Have I Been Squatted vs CloudSEK

• Choose CloudSEK XVigil when brand risk spans social pages, rogue apps, credential leaks and the dark web as well as domains, and you want CloudSEK's team to run takedowns beyond domains. ^1–7
• Choose Have I Been Squatted to investigate malicious domains down to their redirects, page content and live site, then have a rule block them in Zscaler, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint or Cloudflare Zero Trust. ^8–21
• Use both when you need XVigil's wider coverage plus Have I Been Squatted's domain rules and connector actions, with one team owning domain triage and takedown requests. ^{1–4,10–11,13–14,18–21}

At a glance#

Have I Been Squatted and CloudSEK XVigil on the decisions a buyer weighs first.

	Have I Been Squatted	CloudSEK XVigil
Lookalike discovery
Lookalike discovery	Permutations, certificate transparency, newly registered domains, business context22–23	Fake Domain Finder with asset and watchword monitoring3,24
Follow-up on known fakes
Follow-up on known fakes	Scheduled lookups of every monitored domain22	Fake Domains Observer re-scans on WHOIS, SSL or re-registration25
Evidence to inspect
Evidence to inspect	Screenshots and an isolated browser9,12	Event screenshots and text dumps26
Mail telemetry
Mail telemetry	Yes: Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace27–28	Not found: Not found29
Response in your tools
Response in your tools	Rules alert, block, annotate and request Takedowns13–17	API and named SIEM, SOAR and chat integrations29–30
Managed takedowns
Managed takedowns	Domains, to host and registrar, with escalation31–34	Domains, social, apps, fake support numbers, DMCA1,3,6
Beyond domains
Beyond domains	Not covered: social, apps, dark web, credentials35–36	Dark web, credentials, social, apps, executive impersonation1–4
How you buy
How you buy	Self-serve monitoring subscription22,34	12-month contracts on AWS Marketplace2

Coverage beyond lookalike domains#

XVigil suits a team responsible for social impersonation, rogue apps, credential leaks and dark web exposure as well as fake domains. Brand threat monitoring covers fake domains, fake apps, fake customer care numbers and fake social media pages, and deep and dark web monitoring watches forums, marketplaces and paste sites. Data leak monitoring covers leaked credentials, exposed documents and stolen datasets, and buyers can take one module or several. CloudSEK also sells BeVigil for external attack surface management and products for third-party risk, AI attack surface exposure and threat intelligence, and Nexus AI correlates findings across them. ^{1–3,37–40}

Have I Been Squatted concentrates on domains and the threats built on them. Domain Monitoring generates lookalikes and watches certificate transparency and newly registered domains. Email Intelligence connects Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace and matches the sender, recipient and URL domains in your mail to monitored domains, with no MX changes. Site Canaries add a script to your own pages and flag a copy that loads on a hostname you do not recognize. No public documentation of a Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace mailbox integration for XVigil was found. ^{22–23,27–29,34,41–42}

Finding and investigating lookalike domains#

XVigil's Fake Domain Finder uses monitored assets and watchwords to find suspected impersonation domains, and CloudSEK describes an in-house permutation engine for typosquatting. Fake Domains Observer re-scans known fakes after a WHOIS change, an SSL certificate update or a repurchase, so analysts can revisit a dormant domain when its infrastructure changes. Event evidence can include screenshots and text dumps. ^3,24–26

Have I Been Squatted gives your analysts the domain evidence to inspect. Discovery combines generated lookalikes, with named kinds such as homoglyphs, bitsquats and TLD swaps, with certificate transparency and newly registered domains. Have I Been Squatted states that each monitored domain gets a lookup at least once every 24 hours. Each result can include RDAP registration data, hosting details, DNS records, mail readiness, open ports and a website capture, and an analyst can open the site in an isolated browser. ^{9–12,22–23,34,43–47}

The two products suit different investigation habits. XVigil's Observer suits analysts who revisit known fakes after infrastructure changes. Have I Been Squatted suits analysts who check DNS, mail readiness and page evidence before they choose a response. ^{9–12,22–23,25,34,44–47}

To connect threats, CloudSEK's Nexus AI links leaked credentials, lookalike domains and phishing pages into a potential attack path. That view joins findings across CloudSEK's modules, which suits a team that tracks credentials and domains together. ^1,39

Have I Been Squatted pivots on the infrastructure itself through Atlas investigations, in early access. An investigation begins from a hunt you describe, optionally seeded with up to 25 domains you already suspect, and follows shared infrastructure across Atlas, the store of domain observations. An admin can add indicators such as IP addresses, nameservers or favicon hashes for it to pivot on. It keeps running after the first pass, re-checking its rarest values every six hours, and lays results out in views such as Tree, Table, Clusters and Flows. Findings export as STIX 2.1, CSV or JSON. ^32,46–51

Acting on a finding in your own tools#

XVigil connects to the security stack through a two-way Integrations API and named connectors. CloudSEK lists SIEM, SOAR, ticketing and chat apps among more than 50 applications, plus STIX and TAXII feeds. The pull-based API reads alerts and writes status, assignee, comments and remediation back to CloudSEK records. For CloudSEK customers, a hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server lets AI clients read alerts and evidence and update incidents and events in bulk, and each analyst connects with their own token. No public documentation was found of a takedown request through the API or MCP server, or of a direct push from XVigil into secure web gateways. ^{3,5,7,26,29–30,52–56}

Have I Been Squatted puts response in rules that run over domain signals. A maintained rules library covers common detections, and your team can add its own. One rule can raise an alert, deliver the finding to a SIEM, push the domain to a block list, annotate the result with a status such as Malicious, or request a Takedown. Network Enforcement sends flagged domains to gateways, endpoints, mail filters and a hosted domain feed. The Have I Been Squatted MCP server covers lookups, monitoring queries, rules, alerts, Takedowns, response dispatch, result annotation and documentation search, and every write needs an organization admin. ^{10–11,13–21,34,50,57–60}

During evaluation, follow one finding into your SIEM and through the response you need, such as a ticket, a block or a Takedown request. With XVigil, the ticket comes through a connector such as ServiceNow, and the takedown starts in the CloudSEK portal. The block runs in your own tools, for example through a SOAR connector or a reader for CloudSEK's STIX or TAXII feeds. With Have I Been Squatted, one rule can deliver the finding, push the block and open the Takedown request. ^{3,5,7,13–15,26,29–30}

Takedowns

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Managed takedowns and their targets#

Both products offer managed domain takedowns, and XVigil also takes down fake social accounts, unofficial apps on third-party app stores, fake customer support numbers and DMCA cases. CloudSEK states that its in-house team handles submission, follow-ups and confirmation, and sends the evidence to hosts and registrars. One PeerSpot reviewer describes clicking takedown in the portal and seeing the page removed within three to four working days. ^{1,3,5–7,26,30}

CloudSEK publishes its own takedown results. For the fourth quarter of 2024, it reports more than 2,200 successful takedowns and a 4.1 business day average turnaround. Its 96 percent success rate assumes that pending requests succeed at the same rate. CloudSEK also states that fake social media handles come down in just over two business days. ^1,5–7,61

Have I Been Squatted runs managed Takedowns for domains. An analyst reviews every request, and a rule can open a request automatically. The team reports the domain to its host and registrar, then escalates to ICANN and regional CSIRTs where necessary, and it stops short of legal action but can introduce legal partners. Each case shows its status from review through provider notification to completion, with analyst notes. Have I Been Squatted states that, with enough evidence, a registrar or host usually responds within four hours, and that some cases take up to 24 or 72 hours. ^31–34,62

Where CloudSEK XVigil is the better choice#

XVigil fits a team whose digital risk reaches well past domains. Nexus AI can link leaked credentials, lookalike domains and phishing pages into a potential attack path. CloudSEK targets mid-market and enterprise organizations in regulated or threat-heavy industries, and PeerSpot users give XVigil an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. ^{1–2,7,39,63}

XVigil also suits buyers who want an in-house team to take down social accounts and apps as well as domains. Its two-way API writes status, comments and remediation back to CloudSEK records. Both products ship an MCP server with write tools, so agent access alone does not separate them. For procurement, CloudSEK lists ISO/IEC 27001, 42001, 22301 and 27017 certifications, and its trust center marks SOC 2 as compliant. Ask CloudSEK for its current SOC 2 report to confirm the report type and scope. CloudSEK sells XVigil by module, singly or combined, and lists 12-month contracts on AWS Marketplace. That listing offers a free trial on terms CloudSEK sets, and CloudSEK also takes requests for free access to XVigil. ^{1–3,5–7,26,30,50,52–55,57–60,64–66}

Where Have I Been Squatted is the better choice#

Pick Have I Been Squatted when your team works malicious domains and the attacker infrastructure behind them, and wants to see what a domain does before acting. Lookalikes of your own domains come from Domain Monitoring, and Analyze inspects any other domain on demand. Results record the redirect chain, the DOM and a HAR capture of network requests, and page semantics flag behavior such as a request for an account password. When the domain serves a site, an analyst can open it in a live, isolated browser session and step through it. ^{8–12,23,34,57–58,67–68}

Two more differences sit at either end of the queue. Domain Monitoring checks your domains continuously, adding certificate transparency and newly registered domains to the lookalikes it generates. Network Enforcement sends rule-flagged domains straight to Zscaler, iboss, Cloudflare Zero Trust and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. Tools that poll a block list can read a hosted domain feed in seven formats, among them STIX 2.1 and NDJSON, with documented MISP setup. Network Intelligence then shows whether devices on your network connected to a flagged domain. Managed Takedowns cover takedown and disruption of malicious infrastructure, starting with reports to the host and registrar. ^{14,18–23,31–34,69}

A team can sign up and run its first lookups on its own. Monitoring, hunting tools, rules and alerts are self-serve with a free trial, while Takedowns and the email, network, SIEM and canary products are bought through sales. Results leave as a PDF "Domain security overview" or "Compliance readout", or as CSV and JSON exports. Have I Been Squatted has a SOC 2 Type II report, available through its Trust Center, and offers single sign-on with audit logging. ^{12–13,22,32,34,46,50–51,57–58,69–71}

Have I Been Squatted does not monitor social media, app stores, the dark web, ads or leaked credentials. It does not suit a buyer who wants those channels and domain protection from one vendor. XVigil brings those areas into one platform. ^1,35–36,39

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