Blue Coat’s Real-Time Phishing Detection: White Board Demo

Blue Coat’s Real-Time Phishing Detection: White Board Demo
by Tek-Tips

Mikko Valimaki is chief scientist at Blue Coat. At the RSA Conference last week, he gave us a “white board” demonstration of Blue Coat’s real-time phishing detection and showed how the “cloud,” plays in making the service possible.

He also provides a startling example of how online fraudsters are proving their creativity. In his words, it’s where web 2.0 meets world 2.0.

Tags: Blue Coat, Malware, Phishing, phishing detection, Web 2.0, world 2.0

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