BrandShield 2020: Where next?
In 2011, we wrote a paper discussing a major problem: We noticed that brands struggle with assigning who’s responsible for brand protection to the right department within the organization.
The Distribution Plan That’ll Help Your Customers Avoid Counterfeits
Most marketing departments focus all their attention on talking about their product with consumers. They hopefully make the product irresistible to consumers. That’s their job. The job of the brand protection department is to help consumers avoid buying counterfeits which can damage their brand and reduce sales. It’s not often that the two groups are […]
Effective Tips To Manage Rogue Websites & Online Infringements
As a brand owner, you most like are aware that that your brand is being abused online in a variety of ways. Your brand may be the target of counterfeiters, fake apps, fake or damaging blogs, rogue websites, phishing schemes, and diversion that steals sales. The damage created by these sites can be irreparable if […]
How Do You Measure the Effectiveness of Your Brand Protection Program?
Recently, Coraline Zhang, legal counsel at DH Anti counterfeiting, made an interesting comparison between Marketing and Brand Protection. She described brand protection as very similar to marketing. The latter fights for control of market share against legitimate competitors, while the former works to reclaim market share stolen from illegal traders and discourages loyal fans from […]
New gTLD Sites Add New Challenges to Brand Owners
Anyone involved in on-line activity, whether it for selling, marketing, brand protection, or domain management are aware of the new top level domains which were introduced in 2013 and are unfolding on a regular basis. In addition to the most common top level domains, .com, .net, .gov, etc., will be added a staggering number of […]
Beware: Advanced Brand Threats Require New Defenses
It’s as if not a day goes by when there isn’t news about some national brand getting hit with a data breach. High profile breaches at large chains such as Target and Home Depot saw the records of tens of millions of customers stolen. While executives at these brands have an understanding of what the […]
Social Media’s More Sinister Turn
Social Media is becoming more of a factor in the brand protection scheme of things. Once an arena where your brand can become damaged by disgruntled consumers venting on your brand’s page and your open mishandling of the situation, Social Media is becoming more of a scammer’s haven for causing damage.
Preventing Typosquatting: How to Minimize the Harm to your Brand
Along with all the threats to your brand, is a form of Cyber Squatting known as Typosquatting. This tactic pretty much relies on the chance that someone will spell your URL incorrectly and will allow the squatter to rob your brand of traffic, credibility and your bottom line. In order to protect your brand you […]
The Threat the Internet of Things Poses to your Brand
In 1999, Kevin Ashton a British Entrepreneur coined the term the Internet of Things (IoT) to describe things in our everyday lives which are embedded with electronics of some type that allow them to exchange information over the Internet.
TypoSquatting: Ways to Protect your Brand
Typosquatting is the practice of registering a domain that closely resembles a legitimate website, often by changing, adding, or removing a character. Attackers can use these lookalike domains to impersonate brands, divert traffic, support phishing, or deceive customers. In 2026, typosquatting remains an important brand protection and cybersecurity issue because a fake domain can look […]