Cybersecurity & brand protection
Protect the systems you depend on and the identity your customers trust. Osborne helps businesses assess security risks, strengthen agreed controls and respond to online threats, including impersonation, fake websites and scams that use your name.
01 · Two services
Attackers go after what you run on and who you are. We cover both, with one relationship, one point of contact and a separate, specialist workstream for each.
Inside your business
Understand the weaknesses affecting your accounts, devices, business email and critical services. We agree a practical improvement plan, coordinate the work within scope and verify the result. Monitoring, incident support and recovery preparation are defined around your engagement.
Outside your business
Find and respond to fake websites, impersonating accounts, scam promotions and suspected counterfeit listings. We investigate the evidence, manage reports to the relevant providers and check the action taken.
02 · The shift
Attacks that once took a practised criminal days now take anyone with an AI tool a few minutes. The methods haven't changed much. The number of people able to use them has.
Needed someone who wrote well in your customers' language and knew how your company sounds.
Generated in seconds, in any language, in your tone of voice, and personalised for each recipient.
Took a designer and a developer time to rebuild your pages well enough to fool a customer.
A lookalike site, payment page or login screen can be produced from a few screenshots.
Took effort to keep up: posting, replying and looking real over weeks.
Profiles, posts and replies can be generated and run at scale, across many platforms at once.
Impersonating an executive meant finding an actor and hoping no one looked too closely.
Short samples of a real voice or video can be used to create a convincing imitation.
Searching for weak configurations and forgotten systems was slow, technical work.
Tools help less experienced attackers search for and probe weak points faster.
03 · Working together
A scam rarely stays in one place. A fake login page in your name is a brand problem; the staff accounts it targets are a security problem. You get one case reference, and when a campaign touches both, we link the evidence.
The accounts, email, devices, cloud services and data your business runs on. We assess them, agree improvements and check the changes work.
Your protected works, product images and trademarks. We record them as reference points and use the appropriate rights-based reporting route when misuse is established.
Your name, logo and official channels. We investigate lookalike domains, impersonating accounts, scam ads and fake stores, and pursue the providers able to act.
The confidence that a message or page from you is really from you. Secure email and accounts on the inside; reported impersonation on the outside.
Each engagement is scoped individually, and we tell you plainly what is and isn't covered. We don't provide legal advice; rights disputes and legal decisions stay with you and your advisers.
Start here
Tell us about your business and what concerns you, whether that's your systems, your brand or both. We'll discuss the relevant scope and next steps.
Under active attack right now? Disconnect affected systems where it's safe to do so, contact your IT or incident response provider, and report crime to the relevant authorities.