Secure Business Email Against Domain Impersonation
that can be used to steal sensitive business information
or to distribute harmful malware.
EnGarde Cloud Email Security Keeps Hospitality Companies
Ahead of The Latest Threats
What Is Domain Impersonation?
Domain impersonation is a popular attack method in which cybercriminals create fake domains that resemble legitimate ones to spread malicious content or to steal sensitive or confidential information. Malicious actors commonly use social engineering techniques like phishing emails or fraudulent websites to trick their victims into giving away sensitive data or downloading malware. On average, a company sees 90 domains impersonating their business each month. With domain impersonation, cybercriminals can hijack a company’s brand, harm its reputation, and potentially steal large amounts of money from the target organization.
How Does Domain Impersonation Work?
Cybercriminals employ various stealthy tactics to carry out domain impersonation attacks, including:
Attackers Impersonate a Legitimate Email Domain
Domain impersonation involves attackers impersonating a business or specific figure by creating domain names that are ever so slightly altered and would go unnoticed by most people. Threat actors often replace letters in a legitimate email domain or add a letter that is difficult to spot at first glance.
Threat Actors Leverage Typo-Squatting to Deceive Users
Cybercriminals frequently use typosquatting to register website domains with commonly misspelled versions of popular names. The aim of typosquatting is to deceive users who may mistype the targeted domain name into their browser bar and direct them to the attacker's malicious website, which often contains malware or is part of a wider phishing scam.
Cybercriminals Employ Urgency to Rush & Distract Users
Attackers impersonate legitimate domains and trick users into either clicking on a link that takes them to a malicious website or unknowingly sending sensitive data or money. These requests will typically convey a sense of urgency, prompting the recipient to act quickly without fully considering the consequences, or to cause enough stress and panic that they bypass regular protocols.
Protects Against Domain Impersonation with Advanced Authentication and Domain Analysis
Guardian Digital EnGarde Cloud Email Security exceeds standard impersonation defense mechanisms with advanced targeted attack protection designed to stop all types of impersonation attacks, including domain impersonation. EnGarde’s intelligent, comprehensive protection includes domain reputation and age analysis to help block lookalike domains frequently used in phishing attacks. Our complete reputation analysis scrutinizes domain history, age, content, and activity. This analysis can assist in recognizing domains that have been involved in phishing attacks in the past, are associated with suspicious behavior, or are fraudulent lookalike domains.
Guardian Digital also implements the SPF, DKIM, and DMARC email authentication protocols to the fullest to help prevent email spoofing and shield your domain from being used in phishing attacks and other fraudulent email messages.
Closes Critical Gaps in Built-In Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace Email Security
Built-in email protection in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace is not equipped to defend against lookalike domains and malicious URLs commonly used in domain impersonation attacks. Native security mechanisms are also unable to identify behavioral and conversational anomalies frequently used to deceive users into falling for a scam. Given that a successful attack can lead to the compromise of sensitive data, the loss of hard-earned client trust, or the installation of harmful malware, implementing additional layers of proactive email protection like Guardian Digital EnGarde Cloud Email Security provides is critical in protecting the reputation of your domain and securing against impersonation attacks and other evasive threats.
Improves Domain Protection and IT Efficiency with Managed Email Security
Expert ongoing system monitoring, maintenance, and accessible support provide a remote extension of your IT team, improving security, maximizing productivity, simplifying deployment, and easing the load on your IT department. Guardian Digital’s fully-managed EnGarde Cloud Email Security solution equips you with the knowledge and resources required to rapidly and reliably detect the most sophisticated threats to your domain, your sensitive data, and your hard-earned reputation. Our security experts are with you every step of the way, assisting with setup and providing the around-the-clock email vigilance required to identify and block all potential threats to the inbox.
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