Protecting your brands on-line
If you are doing business on-line, your brand is being hijacked. It does not matter what kind of industry you are in, someone, somewhere is targeting your web content, name, trademark, copyright, or your network.
How many ways can you be ripped off on the web?
- Product counterfeiting – not only luxury products anymore but just about every product under the sun is being counterfeited and sold on the Internet
- Brand hijacking – using your trademarks to lure customers to substandard products (see search stacking).
- Market diversion – re-labeling, repackaging and reissuing expired, damaged or discounted products for full price in “gray” markets.
- Lifting web content – using your graphics, photographs, icons, descriptions, product names, code and text to populate illicit websites.
- Network intrusions – to access your resources, send spam, steal funds, and impersonate your business.
- Industrial espionage – surveillance and hacking of your electronic media for proprietary information.
- Domain name abuse – “cybersquating”, “typosquating”, and spoofing your domain name in spam email.
- Market manipulation – “pump and dump” stock fraud that can wreck a company market value and reputation.
- Deliberate smears – campaigns to lower the value of a product or company by spreading rumors and disinformation on the Internet.
- Poor data control – are your employees emailing confidential material, losing cell phones and PDAs, brining viruses to work on flash drives?
What can KnujOn do to help?
- KnujOn has a database of several million collected fraud emails and a continuous feed of spam that can be researched for brand hijacking.
- KnujOn can conduct proactive brand protection on the Internet.
- KnujOn can take your organization’s junk email and process it to better protect your network, limiting your exposure to intrusions and viruses.
- KnujOn can analyze your network for security flaws, intrusions, and planted malicious code.
- KnujOn can provide security training and consulting for organizations of various sizes.
Is your brand being hijacked? Contact us to find out...(contact@knujon.com)
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