Thursday, September 01, 2022

Some basic levels in Perimeter Protection

 

A basic home office setup with the following components can definitely offer a decent level of protection against Phishing.

 

  1. A Chromium based Web Browser
  2. AVG Antivirus
  3. Cisco Umbrella OpenDNS

 

A sample URL picked up Phishtank to test the same.

 

Opera (Chromium based Browser) presents a recommendation not to visit the URL. (Override-able by the user)

 

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TCP level protection by Web Shield component of AVG Antivirus (not override-able by the user without confirmation using administrative privileges)

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If a link escapes these two protection by any chance, Cisco Umbrella to have its sway (not override-able by the user without confirmation using administrative privileges)

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