Loading ...Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL have collaborated with Agari for keeping the Phishing e-mails astray and protect the interests of users.
There is no doubt about the fact that e-mails are an essential mode of communication both at the personal and professional sphere. These are considered to be the safest as well as the easiest way to communicate. However, the rise in hacking and phishing activities has apparently put a question mark to the safety of using e-mails for communication purposes. No matter how renowned an e-mail service provider is, the malicious minds manage some or the other way to create nuisance and hack personal e-mail accounts of people by sending misleading phishing e-mails.
To tackle this serious issue, major e-mail service providers like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL have come together and joined hands with a California based start-up firm Agari. The major agenda for such collaboration is to keep the e-mail inbox of the clients free from phishing and scam e-mails.
Agari CEO Patrik Peterson said, “Agari collects data from about 1.5 billion messages a day and then analyzes them in a cloud-based infrastructure.”
Daniel Raskin, vice president – marketing, Agari, told CNET in an interview, “Facebook can go into the Agari console and see charts and graphs of all the activity going on in their e-mail channel (on their domains and third-party solutions) and see when an attack is going on in a bar chart of spam hitting Yahoo”.
The organization collects data and forwards it to 50 e-commerce websites after analyzing it thoroughly. These include financial services as well as social networking sites including Facebook. There is a speculation by Google that Gmail will be highly benefitted by the service.
Agari will be the best shield for e-mails. Currently, the entity is providing protection to over 50 percent U.S. consumer e-mail traffic and individual inboxes exceeding over one billion.
