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Your organization’s domain name is unique to your company. It correlates to your IP address and searches for your website and your employees’ emails.
A cyber criminal can impersonate or infiltrate your domain to trick someone into clicking on a malicious link (also known as phishing). The following are steps you can take to protect your domain name from malicious actors.
- Register your domain name with a reputable domain name registrar (if the registrar is hacked, you are at risk)
- Think of similar names that could be registered to fool someone (e.g., for StateFarm.com a similar name might be StateFarrn.com, which looks the same until you look very closely), then register those names and have them direct traffic to your actual site.
- Maintain close control of admin access to your domain. Limit the number of people who have access, and also implement two-factor authentication.
- Use DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance) to validate emails to limit email spoofing attempts
- Use DNSSEC (DNS Security Extensions) on your servers to ensure verification of the sender.
At Commonwealth Sentinel, we can assess your existing IT security and collaborate with your team to enhance it. We can also provide a complete source of services. At Commonwealth Sentinel, we stay focused on cyber security so you can focus on other things. Contact us today or sign up for a free consultation.
At Commonwealth Sentinel, we stay focused on cyber security so you can focus on other things.