The PDS is designed to strengthen New Zealand’s cyber resilience against phishing by stopping it before it causes widespread harm.
How the PDS works
New Zealand and overseas partners provide phishing indicators to NCSC, which are then verified before being distributed via an application programming interface (API) to subscribers.
This source of high-confidence phishing indictors can then be used by disruption partners to protect their:
- staff,
- customers, and
- users.
The service can be integrated with other systems and platforms to increase an organisation’s resilience against phishing attempts.
The PDS can also be used alongside commercial threat intelligence tools to defend against the full spectrum of cyber threats faced by New Zealand organisations.
Companies that monitor and manage security systems on behalf of clients use the PDS to protect their customers from phishing campaigns. While individual organisations can apply to subscribe to the API, for most customers the easiest option is to talk to your managed security systems provider about integrating with the service.
You can find more information on how to integrate with the PDS directly on the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s API portal.
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Notify us of suspicious phishing emails
The more indicators we receive, the more phishing attempts can be blocked.
The NCSC is interested in hearing about new phishing campaigns that making their way into people’s inboxes without being caught by existing filters, and especially if they succeed in capturing people’s details.
Forward any email you suspect to be a phishing email to us at phishpond@ops.ncsc.govt.nz.