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Azizi Developments is a design and customer
lead development company. This means
a permanent dedication to understanding
and meeting clients’ aspirations, developing
distinctive homes that set the standard in
contemporary building design and offering
an unparalleled level of customer service.
A simple search for social media risk
monitoring led him to the discovery of
ZeroFOX – a company that also is a leader in
Gartner reports.
zizi Developments is the real
estate investment arm of Azizi
Group. Established in 2007 with
headquarters in Dubai, the company’s
diverse experience in the property market
has led the value of its current portfolio in
the Emirate to over AED45 billion, with more
than 200 projects in the pipeline.
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way to put an end to the mushrooming of
fake online profiles and properties.
Challenges
There were too many fake social media
accounts, resulting in a loss in the conversion
of social media leads into business. Another
challenge was the management of content
flow and there was lockdown on employee-
led social outreach.
Taking control of the process
Head of Cybersecurity at Azizi
Developments, Ankit Satsangi, took matters
into his own hands and decided to find a
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Outlining the biggest cybersecurity
challenges faced by the business, he said:
“Because we are in real estate, we see and
we expect a lot of phishing attacks targeting
CFOs and other c-level executives.
“We also expect a lot of fraudulent
transactions as well. Apart from that, social
media threats have really been trending,
such as c-level profile impersonations on
social media, brand reputation damage and
brand defamation. We also have domain
impersonations as well.”
SPECTRAMI implemented the system based
on the proactive threat intelligence provided
by Satsangi, which offered ZeroFOX for
comprehensive visibility on what Azizi aims
to achieve beyond the typical attack life-
cycle, adding context and priority to global
threats before, during and after an attack.
With this insight, it took less than a day to
set permissions, align keywords, tags and
other relevant information; Zerofox did a
clean sweep of all the different properties
that went against the corporate policy that
Satsangi and his team had set in place.
Taking control and shutting down all the
delinquent accounts on Twitter, Facebook and
Instagram was the first step. Under Satsangi’s
watchful guidance, ZeroFOX efficiently and
accurately targeted all the social platforms
and reported every errant account that had
been created along with contact information
of the person responsible for the account.
The security team then efficiently dealt
with the account by shutting them down
with prejudice and contacted the owners
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