User credential detection

With phishing being a significant attack vector, user education is a very hot topic in many corporations’ cybersecurity awareness programs. Being able to prevent users from sharing their credentials on an untrusted website is a good second line of defense in case a user is tricked into submitting credentials to a malicious site.

As you can see in the following screenshot, in the URL filtering security profile, there is a column called USER CREDENTIAL SUBMISSION. Any categories set to block will not allow users to submit credentials.

A user will not be allowed to log on if a site is categorized as belonging to the malware category and if malware is set to block for USER CREDENTIAL SUBMISSION.

Any category set to continue will first warn the user that they are submitting credentials to a site and will require acknowledgment of their actions. Any category set to alert (with logging) or allow will let the user submit their credentials:

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