Domain Impersonation Protection
Prevent spoofing, protect your brand.
Understanding the threat of impersonation
Cybercriminals use impersonation to evade detection and pull off a variety of attacks, but most commonly phishing. In 2024 50% of business report having detected a breach or an attack, and of those businesses 84% say they have detected phishing – 🌐 See the report. Not all phishing attacks involve domain impersonation, but more sophisticated attacks that target specific individuals, or compromise supply chains are likely to utilise impersonation.
Businesses ARE targets for cybercriminals. The answer is a combination of technological countermeasures that protect your domain from being spoofed, impersonated, or breached.
Have you been involved in a supply chain breach?
Cybercriminals are increasingly turning to sophisticated attacks that aim to compromise vendors, and financial supply chains. Whether your business has been involved in a breach or you are just looking for protection, we can help. Our bespoke mix of tools and expertise is ready to secure you from all possible impersonation vectors.
Why is domain impersonation protection important?
Phishing represents the most common form of cyberattack in 2024 for UK businesses. This includes low sophistication attacks that are not targeted. But also includes low-frequency/high-sophistication attacks, which are becoming more common. These attacks are targeted, carefully planned, and result in greater gain for the attacker when successful. Often they rely on a combination of account compromise and domain impersonation to be successful. Domain impersonation protection is the security measures that aim to detect and prevent these high-sophistication attacks.
How are domains impersonated by cybercriminals?
Email spoofing – when attackers forge the sender address of an email of make it seem like it arrived from a legitimate sender. Email spoofing is still common although new email protection protocols make it possible to detect spoof emails and block them before they are delivered.
Website/URL spoofing – When attackers set up domains that look similar to a real, legitimate domain in order to impersonate them. Website spoofing can be used to make fake websites seem credible, or to commit financial fraud by through communications that impersonate the real business.
These types of spoof can be used to pull of a variety of attacks including credential theft, delivery of malware, financial fraud, social engineering or just to cause reputational damage.
Businesses have good reason to want to mitigate against these forms of attacks. Which is where we come in, Smallworld IT deploys a curated mix of tools and expertise to protect your business. We utilise the latest email security protocols and AI tools, as well as our more than 40 years of IT industry experience to provide you with unrivalled protection.
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