Brand protection

Surface threats to your brand
before customers see them.

Brand-protection + customer-fraud teams need to catch lookalike domains hosting phishing kits, fake executive impersonation accounts on LinkedIn, dark-web mentions tied to customer data, and ongoing brand-abuse signals — fast. Tracelight monitors continuously, fires severity-graded alerts to your Slack/SIEM, and ships a citation-anchored brief for each incident.

What this fixes.

PAIN 1
Lookalike domains hosting phishing kits target customers within hours of registration.
By the time the customer-fraud team finds out, the phishing site has been live for 36-72 hours and customers have already submitted credentials. Continuous monitoring catches the registration; manual review catches the damage.
PAIN 2
Executive impersonation accounts on LinkedIn / X are easy to create + hard to catch.
Fake executive accounts soliciting wire transfers from employees + customers are a $50B/year fraud category (FBI BEC stats). Cross-platform monitoring catches the impersonation; manual review catches the wire-transfer victim.
PAIN 3
Dark-web mentions of your brand surface customer-data exposure you didn't know about.
The breached employee credentials of your customer-service team are being traded on a darknet forum. You won't see this without monitoring; the attacker will.
What gets checked

8+ data sources running in parallel.

Continuous lookalike-domain monitoring (homograph + typosquat detection)
Cross-platform impersonation-account discovery (LinkedIn, X, Telegram, Discord)
Dark-web mention monitoring on brand name + customer data signals
SSL certificate transparency scan for new domains using brand-like names
Phishing-kit detection on suspicious domains
Customer-credential breach corpus matching
Adverse media + retraction database scan
Sanctions + AML cross-check on lookalike-domain registrants
What you get

The report that lands on your desk.

  1. 1
    Brand-exposure dashboard with severity-graded threat queue
  2. 2
    Lookalike-domain table with registration date + phishing-kit detection + recommended action (takedown / monitor / dismiss)
  3. 3
    Impersonation-account list with confidence + platform-specific reporting paths
  4. 4
    Dark-web exposure footprint with affected customer-data signals
  5. 5
    Continuous-monitor digest emailed weekly + real-time alerts on critical findings

Common questions.

Can you initiate takedowns for us?+

We surface the threats + provide the citation trail to support a takedown request. Actual takedown coordination (registrar abuse reports, hosting-provider escalation, platform impersonation reports) is your team's job or your brand-protection vendor's job. Tracelight is the discovery layer.

How fast is the monitoring cadence?+

Default monitors run on daily cadence with alerts via Slack/webhook. For high-volume brand-protection use cases, the Agency plan supports faster cadence + per-monitor configuration. Real-time-real-time (sub-minute) requires a dedicated brand-protection platform on top of Tracelight.

Does this cover non-English content?+

Lookalike-domain monitoring is language-agnostic. Social-media impersonation + dark-web mention monitoring covers major languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese) with diminishing coverage for less-indexed languages. Tell us your brand's exposure footprint + we'll be honest about coverage.

Run a sample brand-protection brief — free for 7 days.

No credit card. Cancel anytime. Same product, same OSINT workers, same audit trail — just scoped to your investigation.

Other use cases
M&A diligence
M&A & pre-acquisition due diligence
Surface sanctions hits, undisclosed litigation, key-person liability, and reputational red flags before LOI. Citation-anchored reports your legal team can defend.
Background checks
Background checks
Pre-employment screening with FCRA-aware citation trails. 32 parallel workers cover criminal records, sanctions, dark-web exposure, and adverse media — far beyond a stock credit-report background check.
Fraud / insurance
Fraud & insurance investigations
Claim verification, social-media surveillance, address history, and behavior pattern analysis. Built for SIU teams and fraud investigators who need court-ready evidence.
Journalism
Investigative journalism
Source vetting + cross-platform identity correlation for investigative reporters. Verify identities, surface conflicts of interest, and audit your own sourcing trail before publication.
Skip tracing
Skip tracing
Find people who've gone off the grid. 32 OSINT workers correlate aliases, addresses, social activity, and breach exposure to surface a current location lead.
Expert witness vetting
Expert witness vetting
Before you depose them or hire them, run an expert through 32 OSINT workers. Surface prior testimony, conflict of interest, credentials disputes, and reputation risks before they cost the case.
Litigation support
Litigation support
Adverse party discovery, witness vetting, asset-search leads, and impeachment ammunition for civil + criminal litigators. Citation-anchored, deposition-defensible.
Asset search
Asset search
Find what they own — entities, properties, vehicles, hidden affiliates — for collection actions, judgment enforcement, divorce discovery, and pre-litigation settlement leverage.
Insurance / SIU
Insurance claim investigation
Catch claim fraud before payout. Social-media surveillance, address history, cross-claim pattern detection, and court-ready evidence preservation for SIU teams.
Cyber IR
Cyber incident response
Attacker attribution, breach-victim notification context, dark-web exposure verification, and indicator pivoting for IR teams + MSSPs. Citation-anchored, fast.
Executive protection
Executive protection
Pre-event venue threat assessment, named-target social-media monitoring, doxx-exposure baseline, and travel security briefs for EP teams.
Real estate
Real-estate diligence
Counterparty + entity verification + sanctions screening + adverse-media checks for commercial real-estate transactions. AML-aware.
Crypto
Cryptocurrency investigations
Wallet attribution, transaction-counterparty diligence, exchange-account holder vetting, and dark-web exposure for crypto investigators + exchange compliance teams.