The Internet has brought unparalleled benefits to the distance between people and countries, making the virtual world feel almost like reality. However, it is sad that some people use this physical distance to steal things. Spammers, phishers, cyber thieves, etc. take advantage of the fact that it is difficult to monitor online activities or events. However, IP geolocation data can help companies and organizations understand the nature of attacks, deter them, and help conduct network investigations to hold criminals accountable. IP-based geolocation is the most commonly used technology to track IP location, and it can achieve the desired purpose well.
The ability to determine the location of an IP address makes an IP geolocator a useful tool for threat intelligence. It is important to know that the determined address may not always be accurate, because the attacker may use a virtual private network (VPN) and other tools to block or change the attacker's real IP address. Therefore, in such a situation, the determined address may be misleading. However, this does not prevent IP geolocators from finding the credibility and ability of the attacker.
Using IP geolocation, the country and postal code of the attacker can be accurately determined. Although it is impossible to know the exact house number or specific source of intellectual property rights, as long as you know the country and city, you can get a lot of information. The police or any constituted authority can contact the Internet Service Provider (ISP) to obtain geographic data, network address translation (NAT) mapping, and other event logs to confirm time and fraud. The ISP can obtain the media access control (MAC) of the host from there, which is unique to the host in the entire network, and they can use this MAC to track the computer. In the case of registered users and ISPs, the real name of the user or host can be obtained. Therefore, although the process may be lengthy, it shows the possibility of using IP-based geolocation tools to intercept criminals.
It can also be used for email security to prevent phishing. By tracking IP strings to a geographic area, the Security Operations Center (SOC) can take speculative and preventive measures to protect the employees of the organization from phishing. Geographical data can be used to set up the email protocol of the service provider to mark mail from specific devices and IP network blocks as spam. The result of this is that employees become more cautious and avoid downloading attachments from marked sources through the company's system network.
It is often seen that people are deceived by suspicious phishing attacks, and therefore blackmailed. In the case of a user succumbing to a phishing attempt, it is possible to save him or her from being deceived before it is too late. This system is used when complex platforms perceive unusual parameters and activities on customer accounts. Through IP geolocation analysis, an e-commerce platform can request to send an OTP code to a registered mobile phone number, or make a call when it finds that the user's location on the platform network is not the usual location to confirm the ownership of the account. In this case, when the user asks the user to send detailed information to the phone number, it is difficult for phishers to break into the accounts of others.
In addition, in distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks, IP geolocation can help discover and analyze the data of attacking IPs in different locations. Real-time insights can obtain malicious IP addresses that determine geographic spatial locations of latitude and longitude. Based on its location, the ISP can take further actions to detect the only host or block a large number of attackers to reduce the impact of DDOS attacks, even if the attack is ongoing. The slow down process may create a black hole-in this system, a certain amount of location-based IP will be absorbed from the network system.
In short, IP geolocation is a related tool that can be used for network security and threat intelligence and control. It can not only be used to identify the location of an attacker, but through some other steps, the attacker can be found and held accountable, and it can also help organizations prevent Phishing and protecting email from malicious geolocation IP, of course, there are other benefits.