Phishing vs AI: When the Cloud company Twilio acquired SendGrid for $ 2 billion, many wondered what the move was about.
Of course it was not just about sending emails from the SendGrid platform. Immediately after its acquisition, Twilio became one of the largest companies in the corporate battle against phishing.
Phishing has been around since the early days of email, and due to its increasing sophistication, the method continues to be a very significant threat to networks of businesses.
According to some estimates, phishing attacks cost businesses an average of $ 1,6 million per attack.
Twilio's SendGrid approach uses AI to stop electronics messages phishing before reaching the end user's inbox.
With the Twilio SendGrid platform you can send emails for purchase confirmations, instructions resetof passwords or messages for an upcoming sale. Developers and marketers use SendGrid to build, segment, test, and deliver emails.
The company, for its part, says it processes more than 50 billion emails every month, and because of that scale, it was able to train a system TensorFlow machine learning called Phisherman. The system can "catch" phish before they reach the customer.
TensorFlow is the bookcase machine learning and open source, which has become one of the most popular platforms for building machine learning and deep learning applications.
With Phisherman, the Twilio SendGrid platform uses a trained neural network to determine when an email can be considered phish. The system uses comparisons to detect patterns in large datasets from a huge variety of mail, which are then compared to a model designed to isolate phish messages from regular emails.
Thanks to Phisherman, the company states that its platform offers 99,7% security.
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