Platforms
Protecting Online Brand Identity and Reputation
Part of the OpSec online technology suite
Brands have embraced online and its opportunities to reach and remain relevant with consumers. But this has brought new vulnerabilities to navigate, as identities, revenues, and reputations are put at risk, and responses are complicated by overlapping threats.
The OpSec platform operates across all critical channels globally, using advanced technologies to detect and enforce against multiple forms of online brand abuse. It protects against trademark and patent infringements, online counterfeit selling, unauthorized product sales, channel compliance issues, and fraudulent imitation. The platform offers brand owners an enterprise-scale approach to tackling real world threats and complications.
More than 1,000 marketplaces and 30 social media platforms are monitored every day, contributing to over 40 million potential infringements detected each year.
From impersonation of products and brands to misuse of intellectual property and outright fraud, these threats overlap but have their own signatures and legal remedies. So brand owners need a response and a platform that works across functions, objectives, and threats, taking a coordinated approach to keep brands safe. The OpSec platform provides coverage based on brand needs and characteristics and tackles complex threats online.
Countering online threats requires effective intelligence gathering and enforcement. The OpSec platform ingests data from multiple channels globally and incorporates advanced tools for efficient detection and enforcement. Tackling current threats and adjusting to new threat signatures requires close monitoring of emerging trends, so OpSec online analysts use our platform to inform future strategies and enact immediate takedowns.
Comprehensive Detection: The platform ingests and monitors feeds from all critical sources to cover both infringements and fraud. Global coverage extends to key marketplaces, mobile app stores, and social media channels, as well as millions of domains and URLs. We customize monitoring by industry and according to the characteristics and priorities of each brand, because detection is the first line of defense against online threats.
Optimized Enforcement: Automation plays an important role in expediting the takedown of fake goods and brand infringements. We use tools, including direct enforcement APIs and one-click email enforcement to enact takedowns quickly at scale. Rapid fraudcasting and mitigation response times are essential to limit risk exposure and protect consumers from fraudsters, and we also integrate our tools into IT security incident systems.
Insightful Reporting: Sustaining the effectiveness of the online response requires a clear view of evolving threats. Smart analysis of persistent threats, plus reporting that identifies trends and tracks progress, highlights emerging threats before they present an issue. For example, reports can track brand-specific risks in emerging platforms and identify legitimate sellers who are not in compliance with agreed commercial terms or pricing.
Sales of counterfeits online now account for more than 70% of all fake goods that are sold, and online channels have also facilitated unauthorized selling practices.
OpSec brand analysts and investigators combine their extensive knowledge of our platform with the know-how to apply it to messy real-world problems. Our intelligence-led approach informs rapid takedowns as well as deeper investigations, gathers evidence, helps prepare prosecutions, and stops repeat offenders. Global scalability and coverage are essential to protect brands, and our platform extends around the world.
Protecting brands online requires a varied toolkit and innovative technologies.
