Your domain is an essential part of your brand. It’s the home of your business’s digital presence, the host of your assets, and a part of your attack surface. It can also be a target for cybercriminals. When threat actors compromise your domain it can result in data breaches, brand dilution, damage to your reputation, and loss of customer trust. Domain protection helps maintain the integrity of your brand and the security of your data.
How Does Flare Help with Domain Protection?
What role does domain takedown play in domain protection?
Domain takedown services, like the one offered by Flare, are a crucial part of domain protection. Such services work by automating the process of finding lookalike domains so your team doesn’t have to do it manually. Once the malicious domain is verified, a takedown service automatically sends a request to remove the suspicious domain to the relevant domain registrar, and monitors the situation to ensure the site is actually removed.
What do you get with Flare’s domain protection solution?
Flare’s Threat Exposure Management (TEM) platform lets your team quickly detect and respond to spoofed domains by automating the domain takedown monitoring, evaluation and takedown process. By taking a proactive stance against malicious domains, you reduce the risk to your data and your people.
What are the key benefits of Flare’s domain protection service?
- Takedown services: Flare streamlines the process of requesting and monitoring takedowns of spoofed sites.
- Data leak detection: If GitHub data is leaked, Flare maps its journey from your repositories to its current destination.
- Automated scanning and evaluation: Rather than scanning manually, your analysts are notified when a spoofed domain is discovered, and given all the information they need to verify the threat.
Domain Protection: An Overview
What is domain protection?
Domain protection refers to a set of practices and tools designed to secure your domain name from various threats and ensure its integrity, availability, and reliability. Domain protection involves multiple layers of security and management measures to safeguard your online presence. These include everything from best practices to domain takedown services.
Is it worth it to invest in domain protection?
Considering that about one in five phishing attacks come from spoofed domains, it’s certainly important to protect your domain. Threat actors rely on the fact that many victims, bombarded with messages all day long, won’t look too deeply into a fake site. The damage this can do to both the victims and the spoofed brand is extensive. While there are costs associated with domain protection services, the potential damage from a compromised domain can be far more expensive than the cost of implementing protection measures.
What is the impact of domain spoofing and other similar attacks?
Organizations can experience several adverse effects when their domains have been attacked:
- Financial loss
- Loss of traffic
- Reputational loss
- Data theft
- Interruptions to business operations
- Legal costs
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All of these costs add up, and can be devastating, particularly for small and mid-sized businesses.
Why is Domain Protection Especially Relevant Now?
What threats does domain protection guard against?
- Domain spoofing: Domain spoofing is a technique used by cybercriminals to create fraudulent content that appears to come from a legitimate domain or source. This can include emails, websites, or other digital content. The goal of spoofing is to trick victims into giving up sensitive information or clicking on malicious links. Domain spoofing is often used as part of a spear phishing attack.
- Spear phishing: Spear phishing is a targeted form of phishing in which bad actors craft detailed messages that seem to be from a trusted source, like your brand. To add legitimacy to these messages, criminals direct the recipient to a spoofed domain, which often attempts to get victims to enter sensitive information.
- Cybersquatting: Cybersquatting is the process of using, registering, or selling a domain name and address in order to profit off of another organization’s brand and trademark. Cybersquatters hope to trick site visitors into believing the domain is legitimate and affiliated with the recognized brand. Some lookalike sites target potential customers. Others target your employees (such as with a fake employee portal) in an attempt to collect login credentials or other information from them.
How can unprotected domains damage your business?
Spoofers, cybersquatters and other criminals who run malicious domains are using your brand to attack or profit from your customers, and that can do serious damage to your brand’s reputation and customer trust. They may be using your intellectual property to sell inferior versions of your product, or may simply be stealing from potential clients. The use of your business name and trademark may also limit your ability to purchase certain domain names or even use your own brand name online.
What are some of the challenges associated with domain protection?
It can be difficult to know when (or if) bad actors are targeting your organization’s domain; criminals typically don’t advertise their intentions ahead of an attack. By the time a business learns of an attack, it’s often too late. By using an automated solution to scan for malicious domains and lookalikes, you can find suspicious activity early and take down those domains before they can cause damage to your brand. It also helps to monitor the forums and social media where bad actors congregate; scanning for hacker chatter lets you know if your domain, digital assets, or brand has been compromised. This proactive approach to cybersecurity empowers you to take action before further harm can be done.
Domain Protection with Flare
Flare provides the leading Threat Exposure Management (TEM) solution for organizations. Our technology constantly scans the online world, including the clear & dark web, to discover unknown events, automatically prioritize risks, and deliver actionable intelligence you can use instantly to improve security. By automating your domain protection solution, your team can move quickly to reduce risk.
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