PHISHGUARD

PhishGuard is an advanced, end-to-end automated phishing email detection system that bridges the gap between passive email filtering and proactive user alerting. It monitors a user’s inbox in real-time, analyzes every incoming email using a dual-engine approach, and instantly alerts the user of potential threats via desktop notifications — before the user interacts with a malicious message. The system’s core philosophy is a “dual-engine defense”: no single method is relied upon alone. A traditional Rule-Based heuristic engine handles known indicators quickly, while a Deep Learning Neural Network provides probabilistic, context-aware classification that generalizes to zero-day threats and previously unseen phishing campaigns.