Online identities are an integral part of our daily lives. Almost all of our online activities such as social networking, shopping, banking and private communication as well as business communication, are bound to our digital identities. Even fields of our lives that are extremely critical from privacy perspective such as healthcare and governance are nowadays digital and require our identification based on our online identity. The ongoing digital transformation of our lives determines our online identity as one of our most valuable assets that become more and more interesting for cyber criminals.

5.6 BILLION EMAIL ACCOUNTS WORLDWIDE BY THE END OF 2019

There are approx. 5.6 Billion email accounts worldwide representing approx. 4.7 Billion unique online identities. The expectations are that by the end of 2020, the number of digital identities will increase to 5.9 Billion. In other words, there will be 5.9 Billion valuable online identities representing 5.1 Billion potential unique victims of cybercrimes such as identity theft, financial and other fraud. If the numbers are seen from financial perspective, cybercrimes that involve our stolen online identities are Multibillion Business for cyber criminals.

573 MILLION ONLINE IDENTITIES STOLEN IN 2018

The continuously increasing interest of cyber criminals for our valuable online identities is clearly derived from the fact that between 2014 and 2017 - 384 Million digital identities were stolen and compromised. The dimensions of this alarming trend are confirmed by the fact that in 2018 the amount of compromised online identities (573 Million) was almost twice the amount of the previous years. By analyzing only the first quarter of 2019, the situation becomes even worse.

THE PROTECTION OF YOUR ONLINE IDENTITY IS OUR MISSION

The team of experts staying behind the BULIDSEC Email Identity Guard have more than 25 years of experience in the cyber security field. The most experienced of us have been working in various technical and management positions, fighting against cyber criminals for years. During the years, the BULIDSEC Email Identity Guard experts built an extremely broad personal network of cyber security experts from all over the world and a unique set of connections and various sources in the underground cyber space. These are utilized daily for the identification of new data leaks (identity theft) that contain exposed email account credentials and further privacy related information, such as names, addresses, phones, payment data, etc.

In addition to the 24/7 personal monitoring and investigation for stolen online identities, we built a novel set of machine learning and AI based algorithms, running continuously in the BULIDSEC Email Identity Guard cloud that perform  big data analysis of million suspicious data sets that we discover daily in the underground cyber space.

Time is one of the most important factors, when it comes to stolen and compromised online identities. By being 5 days on average faster than competitors, the BULIDSEC Email Identity Guard protection services significantly minimize possible financial and trust damage that our customers may experience if their digital identities are part of a data leak. Our customers rely on 7 years of history of identified privacy-related data leaks (identity theft).