2026 WINNER · CYBERSECURITY STARS AWARDS
Netcraft · Preemptive Domain Disruption
Best Cybersecurity Industry Solution
Overview
Netcraft is a trusted cybersecurity leader in brand protection and digital risk management, relied on by CISOs and security professionals worldwide. Its advanced cybercrime disruption platform uses AI, machine learning, and automation to process more threat data than any other provider, delivering unmatched visibility across the threat landscape. This intelligence empowers Netcraft to detect, disrupt, and remove scams and cyber threats with speed, precision, and scale. With the industry's lowest false positive rate for malicious content, Netcraft provides accurate protection while ensuring minimal disruption to legitimate users and operations.
Key Capabilities
Netcraft is a global leader in cybercrime disruption, trusted by eight of the world's top ten governments and many of the largest global banks and enterprises. Its solution, Preemptive Domain Disruption, shifts the paradigm of brand protection from reactive "whack-a-mole" tactics to a proactive Left of Live™ defense model, disrupting attacker infrastructure before the attack is live.
Key Features
- AI-Powered Infrastructure Clustering: Unlike signal-based approaches that look at threats in isolation, Netcraft uses AI to correlate new domain registrations with known attack campaigns by analyzing shared infrastructure, registration artifacts, and naming schemes.
- Predictive Detection: The solution identifies attacker-controlled domains at the point of registration—often days or weeks before they are weaponized with malicious content for phishing, business email compromise (BEC), or fraud.
- Enforcement-Grade Evidence: Leveraging Verified Attack Indicators (V.A.I™), Netcraft identifies signals of future attacks and automatically generates takedown requests backed by enforcement-grade evidence, giving providers confidence to take action. In parallel, broadcasting defensive signals to DNS operators and email reputation services to mark these domains as high-risk while takedowns are processed.
- Automated Remediation Workflows: Netcraft leverages a deep network of integrations with more than 13,000 hosting providers and registrars to facilitate rapid disruption across more than 220 country-code TLDs.
How we are different
- Unmatched Speed and Effectiveness: While industry averages for takedowns often exceed 24 hours, Netcraft has set a new benchmark with a median takedown time of just 33 minutes for recent phishing threats. For preemptive actions, Netcraft successfully disrupts 87% of criminally controlled domains within 24 hours, frequently before any victim can be targeted
- Proven Scale and Impact: Netcraft processes a massive dataset of 23B+ datapoints annually and tracks over 1.2 billion websites. This scale allows the company to disrupt nearly one-third of all global phishing attacks. By making a brand an expensive and difficult target through constant, automated disruption, it forces criminals to move their infrastructure elsewhere.
- Precision and Trust: Netcraft maintains the industry's most accurate detection engine, achieving a 0.02% false positive rate. This precision is backed by 85,000+ proprietary rules and human-led behavioral insights. Because of this reputation, infrastructure providers prioritize Netcraft's reports, allowing for near-instant access restrictions for billions of downstream users.
- Proven Real-World Impact and ROI: In a single implementation for a major social media provider, Netcraft completed 20,000 preemptive takedowns in just three months.
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