Fraud rarely begins when it is discovered. By the time suspicious transactions, compliance alerts, or internal audits bring attention to a case, the activity may have been occurring for months or longer. According to the ACFE's 2024 Report to the Nations, organizations lose an estimated 5% of annual...
Social media platforms remove fake accounts at a scale that is difficult to comprehend. What they cannot do is remove them faster than attackers create them. Americans lost $2.1 billion to social media scams in 2025, an eightfold increase since 2020, most of it flowing through impersonation campaigns that...
Brand protection used to mean trademark registration, domain monitoring, and the occasional cease-and-desist letter. Those concerns have not disappeared, but they now represent the smallest and most visible layer of a problem that has grown considerably more complex. The FTC reported $2.95 billion in losses from impersonation...
Most security teams are not short on data. Between SIEM alerts, endpoint telemetry, vulnerability scans, and threat feeds, the average organization collects more security information than analysts can realistically process. The challenge is not volume. It is that most of that data arrives without the context needed to understand whether...
Most organizations do not fail because they lack information. They fail because the information they had was fragmented across teams, buried in disconnected systems, or surfaced too late to change a decision already in motion. Consider a common scenario: a vendor passes onboarding checks in January. By March, its ownership...
A threat feed surfaces a suspicious IP address in a SIEM. The alert fires. An analyst checks it against a few sources, confirms it looks malicious, blocks it at the firewall, and closes the ticket. The indicator is handled. The investigation never really starts. In this article, we examine what...
