Account Takeover Prevention

Account takeover prevention.
Keep customers in control.

Unauthorized sign-ins threaten customer accounts and saved value. ShieldLabs detects account takeover around web access, helping you protect sensitive actions while familiar customers keep moving.

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Welcome back

Sign in to your account.

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Risk detected

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Account takeover detected

Protect customer access

Help prevent unauthorized control of established customer accounts.

Safeguard saved value

Help protect balances, rewards and stored benefits around sensitive actions.

Reduce recovery disruption

Help keep takeover incidents from disrupting customer access and support.

Welcome familiar customers

Keep trusted account access moving with fewer unnecessary checks.

Account takeover detection

Stop unauthorized access.
Protect customer accounts.

ShieldLabs detects account takeover and bots around customer access. Help stop automated credential stuffing attempts and protect saved balances, payment details and rewards before sensitive actions.

Genuine customer access

Welcome trusted access.
Keep good customers moving.

Ready-made risk assessments distinguish trusted, suspicious and dangerous activity. Help protect customer accounts while keeping familiar access smooth.

Expose disguised sign-ins

Detect proxies, anti-detect browsers and location spoofing around account access.

Catch impossible travel

Receive a ready-made detection when account activity involves implausible travel.

Protect verification flows

Detect browser bots around repeated OTP requests before they consume verification spend.

The ShieldLabs platform

More than a risky login.
Ready-made account protection.

Connect account takeover detection with persistent identity, device and network intelligence, bot detection, named signals and traffic quality analytics.

Enterprise-level functionality. Without enterprise pricing.

Accurate identification

Recognize returning visitors even when they clear cookies, use incognito mode or change their IP address. Detect linked users with different email addresses.

99.9%

Identification accuracy

UsersDevicesVisitorsPublic IPsLocal IPsCookiesSessions

High-Risk Event detection

Detect account abuse out of the box by automatically identifying linked users. No fraud model training is required.

Risk signals

Get ready-made detections of automation, masking and spoofing, with named risk signals behind each result.

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Bot & AI traffic detection

Detect bot activity from browser automation signals. Recognize useful crawler and AI traffic alongside abuse detections.

Risk scoring

Score every visit from 0 to 100 and classify it as trusted, suspicious or dangerous. See the signals behind each score.

Device fingerprinting

Recognize devices by their fingerprints. Identify the browser, operating system and device type. Detect headless browsers and tampering.

IP & Network Intelligence

Reveal the real IP address and geolocation behind masking. Detect VPNs, proxies and private relays.

Traffic quality scoring and risk analytics

Get one score for all your traffic and ready-made quality results by source, channel, referrer and UTM campaign.

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Trusted61.0%Suspicious24.5%Dangerous14.5%

Analytics dashboard

See detected account takeover.
Protect customer access.

Find detected account takeover, affected users and devices, and ready-made risk assessments. Get named risk signals with the detected event.

How it works

Start protecting your product.

Connect once and start receiving ready-made fraud and abuse detections.

  1. 01

    Add the snippet or SDK

    Connect your product and start identifying visitors and users.

  2. 02

    Receive ready-made detections

    Get detected fraud and account abuse in the dashboard or through API integrations.

  3. 03

    Prevent fraud and abuse

    Protect customer accounts, paid access and signup incentives in your product.

Developers

Integrate in
5 minutes.

A single API to identify, detect and score. Receive risk data through API responses and webhooks. Integrate selected data points into your business logic to prevent fraud and abuse.

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Protect your users and product

Make abuse visible.
Keep genuine users moving.

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FAQ

Understand the evidence.
Put it to work.

What is account takeover?

Account takeover is unauthorized access to another customer’s account, often to misuse its data, access or stored value.

How does ShieldLabs help prevent account takeover?

ShieldLabs detects account takeover, bots and risky access around sign-in and sensitive actions. Ready-made detections help protect customer accounts, purchases and reward redemptions.

What does account takeover detection return?

ShieldLabs returns a completed account takeover detection alongside the identification’s risk assessment and named signals.

Is a new device always an account takeover?

No. A device change does not itself mean account takeover. ShieldLabs returns a separate takeover detection when it detects the event.

Can account takeover be detected on an anonymous visit?

Account takeover is an account-level event. Pass the registered account identifier when available to receive applicable detections.

Can I use detections in my login workflow?

Yes. Ready-made account takeover and risk results are available through supported integrations for the access workflows in your product.

How can ShieldLabs help with credential-stuffing attempts?

ShieldLabs detects browser bots at login and returns account takeover detections around account access. Ready-made risk assessments help protect sign-in and sensitive actions from automated abuse.