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[New Product] Supercharge Your Anti-Phishing Defense with KnowBe4’s PhishER Plus!

Written by Stu Sjouwerman | Aug 7, 2023 11:00:00 AM

Staying one step ahead of cybercriminals is absolutely vital in today’s threat landscape. That's why we're thrilled to introduce PhishER Plus, a revolutionary product from KnowBe4 that takes your anti-phishing defense to a whole new level.

Phishing attacks remain the top cyberthreat out there. It's tough to keep up with the ever-evolving techniques of bad actors. Recent research from Armorblox showed how cybercriminals are constantly refining their phishing tactics, successfully bypassing legacy email security tools a staggering 56% of the time!

Today, Secure Email Gateways (SEGs) and other security tools often miss the mark when it comes to protecting your last line of defense - the human. Email security isn't just about signatures or sophisticated algorithms; it's also about leveraging the collective intelligence of 10+ million trained employees worldwide. Enter PhishER Plus!

Introducing PhishER Plus

In developing PhishER Plus, our goal was to supercharge your anti-phishing defense. How? By harnessing the incredible power of human intuition and intelligence and combining it with cutting-edge AI technology.

PhishER Plus gives you two extremely powerful capabilities:

  • Global Blocklist, an active global threat feed for Microsoft 365, and
  • Global PhishRIP, a cutting-edge email quarantine feature that automatically removes threats before they are even make it into your org.

The reported threats go through a rigorous three-step validation and analysis process. First, we tap into our global network of crowdsourced intelligence:  the 10+ million highly trained KnowBe4 users who identify and report potential emails threats.

Next, each organization’s Incident Response team using PhishER Plus validates that the user-report is a legitimate threat, including the use of AI-enabled features within PhishER.

And last but not least, our expert team at the KnowBe4 Threat Research Lab then examine and vet each submission to ensure its validity prior to entering it into the Global Blocklist. Once in the Global Blocklist, all of KnowBe4's PhishER Plus customers will now be protected against the same attack. And if that attack is already within your network, you can then use the PhishRIP feature to eliminate it from all of your users email boxes.

This three-step, crowdsourced validation process gives you the benefit of the millions of highly trained end users globally who detect and report phishing attacks and social engineering tactics the moment they are in the wild. 

The result? A near real-time blocklist of phishing threats that's continually evolving and improving. PhishER Plus arms you with real-world intelligence, giving you a unique, advanced edge, that you need to defend your organization effectively. Learn more about how crowdsourced threat intelligence catches phishing threats that SEGs miss:

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The PhishER Plus Advantage

So, why should you choose PhishER Plus as your go-to for anti-phishing defense? Let's recap the incredible advantages this powerful tool brings to the table:

  • Crowdsourced Intelligence: PhishER Plus leverages the collective intelligence of over 10 million highly trained KnowBe4 users worldwide
  • Dynamic Global Blocklist: With a continually updated threat feed, the Global Blocklist ensures you automatically block phishing attacks your legacy email security filters missed
  • Automated Quarantine: Isolate and "rip" malicious emails from your users’ inboxes that already bypassed mail filters with Global PhishRIP
  • Verified Accuracy: Each reported threat goes through a three-tier validation process, involving both human and AI-based analysis, to ensure accuracy and relevance
  • Operational Efficiency: Reduce the volume of remediation efforts handled by your SOC team and save time and budget

 

There is strength in numbers. Leverage the power of the KnowBe4 Threat Research Lab and KnowBe4’s end user network around the world to help protect against new and sophisticated  phishing and social engineering attacks with PhishER Plus. 

It’s simple: together we are stronger.

See it for yourself. Request your live demo of PhishER Plus today and see how you can supercharge your anti-phishing defense.

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