{"id":13625,"date":"2024-09-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cscdbs.com\/blog\/?p=13625"},"modified":"2025-01-21T10:28:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T15:28:36","slug":"enterprise-domain-stargazing-understanding-your-companys-galaxy-of-domains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cscdbs.com\/blog\/enterprise-domain-stargazing-understanding-your-companys-galaxy-of-domains\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise Domain Stargazing: Understanding Your Company\u2019s Galaxy of Domains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In CSC\u2019s recent insight paper<\/a>, we address the trend that many business leaders today don\u2019t realize the extent to which their modern enterprise\u2014and its millions of digital assets\u2014rely on. It\u2019s a vast domain ecosystem that needs to be protected from online threats. Often, to better understand this need for domain security, we need to understand how critical and interconnected domains are within a business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Domains, in many ways, are a gateway to your digital ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like the sun of our own Milky Way, some domains are absolutely vital to sustaining the ecosystem because they\u2019re the source of critical business infrastructure\u2014like websites, emails, service applications, and client, supplier, or partner portals. Then there are domains or subdomains created for temporary initiatives, like marketing campaigns, that are no longer needed after a certain period of time. Companies may also register lookalike or \u201chomoglyph\u201d domains that resemble legitimate ones as a defense mechanism to avoid malicious third parties buying and exploiting their affiliation with the brand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Galactic storms<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Cybercriminals know the value of domains and are perpetually scouring the internet for opportunities to exploit them, so it\u2019s crucial to understand how these malicious actors seek to obtain and leverage fraudulent ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are numerous ways that unprotected domains could be acquired and weaponized, for instance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n