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A Basic Example of How ThreatSTOP Monitors and Protects Your Organization

Written by ThreatSTOP Security Team | September 22, 2023

Discover how ThreatSTOP plays a crucial role in enhancing your online safety, especially in situations involving potentially deceptive or risky click-baiting tactics. Watch this video as Bryon Black, IT Manager at South Coast Water District, explains how ThreatSTOP adds an additional layer of protection against compromised websites and threats, safeguarding digital activities.

 

 

Key Takeaway

By effectively blocking access to risky websites and redirecting users to safer alternatives, ThreatSTOP ensures that your online experiences remain secure. We offer a valuable solution to combat the risks associated with click-baiting and potentially compromised websites. ThreatSTOP uses your existing network devices (e.g., firewalls and DNS service) to proactively mitigate these risks and prevent access to harmful sites. This robust protection ensures a secure online experience by redirecting users away from risky sites and maintaining a safer browsing environment.

For more information on how ThreatSTOP can enhance your online security, contact us to explore the benefits of this essential safeguarding solution.

 

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Video Transcript:
The use case that we found is that sometimes, perhaps even a particular search engine and towards the bottom of the search engine, there are things that are called click-baiting. They look like they're things that they're enticing you to click and do things. 

Now, maybe those particular sites on first click aren't necessarily risky or something that's going to cause a threat or a particular security anomaly, but if you continue to click through those down there, you might find something that's not great, and it may be something that may cause a compromise. 

So we've been able to utilize ThreatSTOP to be able to mitigate those risks when it gets to a certain place where it does go to the bad neighborhood on the internet. There's a block, or at least there's a message that pushes them to a place where it's still safe, and they know they're probably not able to go there, and sometimes it does a legitimate one, but we know that we have a way that we work threats without being able to mitigate that and let folks be able to do that. 

So we found it to be not very interesting, but varying and highly protected, being able to help us with those things.