diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index d16c963..4254e56 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,8 +1,12 @@ # PiSec A lightweight, efficiency-oriented anti phishing tool +![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7256185/188719539-b9a7f25e-ed16-472a-afaa-cf5b47de941e.png) + + PiSec is a network security tool that provides active protection from phishing, blocking the navigation to a suspectedly malicious link. + Phishing is one of the most used attacks in Computer Security: It occurs when an attacker tricks a user into handing over sensitive data such as passwords, credit card numbers and so on. It usually begins with an e-mail containing a URL leading to a malicious website that closely resembles an authoritative one. @@ -12,6 +16,8 @@ The implementation is based on a mixed approach, leveraging a proxy installed on While the cloud server manages the entire set of URLs considered malicious, the proxy manages the user connectivity. The proxy is a lightweight component that should run on minimalistic hardware (such as a Raspberry Pi) and should provide high performance with minimal impact on network bandwidth and latency. +![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7256185/188719488-7e6addf1-58a1-4823-8114-f892a8845b74.png) + This project is composed by 3 main components, present in this repository as submodules: - PiSec Brain: the main server that manages the central repository of URLs considered malicious. The storage layer is implemented using Elasticsearch (https://www.elastic.co/).