Threat Distribution

If you do business online, your company is at risk for threats like phishing attacks and impersonation. It’s as simple as that. Unless all of your employees are trained highly in security awareness, many of them would not be able to recognize a phishing site or social media scam until it’s too late. If they comply with the scam unwittingly, they will give away sensitive information, download spyware, or even authorize payments to a fraudulent company. 

Phishing and social media scams may be directed externally at your customers as well. For example, scammers can set up fake Facebook pages that spoof your company or CEO. They can then run advertisements designed to get customers to sign up for fake giveaways that lead to malicious links and phishing sites. Some bad actors scam travelers out of time and money by faking hotel booking sites, too. Any site where people set up online profiles is at risk for customer phishing. 

Once scammers set up a fake website or social media profile, they have to distribute the threat to their targets. They can use spoofed emails, ads on search engines and social media, and direct messages through social media accounts. Once a threat is live, it’s possible to take it down through a variety of techniques. However, the threats have to be detected first. 

BrandShield’s automated technology scans websites, app marketplaces, social media platforms, forums, and more to detect and intercept threats to your company. And if scammers use your copyrighted logo in ads and web pages, image recognition technology can flag those links, as well. When criminals seek to distribute their threats to your employees and customers, our monitoring technology is there to remove threats and protect your assets and reputation. Find out how you can improve your bottom line by eliminating digital threats with a demo below.