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# 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.

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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/).
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