Domains, new gTLDs, brand protection, security & trademark news
The latest news in corporate domain name management, cyber security and online brand protection, including updates from ICANN's new gTLD program.
The Australian domain registry, auDA, has now confirmed their new licensing rules will go into effect on April 12, 2021. The registry has been working on this change for quite some time in preparation for the anticipated launch of their top-level domain (TLD), .AU.
To help companies understand and get secure against the very real cyber threats that have increased in 2020, we created a free interactive resource, the “Domain Security Checklist,” based on our defense in depth security approach. It walks you through pertinent questions and identifies risks that may not have been considered previously.
The online world has played a crucial role in keep things together—from communicating with each other, to shopping, to working from home—all so that we can follow the rules and reduce our exposure to the virus. To help you navigate through the complexity of keeping your online presence protected as well as secured, we have summarized our 2020 best practice guides for you.
In this blog, we’ll explore why the humble domain name means so much more with regards to online security, and why good domain security and portfolio management is essential to an organization’s online presence—and what happens without it.
Recent studies have shown that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the shift away from physical stores to digital shopping by roughly five years.
There is a new threat in town known as “SAD DNS” that allows attackers to redirect traffic, putting companies at risk of phishing, data breach, reputation damage, and revenue loss.
The one thing every major organization needs to be aware of is—your domain name portfolio is being watched like a hawk! There are hundreds of third parties with various motivations that will immediately register your lapsed domain names. Below are some of the risks associated with lapsing the wrong name.
With the COVID-19 pandemic persisting, online shopping will be the preferred method for the 2020 holiday shopping season. While staying home to shop is the safest option right now, it means consumers are more vulnerable to online fraud, counterfeits, and cyber crime.
Business email compromise (BEC) attacks are arguably the most sophisticated of all email phishing attacks, and some of the most costly. From 2016-2018, BEC alone made $5.3 billion[1], but it’s not an attack that everyone is familiar with.
By Dr. David Barnett, subject matter expert, CSC Brand Monitoring Share this post In the first article in this two-part series, we looked at the impact of brand abuse and infringements against intellectual property (IP) on an organization’s brand value.