Report: The Dark Side of Phishing Protection

The article summarizes a LayerX report that documents a sharp rise in phishing (citing a 61% increase in attacks, 83% of organizations affected, and an 1100% increase in phishing URLs on SaaS platforms), identifies protection blind spots across email delivery, social engineering, and web-based credential theft, and evaluates three defenses—page reputation analysis, browser emulation, and browser deep session inspection—recommending browser deep session inspection to detect and neutralize phishing within the browser in real time.