Finjan SecureBrowsing provides you with safety ratings of URLs showing in your browser.
Utilizing innovative security technologies, proven in large enterprise environments,
it helps keep you safe from online scams as you search and browse the web.
About Finjan SecureBrowsing
Finjan SecureBrowsing is a free service that proactively alerts you to potential malicious content hiding behind links of search results, ads and other selected web pages. Finjan SecureBrowsing accesses each of the URLs in its current form on the web, and scans the relevant pages in real time using Finjan's patented behavior-based technology. Finjan SecureBrowsing then displays a safety rating next to each link it has scanned.
In today's highly connected world, the first place most people go to search for information is the Internet. Whether it's a fourth-grader writing his/her first history paper or a corporate business analyst researching the competition, the first step in their research is going to involve a web search engine. However, while search engines are indispensable tools when it comes to locating information on the web, they are much less equipped at letting users know about potential security threats lurking within the search results. In addition, when browsing the Web, users visit various sites and are exposed to threats driven by ads or other third parties.
Finjan believes that users shouldn't have to worry about malicious code that may be hidden within seemingly innocuous websites - waiting to pounce on unsuspecting victims. With the current generation of threats, including Spyware and Trojans that can be hidden in apparently harmless Active Content, one click can be enough to infect a computer or even compromise an entire corporate network. As the leading innovator in the proactive web security space, Finjan is committed to delivering the most advanced technologies that will realize our vision of a safe and productive Internet environment for consumers and businesses.
SecureBrowsing enlightens users to potential threats before they click on search results or other links on web pages, allowing them to explore the web safely. This service empowers the user to make intelligent choices, unleashing the full potential of the web without security worries.
How is Finjan SecureBrowsing Unique?
What is Finjan SecureBrowsing?
How do I benefit from Finjan SecureBrowsing?
What types of threats are identified?
What information do I receive on malicious web pages?
How can a malicious webpage harm my computer?
How many websites are mapped by Finjan SecureBrowsing?
What happens if a website contained malicious code in the past, but now is ok?
How accurate is the indication I get?
Who stands behind Finjan SecureBrowsing?
How is Finjan SecureBrowsing different than other available solutions?
How is Finjan SecureBrowsing different than Finjan Vital Security Web Appliance?
Can Finjan SecureBrowsing be a replacement for Finjan Vital Security Web Appliance?
Q. How Is Finjan SecureBrowsing Unique?
A. Finjan SecureBrowsing is based on patented behavior-based content inspection technology, which is the only solution that proactively detects both known and unknown web threats. This unique real-time technology sets SecureBrowsing apart from other products on the market, most of which rely on database updates. Finjan SecureBrowsing analyzes and understands the actual intent of the code on each web page, thus protecting you in real-time. Finjan's behavior-based technology is proven in large enterprise environments to be highly effective in the detection and prevention of all types of web-borne threats and attacks.
Finjan's technology inspects web content in real time to determine what the code intends to do - before it begins to run on the target computer. It identifies the combinations of operations, parameters, script manipulations and other exploitation techniques for a given piece of content. Based on this analysis, it can determine whether a piece of Active Content will potentially try to perform a malicious action or exploit a known vulnerability when loaded into the web browser. Then, in accordance with the pre-defined security policy, Finjan's security system decides whether the content is safe or unsafe for browsing.
Finjan's behavior-based technology protects you during the Window-of-Vulnerability™ - the period of time from when a new virus outbreak first occurs, until an anti-virus update or patch is delivered. Traditional anti-virus software leaves organizations exposed and vulnerable for days and sometimes for weeks, before a security patch is delivered. Instead of relying on reactive signature updates, heuristics or URL Filtering databases, Finjan provides proactive, zero-hour protection against new virus outbreaks and malicious code.
By leveraging this patented technology, Finjan SecureBrowsing is uniquely capable of detecting websites containing malicious content, many of which cannot be detected by other solutions.
Q. What is Finjan SecureBrowsing?
A. Finjan SecureBrowsing is an intuitive browser extension that checks links in search results and websites and warns you of potentially malicious links. Each link is marked as safe (green) or potentially dangerous (red).
Q. Which browsers are supported?
A. Currently Internet Explorer and Firefox are supported.
A. Finjan SecureBrowsing performs real-time code analysis of the current content on each of the rated web pages. Potentially malicious and undesirable behavior is detected, prompting an appropriate indication. Finjan SecureBrowsing detects potentially malicious webpages even if they have never been categorized or blacklisted. It detects potentially malicious code even when it has never been previously exposed, because it scans each and every piece of web content in real-time, regardless of its source.
Q. How do I benefit from Finjan SecureBrowsing?
A. While browsing the web, you come across numerous websites that use Active Content to enhance your web experience and capabilities. Active Content supports capabilities such as changing images when the mouse moves over them, popping up windows, displaying advertisements and supporting advance design elements. However, these capabilities are also used by hackers to change your system settings or even install Spyware applications. Finjan SecureBrowsing alerts you, before you visit these pages, to any potential malicious Active Content. This allows you to benefit from today's wealth of web capabilities without jeopardizing your PC and your private information.
Q. What types of threats are identified?
A. Finjan SecureBrowsing identifies potentially malicious code such as Spyware, hacking code viruses and code that tampers with your PC system settings. Such malicious code can even try to steal your private user name and passwords when you visit your on-line banking website. Finjan SecureBrowsing identifies all of these threats, in real time, by analyzing the behavior of active content that could be used maliciously (such as JavaScript, VB Script, ActiveX and Java applets).
Q. Frequently malicious web sites appear and vanish rapidly. What happens if I encounter such a short lived dedicated malicious web site that has just been publicized?
A. Finjan SecureBrowsing analyzes the website's behavior in real time, enabling the detection of these short-lived malicious sites without having to rely on history, blacklists, or reputation. Finjan SecureBrowsing analyzes the web content in its current state, thus any time the page you browse contains any type of malicious code, it will be detected, regardless of the time it appears on that page. Other tools, such as URL Filtering, rely on blacklists and historical rating and thus are unable to analyze website content in real time.
Q. What information do I receive on malicious web pages?
A. In addition to indicating whether a link is dangerous or not, Finjan SecureBrowsing also provides more detailed information. Just press the ‘More info' link on the SecureBrowsing information which appears next to the rating indication.
Information includes the type of potential malicious behavior detected, the category of the website, brief technical information such as the name of the Spyware that had been identified, and an option to report the URL to Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center (MCRC).
Q. How can a malicious webpage harm my computer?
A. Malicious webpages contain active content that may alter your PC settings and install Spyware, Adware, Trojans or other types of malicious code. The outcome of these attacks may compromise your private information, such as your on-line banking user name and password, and damage or crash your system.
Q. How many websites are mapped by Finjan SecureBrowsing?
A. Finjan SecureBrowsing uses a real time analysis method. This means that Finjan SecureBrowsing scans each URL showing in your browser as it currently exists on the web. Thus, there is no limit to the number of websites supported, and you are always assured of receiving a safety rating. Currently, for practical reasons (in order to keep a reasonable number of safe/unsafe indications on the screen), Finjan SecureBrowsing provides a safety indication for URLs showing in the most popular websites and search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, Digg, Wikipedia and Blogger.
Q. What happens if a website contained malicious code in the past, but now is ok?
A. While website categorization based rating would indicate that the site is malicious, Finjan SecureBrowsing's safety rating is based on real time malicious content detection. Hence the correct – green - indication would be displayed.
Q. How accurate is the indication I get?
A. Finjan SecureBrowsing is proven to be the most accurate dynamic malware sensor available. A ‘red' indication is provided only when suspicious code is detected.
Q. Who stands behind Finjan SecureBrowsing?
A. Finjan SecureBrowsing is delivered by Finjan, a leading provider of proactive web security solutions for enterprises and organizations. Finjan holds dozens of patents in the domains of malicious code detection and real-time content analysis. Finjan SecureBrowsing utilizes Finjan's award-winning Vital Security Web Appliance to analyze website content in real time.
Q: How is Finjan SecureBrowsing different than other available solutions?
A. Other solutions are based on URL filtering/categorization technology. URL categorization entails mapping the huge number of existing websites, and rating each site as ok or malicious. While this has obvious value, it also has a few major deficiencies:
- As there are hundreds of millions of websites and the number is constantly growing, it is impossible to map the entire WWW
- It typically takes days to weeks to map a new website. Some hacking and Phishing sites are short lived and vanish before they are even categorized.
- By its nature, the web is very dynamic with website content changing continuously - a URL that was safe when it was categorized might contain malicious code two hours later. Hackers are now taking advantage of this weak spot of URL categorization, trying to install malware on reputable URLs, such as MySpace and Wikipedia.
In contrast, Finjan SecureBrowsing scans the current content of each URL rather than looking it up on a database. Thus, there is no limit to the number of websites and links supported by Finjan and the rating provided by Finjan SecureBrowsing is always accurate and up to date.
Q: How is Finjan SecureBrowsing different than Finjan Vital Security Web Appliance?
A. While Finjan SecureBrowsing uses the same innovative real-time content inspection technology as that used by Finjan Vital Security Web Appliance, the two are completely different solutions. Finjan Vital Security Web Appliance uses a default security policy for enterprises that scans each and every request/reply made by the user. Finjan Vital Security Web Appliance also utilizes additional security technologies and inspection methods for various file types (image, audio/video, executable files, etc.) that are not being used by Finjan SecureBrowsing. Finjan Vital Security Web Appliances also utilizes content disarming technologies, where questionable code is turned into a non malicious code before the page is loaded to the user's browser.
Q: Can Finjan SecureBrowsing be a replacement for Finjan Vital Security Web Appliance?
A. No. Although Finjan SecureBrowsing uses the same innovative real-time content inspection technology as that used by Finjan Vital Security Web Appliance, it is not intended to serve as its replacement. Finjan SecureBrowsing increases the awareness of web-borne attacks by making them visible in the browser, while Finjan Vital Security Web Appliances provide the actual protection against such threats to businesses by blocking them at the gateway.
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