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Traditional email security response often relies on manual, complex rule sets that can miss sophisticated scams. We need to take a different approach. Our pilot program uses AI-assisted software called Sublime to analyze an email's context, intent, and visual elements to help catch malicious content before it can do any harm.
Core Benefits
No More Guesswork for You: You no longer need to spend time second-guessing suspicious messages in your inbox. The software automatically analyzes links, logos, and email context to flag or quarantine dangerous messages, giving you a heads-up before you accidentally click a bad email.
Faster Response & Feedback: When you or a colleague report a suspicious email, the automated platform analyzes it in seconds. Reported messages are routed into a pipeline (with human oversight) for analysis. The reporting user receives timely feedback.
A Safer Campus Network: Security is a community effort. As more people sign up, Sublime gets a clearer picture of the specific phishing trends targeting UC Berkeley. This helps protect everyone by enabling faster detection of campus-wide attack campaigns.
Privacy First
Privacy is a key focus of our rollout. We have established strict safeguards to ensure your communications remain private:
Least Perusal Principle: Automated systems perform the initial scanning. Security staff review email content only if a message is flagged as dangerous. This actually reduces overall human viewing of emails compared to our traditional manual investigation process.
Data is kept within Berkeley Systems: Email analysis stays local to our environment and is not sent off to centralized third-party servers.
No AI Model Training on Your Data: Campus email content is strictly prohibited from being used to train third-party or external large language models (LLMs).
Complete Transparency & Oversight: Every decision Sublime makes provides explicit, plain-language reasoning that campus security teams can audit.
Implementation Plan
To ensure both safety and top-notch performance, our platform will launch a pilot with rigorous approval checkpoints. Stay tuned for updates as we strive to deliver the best experience possible.
