HomeSolutions Brand Protection

Solution · Brand Protection

Brand protection that
holds up under scrutiny.

Discover every asset carrying your brand, understand what was done to it, correlate who is behind it, and preserve the whole observation as evidence. One platform from first sighting to filed enforcement.

The mandate

Your team is measured on outcomes,
not on alert volume.

Brand protection programmes fail in three predictable places. None of them are detection problems.

Pressure 1

Volume without resolution

More alerts is not more progress. Teams drown in individually true detections that never assemble into a case anyone can act on, and enforcement throughput plateaus while exposure keeps growing.

Pressure 2

Evidence that does not travel

A screenshot in a shared drive cannot be shown to be unaltered. When counsel or a platform asks how the material was captured and stored, the answer has to be more than “we saved it”.

Pressure 3

Whack-a-mole economics

Removing listings one at a time costs more than replacing them does. Without the relationships between sellers, domains, and payment infrastructure, you are funding an operation's resilience.

Capabilities

One platform, fourteen working parts.

Argus is the delivery vehicle for brand protection at Cyber Conclave. Every capability below writes into the same asset record and the same graph, which is what makes the output evidence rather than a report.

DISCOVERYDigital asset discovery

Continuous acquisition across marketplaces, websites, social platforms, app stores, ad networks, and your own cloud repositories.

TRADEMARKTrademark misuse detection

Identifies unauthorised use of marks, including redraws, partial marks, and deliberately distorted traces.

COUNTERFEITCounterfeit identification

Compares products, packaging, labels, and serial ranges against authorised specifications.

MARKETPLACEMarketplace intelligence

Seller-level behaviour, listing velocity, pricing anomalies, and fulfilment signals across global and regional platforms.

DOMAINSDomain and website monitoring

Lookalike registrations, storefront clones, and content mirrors, seeded from passive DNS and certificate transparency.

SIMILARITYImage similarity analysis

Nearest-neighbour recall in embedding space, so near-misses surface instead of being silently dropped.

SOCIALSocial media monitoring

Posts, reels, comment imagery, and promoted content, with account-level correlation into the graph.

SYNTHETICAI-generated content analysis

Diffusion and GAN residual detection, content credential checks, and texture entropy scoring.

EVIDENCEEvidence preservation

Write-once storage, external timestamping, and a hash-linked custody record on every observation.

CASESInvestigation workflows

Cases open themselves with exhibits, genealogy, and cluster analysis already attached.

APIEnterprise APIs

REST, GraphQL, streaming events, webhooks, SDKs, and a Terraform provider.

MONITORINGContinuous monitoring

Event-driven recrawl when a seller, domain, or campaign changes behaviour.

COLLABORATIONAnalyst collaboration

Assignment, comments, review states, and a full audit trail on every action.

REPORTINGReporting and dashboards

Programme-level exposure, enforcement throughput, and outcome reporting for executives.

Exposure

See where your brand is losing ground.

Exposure scored by surface and region, weighted by asset value, seller volume, buyer reach, and enforcement friction. Not a count of detections — a measure of where damage is compounding, so programme budget follows risk instead of noise.

Exposure index · trailing 30 days 0 contained · 100 critical
Weighted exposure index by distribution surface and region.
SurfaceN. AmericaLATAM EMEAChinaSE AsiaIndia
LOW CRITICAL HIGHEST: MARKETPLACES · CHINA (94)
Lineage

Every image has a history.

Argus reconstructs the family tree of an asset — the original, the crops, the recompressions, the screenshots of screenshots, the generative repaints — and places each one on a timeline with a preserved observation behind it.

Genealogy · ast_meridian_mark_primary 3 generations · 8,412 descendants
ORIGIN · 2019 mark-primary DNA a71f · sealed G1 · CROPhero-crop-1200.jpg G1 · RECOMPRESSmark-q52.jpg G1 · OVERLAYmark-watermarked G2 · LISTINGoutlet-store /p/8841 G2 · SCREENSHOTsocial-repost-4471 G2 · AI REPAINTdiffusion-variant-9 G2 · PACKAGINGfake-box-print.png G2 · LABELserial-decal-v2 G3 · 4,118 repostsDNA 0.91–0.99 G3 · 2,204 listings41 sellers G3 · 640 syntheticno content credentials EVERY EDGE RECORDS A DERIVATION - FINGERPRINT DISTANCE, TRANSFORM CLASS, AND FIRST-SEEN ORDERING
Evidence timeline · CASE-2026-0741 every marker backed by a preserved observation
2019-03-11 Asset registered

Original sealed at intake. Baseline fingerprint and rights record established.

◆ SEALED
2026-06-02 04:18Z Infrastructure appears

Three lookalike domains registered within 41 minutes on shared hosting.

◆ SEALED
2026-06-14 22:07Z First derivative observed

Cropped and recompressed mark on a new storefront. Parent resolved in 380ms.

◆ SEALED
2026-06-29 11:52Z Network propagation

19 sellers publish the same derivative set inside a six-hour window.

◆ SEALED
2026-07-11 09:30Z Synthetic variants

Diffusion repaints appear, defeating pixel matching. The fingerprint still resolves.

◆ SEALED
2026-07-24 03:11Z Case assembled

14 exhibits, cluster CN-0117, custody verified, enforcement packet issued.

◆ SEALED
Counterfeit detection

Stop counting listings.
Start naming operations.

Individual infringements are symptoms. Argus clusters sellers and infrastructure on shared signals — hosting blocks, TLS fingerprints, payment handles, creator-tool artefacts, publishing rhythm — so a hundred listings resolve to the handful of operators actually running them.

Signals that cluster

  • Shared hosting blocks, name servers, and TLS fingerprints
  • Reused payment handles and processor identifiers
  • Identical creator-tool metadata across unrelated-looking sellers
  • Derivatives descending from the same parent asset
  • Synchronised publishing windows and price movements
  • Shared logistics patterns and fulfilment origins

What that changes

  • One consolidated case instead of forty separate notices
  • Escalation to platform trust teams with network evidence attached
  • Registrar and host escalation supported by shared-infrastructure proof
  • Repeat-infringer records that survive seller-account churn
  • Measurable reduction in recurrence rather than in ticket count
  • A defensible basis for prioritising which operators to pursue
Trademark enforcement

Enforcement is a documentation problem.

By the time a matter reaches counsel, the questions are always the same: when did we first see it, what changed, how do we know the capture is intact, and who else is involved. Argus answers all four before anyone asks, and packages the answers in a form your legal team and the platform both accept.

  • Exhibit-numbered PDF plus structured JSON for every case
  • Custody report that can be verified offline against a published manifest
  • Pre-filled platform notice forms and complaint drafts by jurisdiction
  • Genealogy and cluster analysis attached as supporting exhibits
  • Full audit trail of who viewed, annotated, and exported what

Argus supports enforcement workflows and produces auditable records. It is not a substitute for legal counsel and makes no guarantee of any legal outcome.

Enforcement packetcustody verified
Case
CASE-2026-0741 · MERIDIAN v. SF-8841-QQ
Exhibits
14 (A–N) · all custody-verified
Included
original bytes · page render · DOM · HAR · headers · TLS chain · genealogy · cluster map
Verification
manifest 4b81ff29c7a3…d0e2 · RFC 3161 countersigned
Packet
platform notice · complaint draft · registrar escalation
Pushed to
servicenow://INC0094412 · ACK 03:11:44Z
PDFJSON offline verifiableaudit trail
Marketplace and social intelligence
SELLERSSeller-level behaviour

Listing velocity, catalogue overlap, price laddering, and review patterns across platforms.

LISTINGSListing context

Extracted title, price, stock, shipping origin, and claimed authorisation, captured as served.

ACCOUNTSSocial account correlation

Promotion accounts linked to storefronts by imagery, timing, and audience overlap.

CAMPAIGNSCampaign detection

Coordinated pushes identified as one event rather than nineteen unrelated detections.

Industries

Different mandates. Same requirement: proof.

LUXURY & APPARELGrey market and replicas

Separate authorised resale from replica production, and cluster the operations behind both.

PHARMA & MEDICALPackaging and serialisation

Detect falsified packaging and label variants where a counterfeit is a patient-safety event.

CONSUMER ELECTRONICSAccessories and certification

Track counterfeit accessories and misused certification marks across marketplaces and app stores.

MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENTUnlicensed IP and synthetics

Trace character and likeness reuse, including generative derivatives with no content credentials.

FINANCIAL SERVICESBrand impersonation

Find phishing kits and fraudulent apps reusing your visual identity before your customers do.

AUTOMOTIVE & INDUSTRIALSafety-critical parts

Identify counterfeit parts and forged certification documents inside supplier channels.

GOVERNMENT & NGOCoordinated activity

Attribute imagery across networks with custody standards that survive external review.

LEGAL & IP FIRMSEvidence for filings

Exhibit-ready packages with verifiable custody, cutting preparation from weeks to hours.

Cyber Conclave · Argus

Bring us the case you could not close.

We will run your marks against live acquisition, show you the derivatives and the network behind them, and hand you a preserved evidence package to take to counsel.

Or email sales@cyberconclave.io