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A Comparison of Green Armor's Identity Cues and Earlier Anti-Phishing Offerings

Green Armor Solutions’ flagship product, Identity Cues, represents the dawn of a new user-friendly proactive approach to combating phishing, pharming, and online fraud. Its patent-pending technology targets the root cause of the phishing problem – the ease with which the online user experience of a legitimate business can be duplicated and with which users can be deceived. It offers several significant advantages over previous-generation anti-phishing offerings.

The following are some of the benefits that the Green Armor solution offers users, administrators, and implementers of anti-phishing technology when compared with other techniques for combating phishing:

Type of anti-phishing technology: Transaction Analysis

Green Armor's Identity Cues

Other Technologies

Proactive - Blocks phishing before it succeeds

Reactive - Attempts to identify transactions executed by criminals after phishing has occurred

Effective against both the pilfering of information and financial fraud achieved via phishing

May be unable to stop pilfering of information via phishing, and may not catch all phishing-related transactional fraud

Effective against "low and slow" phishing attacks (in which criminals phish a user and then make relatively-inconspicuous, small fraudulent financial transactions)

"Low and slow" attacks may not be detectable

 

Type of anti-phishing technology: Secret Images & Answers

Green Armor's Identity Cues Other Technologies

Maintains simple user experience

Users may be inconvenienced, as several additional steps are necessary in order to login to an online system

Does not require conscious "work" by users

Additional demands may be made upon users as in addition to their usual login name and password, users may need to establish and remember several secret question-and-answer pairs and a secret image

Secure

Criminals and hackers may be able to easily determine what the secret image is for any particular user (or group of users) by knowing (or guessing) the user's username/s. This could lead to the criminal successfully executing a"targeted phishing" attack against that user (or group of users).

Criminals and hackers may be able to determine what user login names are valid for online banking systems and other computers.

Users may choose the same secret images or question-and-answer pairs for multiple web sites. A security breach at one site could lead to a security breach at others.

User experience is always the same, regardless of what computer the user uses for access User experience may vary based on the device used for access. This may confuse some users
No significant ongoing maintenance Ongoing maintenance of secret-question-and-answer databases and of secret-images databases

 

Type of anti-phishing technology: Email Filtering/Authenticated Email

Green Armor's Identity Cues Other Technologies

Effective against pharming

Does not protect against pharming

Effective against instant-messaging initiated phishing Does not protect against instant-messaging initiated phishing
Effective against blog-initiated phishing Does not protect against blog-initated phishing
Effective against personalized phishing attacks (in which criminals target specific individuals) In some cases, does not protect against personalized phishing attacks.
Does not require end users to install software on any computers May require users to install software on computers that they use for accessing the Internet
Provides protection when user accesses a site from any browser In order to be protected, user may have to use a specific computer when accessing the Internet

 

Type of anti-phishing technology: Anti-phishing software installed on end-users' computers

Green Armor's Identity Cues Other Technologies

Protects against pharming

Often does not protect against pharming

Works with all sites May not work with some sites
User can use any computer to access the Internet and will be protected Users are protected only when they access the Internet from the specific computers on which the anti-phishing software is installed.
Simple installation onto server/s in corporate data center May require the installation and management of software on numerous remote computers not otherwise under organizational management

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