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Anti-Phishing Safeguards Your Enterprise from Phishing Emails
Phishing emails are specifically created to imitate legitimate emails, often copying actual corporate communication. Billions of phishing emails are sent out every month and can lead to identity theft, security breaches, and financial loss and liability. The average successful fraud nets $1,400, and the latest research estimates that phishing caused more than $44 billion in damages worldwide in 2004. 

Flush with the success of defrauding consumers, fraudsters now are turning their sights on businesses. Leveraging social engineering to evade corporate security systems, fraudsters gain network access and steal confidential corporate data and financial assets.  With the unwitting cooperation of an employee, every network defense is useless, including firewalls, IDS/IPS, and secure identification cards.

Corporate Fraudulent Phishing Email




Phishing is Not Spam
 Because phishing emails are designed to look like legitimate business correspondence, they consistently elude spam filters. Phishing requires specific analysis, identification, and handling. And email policies alone cannot be used to protect the organization.

What Is the Difference between Spam and Phishing Fraud?

  Spam But Phishing
How does it arrive? Sneaks in the back door. Walks in the front door.
How does it make its offer? Looks bad, seems far-fetched. Looks plausible, seems credible.
What is it trying to do? Tries to sell you something. Tries to steal something from you.


Stopping Phishing: Unique Solution for a Unique Threat
The only solution that uniquely identifies email phishing, MailFrontier not only captures phishing, but provides complete protection through MailFrontier Cognite™, a revolutionary evidence evaluation system that includes fraudulent email header, content, and contact point analysis.

The Three Points of MailFrontier Anti-Phishing


  • Headers
    MailFrontier Anti-Phishing protection includes header analysis with Sender ID and MailFrontier Reputation™ evaluation, which uses MailFrontier’s leading reputation database of over 20 million contact points to validate the quality of the email message and sender. MailFrontier Anti-Phishing header review also includes cross-reference with MailFrontier’s proprietary, real-time black list of known senders of phishing email. Key to the success of MailFrontier header analysis is the support of MailFrontier SMART Network™, which is a real-time network of over one million global users whose responses enable MailFrontier to determine how to quickly identify phishing emails.

  • Content
    Leveraging MailFrontier’s expertise and success with Adversarial Bayesian™ for anti-spam, MailFrontier Anti-Phishing incorporates Bayesian Fraud™ into its content analysis.  Developed from an extensive database of phishing and fraud samples collected from the MailFrontier SMART Network and vetted by MailFrontier Research, Bayesian Fraud content analysis differentiates and isolates phishing fraud from spam during the filtering process.

  • Contact Points
    Spearheaded by MailFrontier Research, MailFrontier is the industry leader in contact point analysis. MailFrontier Anti-Phishing offers three levels of contact point review:
    • Browser exploit detection
      MailFrontier analyzes emails for items such as obfuscated URLs, port-number inconsistencies, redirections, and encoding that exploit vulnerabilities in browsers and operating systems.
    • Social engineering trick checks
       Techniques, such as Divergence Detection™, which examines the difference between the appearance of a link and the actual result of acting on that link, are used by MailFrontier to search for tricks common in phishing fraud emails, but not in legitimate ones.
    • Real-Time Phishing List™
      MailFrontier cross-checks all contact points against its Real-Time Phishing List™, the industry’s most extensive list of known phishing links.

MailFrontier also offers anti-phishing options that align with other corporate security processes:
  • Directory Harvest Attack protection can be used to thwart fraudsters
  • Alerts about new types of emerging fraud attacks can be sent to specified email addresses or to all users, keeping the company informed of phishing threats and helping to increase awareness and caution.
  • Copies of all fraudulent emails sent to the company can be forwarded to specified email addresses showing the phishing threats that have been averted.

Finally, MailFrontier offers distinct phishing reporting, along with alert and feedback tools, so that administrators can be kept aware of trends, make necessary security modifications, and report those findings back to other entities that are part of your security network.