Belgian Anti Phishing Shield
The Belgian Anti-Phishing Shield (BAPS) is a Centre for Cyber Security Belgium (CCB) initiative. This is a system that warns the Internet user in the event of browsing on fraudulent or malicious websites.
BAPS redirects the Internet user to a warning page when browsing these sites. The action is taken at the Belgian DNS level. This is done after a thorough analysis of the site by the CCB.
Each time a user clicks on a link, a DNS request is sent to the Internet Service Provider (ISP). Using BAPS protection, the ISP's DNS server compares the website the user is trying to access with a list of malicious websites. If the requested website is on this list, the ISP's DNS server redirects the user to a warning page.
- The CCB receives information about potentially malicious sites
- Analysis of potentially malicious websites
- The list of malicious websites is transmitted to ISPs
- User clicks on malicious website
- The ISP checks if the site that is the subject of the DNS request is on the list of malicious websites
- Warning page
- The Internet user does not visit the malicious site.