In today's digital age, brands are increasingly vulnerable to cyber threats that exploit their reputation. These threats not only damage brand integrity but also expose organizations to significant financial and legal risks. At CloudSEK, we understand the critical need for swift and effective measures to counteract these online dangers. Our specialized takedown services are designed to safeguard your brand by removing fraudulent websites, malicious content, and other online threats.

Understanding Takedowns

Takedowns are a proactive approach to combating cyber threats that jeopardize an organization's reputation and security. By systematically removing harmful content, we help mitigate risks and protect your brand's integrity. In Q4 2024 alone, CloudSEK successfully executed over 2200 takedowns, showcasing our commitment to brand protection.

What is a Takedown ?

Threat actors are increasingly using brand equity that a brand enjoys to target unsuspecting customers. This ends up hurting the brand’s reputation significantly while also exposing them to financial and legal risks. Takedowns try to mitigate this by systematically removing fraudulent websites, content, and online threats that jeopardize an organization's reputation and security. With the digital landscape rife with cyber threats, prompt and decisive action is essential to mitigate potential risks and safeguard brand integrity.

Failure to address these threats promptly can lead to severe consequences, including financial losses, reputational damage, loss of customer trust, and data breaches. Recognizing the importance of proactive defense against cyber threats, CloudSEK offers a specialized takedown service headed by an in-house takedown team to provide comprehensive protection against a wide range of online threats.

How do CloudSEK Takedowns work?

The process begins with proactive detection and flagging of potential cyber threats, leveraging cutting-edge AI/ML algorithms to analyze vast amounts of data and identify suspicious activities.

Once a threat is identified by the CloudSEK platform and a takedown request is initiated, CloudSEK's dedicated in-house takedown team springs into action, leveraging legal measures, technical expertise and strategic partnerships to expedite the removal of malicious content from the internet and causing further damage to the brand.

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Step by Step process in takedown process.

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A Waterfall view of our Takedown Process

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What are the takedowns covered in our scope?

CloudSEK Takedowns, Q4 2024: In numbers

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We have an TAT of just 4.1 business days on average

96% Success rate in Takedown cases

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Swift response: We take down fake social media handles in just over 2 business days.

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Assuming the same success rate for requests which are under processing, We have a success rate of 95.6%

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Schedule a CloudSEK demo:

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Author

CloudSEK Threat Intelligence

CloudSEK's Threat Intelligence team, a group of cybersecurity experts led by Koushik Sivaraman, primarily focuses on the research and analysis of threat intelligence related to threat actors, malware, vulnerability/ exploitation, data breach incidents, etc.