Website categorie

Posted by AcrobaticRush4626@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 4 comments

Hello everyone !

When you run a professional business website, should you proactively register or categorize it on specific platforms to build domain reputation from the start?

I'm thinking about sites like FortiGuard, Symantec, Cisco Talos, Trend Micro, etc. is there a standard list of places where a legitimate business should submit their domain to avoid being flagged as suspicious by security vendors?

Or is it something that's supposed to happen automatically over time?

Thanks

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shokzee@reddit

It mostly happens automatically, but a fresh domain will sit in "uncategorized" for a while and some corporate filters block that by default.

The big ones worth submitting to proactively: Cisco Talos, Fortinet/FortiGuard, Palo Alto, Symantec/BlueCoat, Forcepoint, McAfee/Trellix, Webroot, and Sophos. All have free category review forms. Takes 10 minutes total.

For email reputation specifically, that builds organically through sending volume and authentication. We use Suped to monitor DMARC aggregate reports across our domains so we catch reputation issues early instead of finding out when sales complains.

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SVD_NL@reddit

Secure your DNS, website and email, don't do bad stuff, and you'll be fine. Do register the domain ASAP and get a website online, some security solutions flag recently registered domains, but generally it just adds a tiny bit to a confidence score, and the website helps with SEO.

Any company that uses domain allowlisting will have their own allow list, and won't rely on vendor lists. For 99.9% of companies and visitors it's a matter of not getting on blacklists.

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Ok-Mousse7882@reddit

Fortinet has a filter for both "newly registered domain" and newly observed domain". afaik, both will get blocked by default. Usually, normal users are allowed to trigger evaluation. But of course it will be better of you take care of that in advance.

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user_is_always_wrong@reddit

Fortinet has a form on the FortiGuard website. https://www.fortiguard.com/faq/wfratingsubmit