How Sapher Shield works
Sapher Shield works tirelessly to ensure your online safety.
Our 24-hour detection system searches for suspicious activity and analyses unusual online behaviour, providing real-time alerts and empowering you to respond immediately.
Making the internet Sapher Shield for everyone
Traditional security measures are struggling to keep pace.
They can prevent known cyberthreats effectively, but with over 450,000 new ones emerging daily1, we need more than antivirus and a VPN to combat today’s sophisticated cyber threats.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has largely facilitated this staggering volume of threats which cybercriminals use to create harder to detect scams and exploit vulnerabilities at speed and scale.
Our solution provides a single, central endpoint security management platform, complementing traditional tools to provide comprehensive protection against these advanced AI-driven threats. Once you see Sapher in action, you’ll wonder how you lived without it!
- An intuitive, easy to navigate dashboard
- Real-time notifications about potential threats as you browse
- No disruption to your device’s performance or storage capacity
- Greater awareness of the number of threats encountered in daily internet use that you previously weren’t notified of
- Full control over whether you want to proceed to potentially risky websites we alert you to
Sapher Shield's comprehensive protection features
Being proactive is necessary to defend against the growing AI-driven threats evading traditional defenses. Sapher’s features combine to grant users dynamic and intelligent protection against the relentless tide of cyber risk we encounter through websites, emails, attachments, and links.
Technical breakdown of Sapher Shield's inner workings
Data logic
We use business rules to continuously monitor and examine vast amounts of data from various sources. Business rules are carefully crafted guidelines that automatically analyse incoming data based on expert knowledge and industry best practices. They allow us to quickly spot patterns and anomalies that could indicate a cyber threat without relying on machine learning artificial intelligence.
We gather information from many sources, including:
- Monitoring your internet traffic for unusual patterns and suspicious activity.
- How you use your device and noticing behaviour that deviates from the norm.
- Multiple cybersecurity databases.
- Your activity history.
- Lists of known threats by cross-referencing blacklists and threat databases.
- Monitoring social media feeds for trends, emerging threats and scams.
Identifying threats, patterns and anomalies indicative of malicious activity on the Dark Web.
Technical breakdown of Sapher Shield inner workings
We evaluate the websites you visit to ensure they are safe and trustworthy. We use objective, quantifiable data and recognise common tactics scammers use to determine an unbiased and factual assessment.
We gather information from many sources, including:
- The website’s address (URL) structure.
- Suspicious information like inconsistencies, typos, misspellings, repetition and specific keywords in page titles and meta descriptions.
- How page elements behave, e.g., auto-refreshing, running data access scripts, pop-ups, loading speed, and where links lead.
- Verify the authenticity and validity of a site’s security certificates.
- We compare sites to known safe or dangerous websites from our databases.
We then aggregate these data points to determine a web page’s safety status definitively. Because we check and record many things simultaneously, Sapher Shield detects and responds almost instantly.
We protect your personal information and warn you of threats without slowing you down or invading your privacy.
- Sapher Shield doesn’t require any of your personal information to operate.
- By using objective and definitive data points, Sapher Shield is very precise and rarely makes mistakes about whether a site is safe.
- Sapher Shield keeps records of why a site is flagged as dangerous. You can always check our reasoning.
No VPN required
VPN is the acronym for a Virtual Private Network, a secure, encrypted connection service for internet use. It allows users to send and receive data anonymously via a private network.
While Sapher Shield doesn’t interfere with a VPN if you use one, you don’t need one with the Sapher browser extension installed. This creates a few benefits:
- Users’ internet speed will improve without the need to reroute traffic through VPN servers
- VPNs log user data. Sapher Shield does not require access to users’ local files or browsing histories. We focus on real-time analysis of web interactions and objective data and nothing more.
Why choose Sapher?
Sapher was born from personal experience with online fraud, motivating our founders to create a team and develop a solution that makes professional-grade cybersecurity available to everyday users.
Protecting our personal information online has become increasingly complex. However, effective online protection shouldn’t be a luxury item or require technical expertise. Sapher responds to this challenge in our refreshingly simple yet highly effective solution that other cybersecurity companies can’t offer in one product.
We’re driven by a vision that goes beyond software. Our goal is to reshape the internet, making individual cybercrime a rarity rather than a norm. We reject the idea that falling victim to online threats is an unavoidable part of internet use. We’re acutely aware of the human cost behind cybercrime statistics – the financial hardships, emotional distress, and disrupted lives. We’re working to decrease the number of people who suffer each year because of data breaches and identity theft by providing advanced and accessible protection.