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Nighthawk Cyber Security Platform

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In the quest for a crash course in all things blockchain, at the end of 2020 I made the—some might say “crazy”—decision to work exclusively with organizations in the crypto space. I was on a mission to soak up knowledge and immerse myself in this digital frontier, and turned to my network to find the ultimate blockchain sensei. Through a series of connections, I was introduced to the wonderful Matt Marx, Co-Founder and CEO of PhishFort, the leading cybersecurity firm in the space.

It just so happened that PhishFort was in need of a UX/UI designer. Though their coffers couldn’t quite match my current paycheck, we made a deal: PhishFort would pay me what they could, and in return, I’d design their new open source product while Matt served as my blockchain mentor.

Our unique partnership launched a wild ride that led to meeting brilliant artists, celebrities, and giants of the crypto world, and making life-long friends in the process—but those are stories for another time. Right now, we’re talking about Nighthawk.

On the surface, Nighthawk is a simple browser plug-in that tells you if the website you’re visiting is safe and, if needed, swoops in to protect you from venturing into treacherous digital lands.

Beneath its unassuming exterior, Nighthawk is a platform for tech-savvy superheroes, united by the common cause of protecting the community from bad actors, to identify and neutralize threats.

The Create an Account screen that users are directed to after installing the Nighthawk Chrome browser plugin from the Google Play store.
After creating an account, the user is prompted to pin the Nighthawk plugin indicator to their browser. Once pinned to a user’s browser, it’s easy to glance at the pinned icon to check the trustworthiness of the site being visited.
This is an example of the panel that will appear when a signed out user clicks on the Nighthawk icon on their browser while visiting a trusted site.
Users may report a malicious site through the panel that appears when clicking on the Nighthawk browser icon, or they can visit the Nighthawk portal and submit their report through the portal form.
Users can mark sites as trusted so that the Nighthawk browser icon will turn green for these sites, and the signed in user have an indication if someone has spoofed a site they trust.

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