AUTHOR
Jamie Kloncz
Founder & CEO, RankShield
Jamie Kloncz is the founder and CEO of RankShield, the verifiable AI and quantum security platform. He started the company after two attacks landed in a single week: his phone was cloned, and his business was hit by a click-fraud campaign. One targeted him as a person, the other his livelihood, and no single tool defended both. That experience, together with surviving an AI voice-clone scam, shaped RankShield’s core belief: the threats of the AI age are personal first, and trust should be something you can check, not just extend.
Latest from Jamie Kloncz
Threat Intelligence Negative SEO: Can a Competitor Actually Attack Your Rankings? The reassuring truth: most link-based negative SEO no longer works, because Google ignores it. The vectors that do work are automated and hit your site directly. Here is which is which. Security Your Contact Form Is Full of Bots: How to Stop Form Spam and Fake Leads Your lead form is an open door bots walk through all day, filling your inbox with spam and fake leads that waste sales time and pollute your data. Here is why it happens, and how to stop the bots before they reach your form. WordPress Security SEO Poisoning and the Japanese Keyword Hack: How Attackers Hijack Your Rankings A hacked site can be filled with thousands of cloaked spam pages that steal its Google rankings and get it flagged as dangerous. Here is how the attack works and how to shut the door. Edge & Hosting The Same Bots Drain Your Ad Spend and Your Rankings. One Layer Defends Both. Automated traffic attacks your paid clicks and your organic pages at the same time. Most stores cover one, badly, and leave the other open. Here is how one edge layer protects both. Ecommerce Fraud Gift Card Fraud on Shopify: Why Fraudsters Target Your Store (and How to Stop It) Gift cards are the fraud instrument of choice, and on your store that means stolen-card orders, drained balances, and chargebacks. Here is how it works and how to reduce it. Edge & Hosting Is Cloudflare’s Free Tier Enough to Protect Your Website? A Side-by-Side Cloudflare’s free tier is a genuinely strong baseline. Here is exactly where it runs out, and what a managed edge layer that runs on top of it adds. Quantum Do You Actually Need Post-Quantum Encryption for Your Website in 2026? The decisive answer for a normal site: you probably already have the part that matters, for free. Here is what is actually at risk, how to check, and when to act. Ad Fraud ClickCease vs RankShield Edge Protection: Ads and Rankings, Side by Side ClickCease guards paid-search clicks with an exclusion list. Edge protection filters bad traffic before it lands, across every platform and your organic rankings too. Here is the honest comparison. Agentic AI The Lethal Trifecta: Is Your AI Agent Exploitable? When an AI agent can touch private data, read untrusted content, and send data out, one hidden instruction can exfiltrate your data. Here is how to audit for it. Agentic Commerce x402 and Agent-to-Agent Payments: The Trust Problem No One Is Talking About x402 lets AI agents pay per request in stablecoins, settled onchain in seconds. There is no chargeback and no recourse, and that quietly moves the entire trust burden upstream. Fraud & Identity Deepfake Voice Scams: How Business Owners Beat a CEO Voice Clone AI can clone your CEO from seconds of audio, and you cannot catch it by ear. Here is the callback-and-authorization control model that stops the wire anyway. Edge & Hosting What Website Downtime Actually Costs a Small Business (and How to Prevent It) The scary per-hour downtime figures come from enterprise surveys. Here is how to calculate your real number, why small sites go down, and how to keep yours up.