Fintech security company Aton announced on the 26th that it will supply a malicious text pre-blocking platform to Nice D&A. Aton is a specialized solution provider for KISA's (Korea Internet & Security Agency) malicious text pre-blocking system and will officially launch related businesses starting with this supply.
Special telecommunications carriers that send large volumes of texts on behalf of companies must obtain transmission qualification certification and establish a malicious text pre-blocking system in accordance with the regulations implemented in April. To maintain business registration, they must automatically detect and block risk factors such as malicious URLs at the text sending stage. Nice D&A will adopt Aton's platform to meet these requirements.
Aton's platform consists of 'BUF (Bad URL Farm),' which operates on the cloud, and 'MTQS,' installed in the text sending system. BUF determines in real time whether links included in texts are risky based on malicious URL information provided by KISA. MTQS filters out prohibited words such as gambling and loans, as well as blocked numbers.
The platform can meet the requirements for blocking prohibited words and URLs for transmission qualification certification by connecting to existing text sending systems without replacing them. It also provides functions to view blocked texts and reasons for blocking, and to save reports. Aton explained that it designed the system so that adding inspection features does not affect text sending speed and operates the service 24/7.
Aton is supplying its phishing and smishing detection service 'Defenders' to telecommunications companies and financial institutions based on malicious URL data secured through partnerships with global security companies and self-collection. This expands the detection scope from a focus on existing user downtime to the text sending stage. In addition to Nice D&A, Aton is negotiating platform adoption with multiple text transmission carriers.
Aton CEO Woo Gil-su said, "Malicious text pre-blocking has become a basic requirement for internet text sending carriers to maintain their services," and added, "We will support them in meeting these requirements without compromising sending quality."
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