CERT NZ Phishing Disruption Service (PDS) feed

CERT NZ is the NZ government’s Computer Emergency Response Team. They help organisations and individuals build resilience against cyber security threats with trusted information and advice, and a deep understanding of New Zealand’s threat landscape.

In 2022, CERT NZ released their Phishing Disruption Service (PDS) to a group of NZ cyber security companies, including SMX. The Phishing Disruption Service provides a list of high-confidence, NZ-specific phishing indicators or “fingerprints” that organisations can act on to protect their staff, customers, and users.

SMX has worked with Cert NZ to integrate their Phishing Disruption Service (PDS) into our email security-based products, providing our customers with yet another layer of defence against phishing.

When SMX scans incoming email, we analyse the email looking for Phishing indicators provided by the Phishing Disruption Service. If we have match that means we’ve detected a phishing email which we then block from entering your organisation.

Nothing at all. SMX is enabling the PDS feed on all customer accounts on Secure Email Gateway or SMX 365, starting November 2023.

Nothing at all. SMX is enabling the PDS feed on all customer accounts on Secure Email Gateway or SMX 365 - starting November 2023.

The PDS feed is a zero-cost upgrade. SMX is committed to delivering the best filtering service for our customers and integrating CERT NZ’s PDS feed enables us to do that.

PDS is designed to detect and block known phishing emails. Our experience has shown that while the vast majority of malicious emails are detected by our multi-layered commercial engines, the PDS feed does detect localised, NZ based phishing emails. This provides additional phishing protection for our customers in New Zealand.

CERT NZ received submissions from various sources, including New Zealand and overseas partners and New Zealanders themselves who have received phishing emails. All indicators in the CERT NZ PDS database verified by CERT NZ and are based on real-world attacks.

You can send them to SMX’s customer success team via emailsupport@smxemail.com

Currently, CERT NZ only provides the PDS feed to New Zealand-based cybersecurity companies. This means global players such as Microsoft, Google etc aren’t likely to provide this New Zealand-specific feed for their customers, and SMX is the only cyber security company with a focus on email to be able to provide the CERT NZ PDS service.

You can find out more on the CERT NZ PDS here: https://www.cert.govt.nz/about/phishing-disruption-service/

You can send them to SMX’s customer success team via emailsupport@smxemail.com