following is a press release SIS sent out to describe how banks can take care of this problem.
Secure Identity Systems introduces anti-phishing services
Phishing attacks aren't causing problems for just consumers. They're also destroying the integrity of financial institution brands online.
But now with new
anti-phishing services from
Secure Identity Systems (SIS), financial institutions gain control of their brand integrity online, while protecting consumers from phishing attacks. Most important, these services enable financial institutions to fulfill Section 114 of the Identity Theft
Red Flags and Address Discrepancies under the
Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA), which requires them to implement "reasonable
policies and procedures" for identifying, thwarting, and preventing red flag activities-including phishing attacks-by Nov. 1.
"Phishing attacks continue to compromise consumers' identities, and undermine their trust in online commerce-that includes online banking," says Bryan Ansley, CEO of
Secure Identity Systems. "By integrating world-class phishing detection and take-down services into our comprehensive services offering, we're giving our financial institution clients a complete solution for protecting their customers' interests, and complying with federal ID protection mandates."
Available now through SIS, the
anti-phishing services enable banks, credit unions, and other
financial organizations to track the occurrence of their name, brands, trademarks, and slogans on the Internet. The service identifies phishing attacks, where e-mails and Web sites that display the financial institution's brand are used to trick unwary consumers into providing account and logon information.
SIS customers will be protected by a technology that is detecting and blocking as many as 5,000 phishing attacks daily around the world.
The technology uses extensive Internet surveying, which works by comparing the authentic Web site with a continuously updated database that includes over 172 million Web sites and domain names, SSL certificates, and feeds of phishing data from multiple sources. That's only the beginning: after a phishing site is detected, countermeasures are launched to take down the phishing site. First, access to the site is restricted in popular browsers and security products, reducing its ability to lure and entrap consumers. The service then contacts the site owner, the ISP responsible for hosting the site, the domain registrar, upstream provider, and law enforcement to have the phishing site taken down. Once a site is taken down, the service will continue to monitor the site from various monitoring points around the world.
Source:
Secure Identity Systems
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