INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
MetaCert, founded by Paul Walsh, originally began as a way to watch chat rooms for fake Ethereum scams
Walsh, who was an early experimenter in cryptocurrencies, grew frustrated when he saw hackers dumping fake links into chat rooms, resulting
in users regularly losing cash to scammers.
Now Walsh has expanded his software to email
A new product built for email, available here, will show little green or red shields next to links, confirming that a link is what it
A fake link would appear red while a real PayPal link, say, would appear green
The plugin works with Apple Mail app on the iPhone.
&The system utilizes the MetaCert Protocol infrastructure/registry,& said Walsh
&It contains 10 billion classified URLs
This is at the core of almetl of MetaCert products and services
It a single API that used to protect over 1 million crypto people on Telegram via a security bot and it the same API that powers the
integration that turned off phishing for the crypto world in 2017
Even when links are shortened MetaCert unfurls them until it finds the real destination site, and then checks the Protocol to see if it
verified, unknown or classified as phishing
It does all this in less that 300ms.&
Walsh is also working on a system to scan for Fake News in the wild using a similar technology to his
The company is raising currently and is working on a utility token.
Walsh sees his first customers as enterprise and expects IT shops to
implement the software to show employees which links are allowed, i.e
company or partner links, and which ones are bad.
&It likely we will approach this top down and bottom up, which is unusual for enterprise
But ours is an enterprise service that anyone can install on their phone in less than a minute,& he said
&SMEs isn&t typically a target market for email security companies but we believe we can address this massive market with a solution that
not scary to setup and expensive to support
More research is required though, to see if our hypothesis is right.&
&With MetaCert security, training is reduced to a single sentence
‘if it doesn&t have a green shield, assume it not safe,& & said Walsh.
