Five pillars. One risk score. Practical guides on uptime, certificates, domain intelligence, digital risk, and the eight-dimension risk score from the GuardHound team.
Twelve days. Three detection windows. One wire transfer no one was watching. Walk a real lookalike-domain campaign through registration, certificate issuance, MX configuration, and invoice fraud — and see exactly when digital-risk monitoring on the brand pillar would have stopped it.
Read Article →Certificate Transparency turned the global TLS ecosystem into a queryable public record — about 40 million new certificates a day. Here is what CT actually shows you, the four patterns worth alerting on, and how CAA + CT close the loop on the certificates pillar of the eight-dimension risk score.
Read Article →For a decade, "uptime" lived in one tool and "security" lived in another. That split made sense when outages meant servers crashing — not anymore. Here is why service monitors (HTTP, keyword, ping, port, DNS, SSL handshake) are the first pillar of a modern security score, not a separate product.
Read Article →It took 72 hours for a small business to lose their domain — and three months to get it back. Walk through a real-world domain hijacking scenario step by step: reconnaissance, takeover, and exploitation. Learn the warning signs and how to protect your domain before it's too late.
Read Article →A small e-commerce site's SSL expires on a Saturday night. No one notices until Monday. $18,400 in lost sales, weeks of SEO recovery, and a customer trust crisis — all because of a certificate that costs $0 to renew. Here's what happened and how to make sure it never happens to you.
Read Article →We scan thousands of domains every month and see the same five mistakes over and over: unmonitored SSL, missing DMARC, no lookalike domain protection, weak registrar security, and unchecked breach exposure. Each one takes less than an hour to fix.
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