About Brandefense
Takedown is an ops discipline. We built it that way.
We ran incident response for financial institutions before we built a product. The pattern was always the same: a lookalike domain would be live and harvesting credentials for 48–72 hours while a generic abuse@ email sat unanswered. We built Brandefense to close that gap — Certificate Transparency detection, direct registrar contact, 4-hour SLA.
The founding story
From incident response to registrar-direct takedown
Mehmet Caner Kiroglu spent several years in CERT/CSIRT operations, managing brand-impersonation incidents for regional banks and financial platforms across multiple markets. The same scene repeated: a bank's InfoSec team would discover a convincing lookalike domain — correct SSL cert, copied login UI, sometimes a 16Shop kit — already active for two or three days. The first abuse contact email had gone to a registrar queue that nobody answered inside 72 hours. Customers had already been phished.
In 2022, he moved to Miami and co-founded Brandefense to fix the detection-to-contact gap at its root. The product philosophy: don't build a monitoring dashboard — build the automated pipeline that fires the registrar contact before any victim arrives. CT log scraping detects domains hours after registration. Pre-vetted ABUSE templates with direct registrar contacts compress the response window from 72 hours to under four. ICANN Compliance escalation handles the holdouts.
Miami is the right base. The US–LatAm corridor carries disproportionate brand-abuse volume in financial services, telecom, and retail — exactly the mid-market SOC teams and Trust & Safety groups that need operational DRP but can't justify enterprise-only contracts. Brandefense is not a SIEM add-on, not a generic threat intel feed, and not a managed service that takes days to respond. It is a registrar-direct takedown ops tool, priced for teams that need it to actually work.
What we stand for
Three operating principles
Precision
False-positive rate below 2%. SOC teams have no patience for alert noise — and rightfully so. Every detection we surface has been scored by Levenshtein distance, cross-referenced against homograph pattern libraries, and screenshot-verified before it lands in your queue. We are not a threat-intel feed that dumps every registered .net with your keyword in it.
Speed
The 4-hour SLA is a signed contractual commitment on Growth and Enterprise plans — not a target on a slide deck. We maintain direct abuse escalation paths with 40+ ICANN-accredited registrars specifically so we can hit that window. Miss it, get a service credit. The SLA measures time from CT log detection to first registrar contact: logged automatically, reviewable in your evidence archive.
Transparency
Every takedown we initiate generates a full evidence archive: timestamped screenshot, WHOIS capture, RDAP metadata, registrar ticket reference, and status timeline with SHA-256 verification. Your legal team and compliance reviewers can audit every action taken on your behalf. If you ever need to escalate to ICANN or file a DMCA notice, the evidence package is already built.
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Your brand is being impersonated right now.
Brandefense finds and removes it — before your customers report it.