Overview of the Web Risk Cloud Service
Web Risk is a new enterprise security product from Google cloud that lets your client applications check URLs against Google’s constantly updated lists of unsafe web resources. Web Risk contains information on over a million unsafe URLs and is kept up to date by examining billions of URLs every day.
Social engineering sites, such as phishing and deceptive sites, and sites that host malware or unwanted software are examples of unsafe web resources. Any URL found on this list is regarded as dangerous. Google makes every effort to provide the most accurate and up-to-date information about dangerous web resources. however, Google does not guarantee that its information is complete and error-free: some risky sites may not be identified, and some safe sites may be classified incorrectly.
There are two API’s that the customers can use namely,
a) The Lookup API,
b) The Update API.
Lookup API
The Lookup API lets your client applications send URLs to the Web Risk server to check their status. This API is simple and easy to use.
Update API
The Update API lets your client applications download and store hashed versions of the unsafe lists in a local database, and check them locally. Only if a match is found in the local database does the client need to send a request to the Web Risk servers to verify whether the URL is included on the unsafe lists. This API is more complex to implement than the Lookup API, but enables local lookups in most cases so it’s faster.
What more! Just go ahead to subscribe to this service and prevent users from posting infected URLs to your site or sharing malicious links on your platform.