Thanks for the questions.
Okay, just to give some background info so as to help explain a little better... we currently run an existing malware removal company (
https://www.onehoursitefix.com) that owners of websites come to when they find their site has been hacked. So they sign up with us at the OneHourSiteFix service and we clean their website from all infections (plus remove hacker backdoors, control panels, etc). Once the website is clean we place it behind our SharkGate Cloud-based web application firewall. So our current firewall is a centralized model, blocking millions of hack attempts every month. As well as our SharkGate firewall we also have an existing SharkGate plugin that can be installed on websites and aids our protection services by providing file modification, etc data directly from the site.
The future.... we are now moving to a model where websites are protected by the decentralized ecosystem. So to place a site behind the SharkGate protection, the websites will need to install the 'SharkGate Plugin'. This is just a small application that can be really easily installed on a site with just a few clicks. For example on a Wordpress website (which about 30% of all the websites in the World are) it takes about 1 minutes to install (
https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/step-by-step-guide-to-install-a-wordpress-plugin-for-beginners/). So there is a very low barrier to entry for site owners. Actually, one of the key parts of our roadmap is to make sure this plugin is available in all the popular plugin directories for websites. Plus we will get hosting companies to recommend and guide owners through installing this plugin too. We have good links with hosting companies (due to being in this business for the last x years) so we will be working on having hosting companies even install our plugin by default on new sites. It is very beneficial for hosting companies to use something like this, so it is a win for them to as it causes them a nightmare is websites on their servers are hacked (due to issues such as cross-site contamination, hackers mining installations taking up all server resources, etc)
Once the SharkGate plugin is installed on a website it will provide unrivaled hacker protection to a website, plus runs a 24/7 malware scanner (so basically recreating and building on our experience from our centralized model of keeping websites clean). The plugin will use the collective intelligence of the SharkGate AI (“Deep Sea”) and the SharkGate Website Threat Defence Database (“WTDD”). With site owners recommended to and installing the plugin themselves this also allows us to scale the take up of this solution. So this helps resolve any resource issues :-D
Websites using the SharkGate plugin will automatically provide threat data of attacks their site has received and malware found to the SharkGate ecosystem. A simple example would be ... imagine a site using the 'SharkGate Plugin' is attacked by a hacker network that attempts a dictionary attack (20K logins on a website). The SharkGate plugin would block this attack for that site but also analyze the attack and send relevant threat details about that attack to the network. For example, say all these attacks came from a certain set of hacked sites on the AWS network and the hacker scripts had made a simple mistake on the UserAgent (missing bracket from the user agent string for that browser - that sort of silly mistake in hacker scripts happens more often than one would imagine). The plugin would feed that info back into the SharkGate data stores and AI so rules would be created to protect all other sites on the network from the same attack and the website owner would be compensated for helping grow the network of protection for all sites. Okay, this is a very simplified example but I hope it helps show the process.
Ah, that turned into a very long answer, sorry for that :-) any questions or clarifications needed please don't hesitate to ask.