Your brand is at risk of impersonation and identity attack
So, you got another email asking you to update your payment details from one of your service providers, or that your account has been suspended due to non-payment and you must pay immediately.
If you were astute you would have spotted the fake mail straight away. If you were busy and distracted, probably not. Fake, phishing and spam mails have come a long way since the days of the ‘you’ve won the US lottery’ or ‘your long-lost uncle in London has left you £10 000’. Today we all know better and our spam filters are pretty good at weeding out those kinds of mails.
But fraudsters are smart, and their techniques have become incredibly sophisticated (and slip through spam filters). They use look-alike branded emails to contact customers and elicit money from them. To the untrained eye there is no difference between the fake mail and the real one. If you’re receiving mails like this impersonating brands that you trust, you can bet your bottom dollar your customers are receiving them too.
But what happens if it’s your brand on those fake emails going out and your customers who are being scammed? What dos that mean for customer trust and loyalty? It might surprise you to know that there is a fundamental security flaw in the way email was designed. As much as 91% of cybercrimes are initiated with email.
Here are the 4 biggest problems with email:
- Impersonation: Attackers can send mail from your domain defrauding, staff, customers and suppliers.
- Interception: Mails can be intercepted and changed without the recipient knowing.
- Delivery: Legitimate email often lands in spam, and false positives cause business disruption.
- Visibility and audit: Companies have no active visibility on which providers are sending email from their domain.
Using cutting-edge technology, Winstel safeguards your business by preventing criminals from using fake email messages that impersonate your organisation.
We interrogate the security of your domain to ascertain a domain safety rating, which gives you an accurate idea of just how vulnerable you are to email impersonation. Then we look at how to improve the security around your domain.
A thoroughly secured domain has fully enforced security, intercept protection, and full visibility on legitimate and illegitimate servers. We guarantee that we can take your domain security from its present status to 100% secured and protected in 90 days.
If you need to go even deeper into preventing impersonation and identity attacks, you’ll want to use Winstel’s advanced breach protection. This highly advanced security solution monitors multiple sources, including the dark web, to detect if your organisation’s systems, or user credentials and personal information, have been compromised.
More than 60 major, multinational companies operating in Africa trust this state-of-the-art global technology to protect their brands and their reputations. Winstel can do the same for you.
