Use cases
Military use case
- Secure communication networks: Ensures only safe, approved websites are accessible, preventing cyber threats on classified communication networks.
- Field device protection: Shields mobile devices used in field operations from accessing potentially dangerous sites, ensuring data security even in remote or high-risk areas.
- Intelligence gathering: Protects personnel from phishing and spoofed sites that mimic genuine sources of intelligence, ensuring only verified data sources are used.
Government use case
- Public sector IT infrastructure: Ensures only safe, approved websites are accessible, preventing cyber threats on classified communication networks.
- Citizen service portals: Shields mobile devices used in field operations from accessing potentially dangerous sites, ensuring data security even in remote or high-risk areas.
- Critical infrastructure: Protects systems within critical infrastructure departments (e.g., power, water, and transportation) from being compromised by phishing and malicious sites, which could lead to national security risks.
API-based use case
- Custom app integration: Integrate with custom applications used by enterprises to ensure in-app browsing or any external links open only safe and verified sites, protecting the user experience.
- Corporate network protection: Corporations can integrate the API into their internal networks, automatically blocking access to flagged URLs in real-time, ensuring company-wide data security.
- Financial services: Fintech applications can use the API to scan links in customer communications, preventing fraudulent transactions by identifying and blocking access to malicious websites
- Firewall integration: Integrate with custom applications and appliances used in corporate, government and national infrastructure to block unauthorised, categorised sites from being accessed.
Browser extension use case
- Personal internet browsing: Individuals can use a browser extension for real-time blocking of malicious sites, adding a layer of security to their everyday internet use.
- Enterprise extension: Large organizations can deploy the extension across all employee browsers, enforcing security policies and preventing accidental access to compromised sites.
- Parental control: Families can use the extension to ensure children are shielded from dangerous or inappropriate sites, offering peace of mind for parents concerned about online safety. Parent notifications allow parents to engage in proactive conversations based on the content their children are trying to access.
These use cases demonstrate the versatility of a security API across sectors and highlight the importance of protecting sensitive data from cyber threats in both high-stakes and everyday scenarios.
Educational institutions
- Safe online learning environments: Blocks students from accessing harmful sites during online classes or remote learning, ensuring a safe digital space.
- Controlled research browsing: Allows students and researchers to access only educational or research-approved websites, reducing distractions and maintaining focus.
- School network protection: Integrates into school IT systems to prevent phishing attempts targeting students and staff, safeguarding personal data and school networks.
Healthcare sector
- Electronic Health Record (EHR) security: Prevents healthcare professionals from accidentally accessing compromised sites that could introduce malware to EHR systems, protecting sensitive patient information.
- Telemedicine platforms: Integrates with telemedicine applications to ensure patients and healthcare providers only access secure, verified websites, preventing phishing during online consultations.
- Medical device security: Protects connected medical devices in hospitals from accessing potentially dangerous sites, maintaining network integrity and patient safety.
Financial institutions
- Transaction verification: Scans URLs in transactional communications (like emails or text messages) to block phishing links before customers or employees access them.
- Fraud prevention in banking apps: Integrates into mobile and web banking applications to prevent users from being redirected to fake banking sites, enhancing trust and security.
- Investment platforms: Protects users on trading platforms from malicious links, ensuring that sensitive financial data and accounts are secure from threats.
Retail and E-Commerce
- Safe checkout processes: Ensures customers are not redirected to malicious websites during payment, protecting their financial information and reducing abandoned checkouts due to security concerns.
- Internal system protection: Retail companies can block employee access to malicious sites on internal systems, securing POS (point of sale) and ERP systems from cyber threats.
- Affiliate link verification: Protects e-commerce platforms that work with affiliates by scanning and blocking any flagged URLs, ensuring users are not exposed to harmful sites through ads or external links.
Human resources and recruitment
- Remote work security: Prevents remote employees from accessing dangerous sites on company-provided devices, maintaining security across distributed teams.
- Talent acquisition platforms: Protects job seekers from phishing attempts by scanning and blocking fake job posting links, creating a safer job search environment.
- Candidate verification systems: Integrates with platforms to secure sensitive candidate data, ensuring that recruiters and employers are accessing only secure sites when evaluating backgrounds.
Social media and content platforms
- User-generated content screening: Screens links shared by users on social media, forums, and chat platforms, blocking access to harmful sites and maintaining a safe community.
- Ad network security: Verifies ads to block redirects to malicious sites, ensuring that users interact only with safe advertisements.
- Influencer marketing platforms: Protects users from unsafe URLs shared by influencers, helping maintain a secure experience on social platforms and safeguarding brands’ reputations.
Small business and freelancers
- Website security for small businesses: Integrates with website builders to automatically block malicious links, ensuring small businesses don’t unintentionally link to harmful sites.
- Freelance project platforms: Ensures freelancers are not exposed to phishing attempts by blocking suspicious project or client links, creating a secure gig marketplace.
- Client communication: Scans links in client emails and messages, helping small businesses and freelancers avoid scams or malicious websites during project discussions.
Public use and internet cafes
- Public Wi-Fi protection: Integrates with public Wi-Fi systems to block malicious sites, protecting users’ devices in places like cafes, libraries, and airports.
- Library networks: Protects library networks from potentially harmful sites, ensuring patrons browse safely while using public computers.
- Internet cafe security: Prevents access to dangerous websites on public computers, safeguarding users from malware and other online threats.
Telecommunications
- ISP-level filtering: Integrates with internet service providersto provide subscribers with automatic filtering of harmful sites, creating a safer browsing experience for end users.
- Carrier-based security for mobile: Telco providers can offer API-enabled website filtering as an add-on for mobile users, blocking malicious sites to enhance user safety.
- 5G and IoT network security: Protects IoT devices connected through telecommunications networks from accidentally connecting to unsafe websites, improving the security of connected devices.
Enterprise IT and Managed Service Providers (MSPs)
- Endpoint security: Adds a layer of protection to managed devices, ensuring employees can only access safe websites and reducing exposure to cyber threats.
- Phishing protection for employee emails: Integrates with email systems to scan URLs, blocking malicious links within emails and improving phishing defenses.
- BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) compliance: Extends to personal devices used in corporate settings, blocking unsafe websites and maintaining security standards on all devices.
Cloud and SaaS applications
- Secure SaaS acces: Integrates with cloud-based applicationsto prevent users from accidentally visiting malicious links within shared documents or communication channels.
- Cross-app security: Ensures that links shared between SaaS apps (like project management or CRM tools) are scanned and secure, maintaining a safe work environment.
- Data center protection: Helps secure cloud data centers fromthreats that could arise from external URLs, protecting sensitive data and infrastructure from malicious traffic.
These additional use cases highlight the versatility of a security API in multiple settings, from safeguarding individual users and small businesses to protecting large organizations, government bodies, and critical infrastructure.
Consumer, corporate and government scam calls
- Commonly called remote access scams, scammers pretend to be from well-known organisations such as JIO, Airtel, BSNL, eBay, Amazon, banks, government organisations, police, and computer and IT support organisations. They create a sense of urgency to make you give them access to your computer via remote access software
- System hi-jacking protection: Blocks and notifies users from scam calls trying to gain access to users computers remotely using commonly available software like Anydesk and Teamviewer. The number of these attacks are growing all the time.
Country wide API-based use case
- Custom API integration: Integrate with custom applications and appliances used by national internet traffic providers to ensure any user browsing or any external links open only safe and verified sites, protecting the user experience and blocking any websites categorised / determined to be inappropriate or banned content.
- Multi website categorisation protection: URL categories are determined by individual countries and by google. Re-categorisation of websites allow dynamic interface to align access control to URL’s within government policies. Policies and categorisation can occur at the highest level or at a lower state level if required.