Iconix Issued Ninth U.S. Patent for Email
ICONIX, Inc. announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued Patent 10,063,545, titled "Rapid Identification of Message Authentication" on August 28, 2018. This is Iconix's ninth U.S. patent and extends email authentication to provide a "visual ID" for messages.
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept.04, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- ICONIX, Inc., the industry leader in visual email solutions, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued Iconix's ninth patent titled "Rapid Identification of Message Authentication." The abstract for U.S. Patent 10,063,545, dated August 28, 2018, states: "Techniques are presented for uniquely identifying authentication associated with messages. A message is inspected for sender or domain identifying information associated with a sender of the message or a sender's domain. The identifying information is authenticated, and if authentication, then distinctive metadata is associated with the message. The distinctive metadata is presented or played in connection with the message for purposes of readily identifying the authentication."
Technology from this patent is used in all of the Iconix® offerings, including the Iconix Truemark® service, which helps protect consumer users from phishing attacks, and Iconix SP Guard™, which helps protect enterprises from spear-phishing attacks. Truemark and SP Guard give users an intuitive "visual ID" for email messages, thus allowing them to quickly assess the legitimacy of messages. The result is increased trust and confidence in email and increased safety for users and businesses.
Prof. Arun Vishwanath, Iconix's Science Advisor, has affiliations with Harvard University and the University at Buffalo. His research focuses on improving individual, organizational, and national resilience to cyber attacks by focusing on the weakest links in cyber security—human users.
Prof. Vishwanath's research has been presented to principals of national security and law enforcement agencies around the world. He has authored dozens of peer-reviewed academic papers as well as presented his research at leading venues from BlackHat to the Johns Hopkins APL, the US Senate, and the US Army Cyber Institute. Prof. Vishwanath's research has also been featured on CNN, Wired Magazine, USA Today, Politico, and hundreds of other national and international news outlets.
Prof. Vishwanath said: "Spearphishing continues to be the primary vector used by threat actors to affect compromises. These attacks leverage freely available email technology to manipulate the victims' behavior. My research has established that the way people cognitively process and use email makes them susceptible to these manipulation techniques. So anyone, even technical experts, can fall victim to spear phishing."
"Following many high-profile breaches in government and industry, consumers, businesses and government organizations are on heightened alert regarding fake email messages and attacks on their personal or organization's information," said Jose Picazo, CEO of ICONIX. "We know from security research that more than 90% of breaches start with a fake email message, and users are left nearly helpless to figure out which messages they can trust. The two main defensive approaches – better filtering and better training – have proven to be insufficient since malicious messages still get through and users are still duped by them. By putting icons next to messages in the inbox, we give users a quick and easy way to discern real from fake, protecting them and their organization from harm. Ultimately we're trying to improve the entire email experience by making it quicker and safer for everyone."
More information about Prof. Vishwanath is available at https://www.buffalo.edu/cas/communication/faculty/vishwanath.html
About ICONIX, Inc.
ICONIX, Inc. is the leading provider of trusted email identification solutions. ICONIX provides the industry's first visual trust solution for businesses and consumers. The patented Iconix® SP Guard™ solution enables email recipients to quickly identify messages from legitimate senders, which proactively combats email-based attacks. Without SP Guard, personnel receiving spearphishing emails are left to guess whether the email should be trusted. That guesswork is made in a decision space that is manipulated by the attacker. With SP Guard installed, IT is able to provide personnel with real-time identification of trusted senders. For more information, visit http://www.iconix.com.
Iconix, Truemark, the Iconix logo and the Check-lock icon are registered trademarks in the United States and Iconix, Check-lock, the Iconix logo, SP Guard, the Iconix enabled logo, and the Check-lock icon are trademarks or service marks of ICONIX, Inc.
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