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Safenames Ltd

Online Brand Protection

To combat the ever growing global problem of online brand abuse in the form of cyber-squatted domain names, Safenames has developed a fully managed and innovative brand protection service called Mark Protect. To simplify the overwhelming task of policing and taking action on trademark infringements across the Web.

Features

  • Domain Name Infringement Monitoring
  • Keyword Monitoring
  • App Store Monitoring
  • Reverse Logo Search
  • Social Media Monitoring
  • Website Content Monitoring
  • Phishing Site Take-down service
  • WIPO / UDRP Legal Services

Benefits

  • Protect the financial investment and equity of your intellectual property
  • Increase web traffic, by minimising traffic diversion sites
  • Recover multiple domains with single UDRP to increase recovery ROI
  • Prevent customer mis-trust and confusion
  • Protect brand and revenue streams from counterfeiting and affiliate misuse
  • Reduce marketing costs through prevention of pay per click abuse
  • Proactive Managed Services

Pricing

£100 to £500 a unit a month

  • Education pricing available

Service documents

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at jon.stock@safenames.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

8 0 8 4 9 9 2 8 1 9 6 4 3 6 6

Contact

Safenames Ltd Jon Stock
Telephone: +44.(0)1908 200022
Email: jon.stock@safenames.co.uk

Service scope

Software add-on or extension
No
Cloud deployment model
Private cloud
Service constraints
No
System requirements
Web Browser required to access the service.

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Email or online ticketing
Support response times
Support response times

365 x 24 hour support, 30 minute initial response. Severity based system, SEV1 - 1 hour SEV2 - 4 hour SEV3 - for scheduled / project work
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
Yes
Online ticketing support accessibility
WCAG 2.1 A
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
24 hours, 7 days a week
Web chat support
No
Onsite support
Yes, at extra cost
Support levels
Support availability - 24/7/365
Standard support response times - 30 minutes
Support available to third parties
Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started
New customers are assigned an account manager who will meet with you and determine your requirements.
Safenames Mark Protect will make an initial scan of your online brand and identify all infringements. Incidents will be categorised and your account manager will then advise best course of for each type of incident.

Safenames will provide full training and user documentation.
Service documentation
Yes
Documentation formats
  • HTML
  • PDF
End-of-contract data extraction
Data may be exported from our portal via excel.
End-of-contract process
All data should be removed from Safenames systems. All ongoing reports would be stopped.
There are no costs associated with discontinuing the service.

Using the service

Web browser interface
Yes
Supported browsers
  • Internet Explorer 11
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
  • Opera
Application to install
No
Designed for use on mobile devices
Yes
Differences between the mobile and desktop service
Web Application automatically resizes to fit available screen area offered by tablets or mobile phones.
An Apple/Android app is also available for domain registration services.
Service interface
Yes
User support accessibility
WCAG 2.1 A
Description of service interface
Web based self service portal for all order management.
Accessibility standards
WCAG 2.1 A
Accessibility testing
None
API
Yes
What users can and can't do using the API
Users may order and manage domain names through our API.
API documentation
Yes
API documentation formats
PDF
API sandbox or test environment
Yes
Customisation available
Yes
Description of customisation
Portal can be branded with your logo.
Customised domain reporting available.
Configurable Brand & Trademark reporting options.
Custom domain security options.

Scaling

Independence of resources
Safenames operates a capacity management plan under our ISO27001 certification.

Analytics

Service usage metrics
Yes
Metrics types
Our portal will show the following statistics:-

Infringing domains that are high risk.
Domains that have been registered in the past 90 days
Domains which contain your brand which expire within 60 days
Domains infringing on your brand which are registered by Registration Private
Infringing domains that have been registered for 5 years or more
Reporting types
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request

Resellers

Supplier type
Not a reseller

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Other security clearance
Government security clearance
Up to Security Clearance (SC)

Asset protection

Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
Yes
Data storage and processing locations
United Kingdom
User control over data storage and processing locations
Yes
Datacentre security standards
Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
Penetration testing frequency
At least once a year
Penetration testing approach
‘IT Health Check’ performed by a Tigerscheme qualified provider or a CREST-approved service provider
Protecting data at rest
  • Physical access control, complying with SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
  • Physical access control, complying with another standard
  • Encryption of all physical media
Data sanitisation process
Yes
Data sanitisation type
Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
Equipment disposal approach
Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Data importing and exporting

Data export approach
All data in Safenames management portal can be exported into excel.
Data export formats
CSV
Data import formats
CSV

Data-in-transit protection

Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
  • Private network or public sector network
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
Data protection within supplier network
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway

Availability and resilience

Guaranteed availability
Safenames server network SLA is 99.965%
Our full SLA agreement can be found at:-

https://www.safenames.net/Legal/ServiceLevelAgreement.aspx
Approach to resilience
Information available on request.
Outage reporting
Public Dashboard
Email Alerts
Telephone Support

Identity and authentication

User authentication needed
Yes
User authentication
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
Safenames has a role based access system.
All access is controller through our ISO27001 policies.
Access restriction testing frequency
At least once a year
Management access authentication
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password

Audit information for users

Access to user activity audit information
Users have access to real-time audit information
How long user audit data is stored for
At least 12 months
Access to supplier activity audit information
Users have access to real-time audit information
How long supplier audit data is stored for
At least 12 months
How long system logs are stored for
At least 12 months

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
Yes
Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
DAS Certification
ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
03/04/2016
What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
Our scope contains all aspects of Safenames business.
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
Yes
Who accredited the PCI DSS certification
Trustwave Holdings, Inc
PCI DSS accreditation date
02/03/2010
What the PCI DSS doesn’t cover
All aspects of PCI DSS have been implemented.
Cyber essentials
Yes
Cyber essentials plus
No
Other security certifications
No

Security governance

Named board-level person responsible for service security
Yes
Security governance certified
Yes
Security governance standards
ISO/IEC 27001
Information security policies and processes
We follow utilise the following policies and processes:

ISO27001
ISO9001
PCI/DSS Compliance

We have 2 external audits each year to ensure compliance.
The ISMS is the responsibility of Safenames CTO.

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard
Supplier-defined controls
Configuration and change management approach
Change control is implemented and operated under our ISO27001 scheme.
Vulnerability management type
Supplier-defined controls
Vulnerability management approach
In accordance with our ISO27001 certification, Safenames operates a complete technical and vulnerability management policy.
Protective monitoring type
Supplier-defined controls
Protective monitoring approach
Safenames has implemented a number of protective monitoring controls aimed at reducing cyber risk. These include inspecting firewall logs, investigating operating system security alerts and monitoring Intrusion Detection Systems.
Incident management type
Supplier-defined controls
Incident management approach
Safenames has an ISO27001 compliant Incident Management Process.
Users can report incidents to our help desk.
An incident report would be produced after the incident is resolved and distributed via email.

Secure development

Approach to secure software development best practice
Conforms to a recognised standard, but self-assessed

Public sector networks

Connection to public sector networks
No

Social Value

Social Value

Social Value

Wellbeing

Wellbeing

Safenames has developed an employee wellbeing policy to manage its obligations to maintain the mental health and wellbeing of all staff.
It covers our commitment to employee health, the responsibilities of managers and others for maintaining psychological health,
health promotion initiatives, communicating and training on health issues, the range of support available for the maintenance of mental health,
and organisational commitment to handling individual issues.

Objectives
The aim of this policy is to describe our commitment to the mental health and wellbeing of employees in its broadest,
holistic sense, setting out how the organisation fulfils its legal obligations, the responsibilities of different functions
and specialists and the range of services available to help employees maintain health and wellbeing.
Safenames recognises that wellbeing and performance are linked. Improving employees' ability to handle pressure
and to balance work and home life will ultimately lead to improved individual and organisational performance.

Pricing

Price
£100 to £500 a unit a month
Discount for educational organisations
Yes
Free trial available
No

Service documents

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at jon.stock@safenames.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.