New York, NY (Dec. 8, 2021) – SecurityScorecard,a global leader in cybersecurity ratings, and CSC, a world leader in domain security solutions,have released comprehensive research detailing the impacts of an organization’s choice in domain registrar on their overall security ratings.
As detailed in a joint whitepaper with CSC, SecurityScorecard analyzed the security ratings for 50,000 of the most followed companies in their platform. The research shows that companies that select enterprise-class registrars (ECR) for domain management have a total score that is on average one-half to one whole letter grade higher than those using a consumer-grade domain registrar (CGR).
In the analysis, this is the difference between having an overall score of a “C” versus a “B” or “A”. In addition, CSC’s domain security research showed that 57 percent of Global 2000 companies are relying on CGRs, validating the need to prioritize domain and DNS security with a trusted enterprise-class domain registrar.
Many phishing attacks occur from a maliciously registered, confusingly similar domain name, a compromised or hijacked legitimate domain name, or email spoofing….
