Red Points vs Allure Security
Red Points
Red Points started in counterfeit removal and now covers brand impersonation, anti-piracy, domain management, grey market sellers and deepfakes. Its impersonation service is fully managed, removing fake accounts, phishing sites, ads, domains and apps, and uses AI that analyses images, text and video to find impersonators; the company says it scans more than 1.4 billion domains. Plans are tailored and quoted, with unlimited takedowns. Red Points was founded in Barcelona in 2011 and is now based in New York, and says it has more than 300 employees and 1,300 brand customers.
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Pricing: Tailored plans with unlimited takedowns, quoted on request.
Allure Security
Allure Security detects and removes brand impersonation across websites and domains, social media, mobile app stores and paid advertising, with takedowns carried out by its own 24/7 security operations centre working directly with registrars and hosts. The company says its AI ingests more than 1.5 billion URLs a day to catch fake sites while they are still being set up, and it also offers executive protection, dark web monitoring, fake online store protection and protection against phone scams. Allure Security grew out of DARPA-funded research at Columbia University, was founded in 2009 and is based in Boston. In 2026 it raised a $17 million Series B, bringing its total funding to $43 million.
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Pricing: Quoted on request.