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CyberSift: How to leverage AI to combat phishing

Phishing is one of the most common methods used by cybercriminals to gain access to critical data and achieve their goals. This type of crime has a high chance of being successful, so its use is becoming more and more common.

CiberSift was created with the idea of stopping these fraud attempts by detecting them and preventing them from reaching their destination. In this way, the user does not have to worry and companies can rest assured.

Carried out by Rubens Sanchez

Programme Cybertalent: Cybersecurity Entrepreneurship Programme | In collaboration with the National Institute for Cybersecurity (INCIBE)

Technologies Frontend | Backend | Artificial Intelligence

What is the motivation?

Companies have a great deficit of employees specialised in cybersecurity, due to the lack of professionals in this sector. CiberSift was created to address this major problem that needs to be solved without further delay and to reduce the percentage of companies that suffer successful attacks considerably.

Program aims

  • Reduce the problems arising from not having sufficient cyber-security staff.
  • Improve protection against phishing, one of the most common types of attack.
  • Reduce user training costs.

Development

The process for solving this problem includes:

  • Conduct free trials to demonstrate the need for and usefulness of a phishing detection tool.
  • Develop an AI that is able to detect that an email is not legitimate and is a phishing fraud attempt.

Results

CyberSift is able to detect emails that may appear legitimate at first glance, reducing the impact of phishing on businesses and employees. It also relieves some of the pressure of not having cyber security specialists on staff, as it takes care of monitoring emails and allows experts to focus their energies on other tasks.

Cybersecurity must be accessible and a lack of expertise impacts the entire organisation, from the employees receiving emails to those responsible for keeping critical data secure. CiberSift facilitates this process by providing support to the business in the form of a phishing detector, ensuring that emails arriving in employee inboxes are legitimate.