An abusive IP address list can paralyze hosting, marketing and cybersecurity companies by preventing their services from reaching the right customers or enabling them to complete transactions. IP address abuse can come in many forms like phishing attacks, spam or copyright infringements. It can leave a mark on IP reputation that affects the ability of businesses to operate their systems and erodes trust.

The best way to protect against IP address abuse is to adopt robust security practices, implement rigorous monitoring and establish abuse reporting channels for users and partners. Rigorous KYC checks can help prevent bad actors from gaining access to your network and ensure that any existing reputation issues are resolved promptly. It’s also important to make it easy for anyone to report suspicious activity and have a robust system in place for resolving those reports.

Abuse IP Address Reputation

IP address reputation is an important indicator of how trustworthy and safe a connected device or network is, and it’s often the underlying cause of issues like blacklisting or service disruptions. The good news is that it’s easy to fix, and it’s essential to prevent reputation damage from phishing, DDoS attacks, spam, malware and more.

The first step is to use a threat intelligence platform that integrates with IPXO Marketplace to detect and block malicious IP addresses in real-time. To find out if a specific IP address is on an abusive IP list, look at the last two columns: Their % and This %. A high value in either column indicates that the IP address is being used by other lists.