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Preserve Connect & Fraud for Logistics Tech

Settlement run is tomorrow.
The carrier just sent
new bank details.

Logistics platforms move money through long partner chains. One fraudulent bank change, indistinguishable from routine AP traffic, can divert an entire freight payment cycle. Preservers monitors partner exposure and intercepts payment hijacks before settlement executes.

A typical settlement-week pattern

"Monday morning, AP receives an email from a trusted 3PL: 'Please update our ACH details before Thursday's settlement run across the Midwest lanes.' The format matches prior requests. The record is updated. Thursday's run sends $380,000 to an account the real carrier never owned."

The partner inbox was compromised two weeks earlier. The attacker waited for the payment cycle they learned from your own TMS notifications. Your platform's trust layer became the attack vector.

Discovery

$2.9B

US BEC losses reported in 2024

48%

Of supply chain fraud involves vendor impersonation

<20%

Recovery rate once freight payments have cleared

<20 min

Preservers deployment without IT overhaul

What we hear from logistics leaders

Why payment fraud succeeds.
even with secure platforms.

TMS and WMS security protects your application. Attackers target the partner network, payment instructions, and exposed integration endpoints that your operations depend on daily.

We verify carrier bank details with a call-back before every payment run.

Call-backs stop basic errors. They do not stop a compromised carrier inbox sending updated ACH details from a look-alike domain your AP team has processed hundreds of times. By the time someone calls, the record is already updated.

Verification after update is too late

Our TMS is secure, the risk is on the carrier side.

Your platform connects shippers, carriers, 3PLs, and payment rails into one workflow. A weak partner portal or exposed integration endpoint bypasses your internal controls. Your perimeter is the network, not the datacenter.

Partner exposure is your exposure

We assess vendors quarterly, that covers our 3PL network.

Questionnaires capture a moment. Partners ship new tracking portals, renew certificates, and leave old subdomains live between assessments. Continuous freight operations need continuous external visibility.

Quarterly snapshots go stale in days

The freight payment fraud chain

Five steps. One settlement run.
Funds gone in hours.

This is the documented pattern behind vendor payment fraud in high-volume logistics operations. AP teams face this weekly without tooling that detects impersonation at preparation stage.

1

Week 1, Reconnaissance

The attacker maps your payment cycle

They study your TMS notifications, carrier onboarding emails, and public integration docs. They identify which 3PL handles high-volume lanes and when your AP team runs freight payments.

2

Week 2, The compromise

A partner inbox or look-alike domain

Either a carrier email account is compromised, or they register a domain one character off your trusted partner. logistics-partner.com becomes logistics-partners.com. To AP processing hundreds of invoices weekly, it blends in.

3

Week 3, The setup

Updated payment instructions arrive

"We've migrated to a new banking partner. Please update our ACH details before next week's settlement run." Tone, formatting, and lane references match prior correspondence. Your team updates the vendor record.

4

Settlement day

The payment run executes

High-volume freight payments flow to the new account. No single transaction looks anomalous. Totals across lanes aggregate into six figures before anyone notices the carrier never received funds.

5

Discovery

The carrier calls about missing payment

Operations escalates. AP discovers the bank change email was fraudulent. Recovery is unlikely. The shipper asks whether your platform's vendor controls failed. Your integration became the trust layer that got exploited.

How Preservers helps

Three things happen.
before AP acts on a bad instruction.

We do not slow settlement cycles. We give operations and security teams early warning on partner exposure and payment hijacks, with evidence shippers and insurers expect.

01

Partner network visibility

Preserve Connect monitors carriers, 3PLs, and payment partners continuously. When a partner exposes a new portal or certificate lapse, you see it before it becomes your incident.

02

Freight payment fraud interception

Preserve Fraud detects look-alike domains and bank-change patterns tied to your vendor payment cycles, intercepting hijacks before settlement runs execute.

03

Operational trust evidence

Preserve Compliance organizes proof for shipper reviews and insurance renewals. Audit trails are built automatically, not assembled under deadline pressure.

Preserve Connect

Your TMS is secure. Your partner network might not be.

Logistics platforms orchestrate payments and shipments across carriers, 3PLs, and integration partners. Preserve Connect gives you a live view of vendor external exposure: onboard partners simply, classify them by role, monitor continuously, and report to shippers without spreadsheet chaos.

Explore Preserve Connect

Built for logistics partner networks

  • Carriers and freight brokers on your platform
  • 3PLs, warehouses, and last-mile partners
  • Payment processors and AP settlement vendors
  • TMS, EDI, and tracking integration providers

Carrier & 3PL portfolio view

See every onboarded carrier, warehouse partner, and integration vendor in one risk summary. Prioritize outreach before a shipper audit or insurance renewal asks what you are doing about it.

Onboarding with classification

Add partners with basics, then classify carrier, 3PL, payment processor, or TMS integration. Classification drives the right scan surface and assessment depth for each relationship.

Continuous partner monitoring

Connect watches the internet-facing footprint of your network as it changes: new tracking portals, certificate lapses, forgotten subdomains at a 3PL you onboarded last year.

Shipper-ready vendor reports

Generate vendor risk reports for enterprise shipper RFPs, operational reviews, and cyber insurance. Evidence stays current across a partner network that never stands still.

How Connect works for logistics tech

01
Onboard carriers and 3PLs

Register partners from your TMS network with contact details and application URLs. No six-month procurement project required to start monitoring.

02
Classify by operational role

Tag vendors as carrier, 3PL, payment rail, or integration partner. A freight broker and a payment processor get different scan priorities and review workflows.

03
Monitor the partner perimeter

Connect maps external assets across your partner network continuously. When a carrier exposes an admin portal or certificate issue, you know before settlement week.

04
Report to shippers and insurers

Share vendor risk summaries when enterprise shippers run diligence or when underwriters ask for documented third-party controls. Reports reflect live monitoring, not last quarter's PDF.

Shipper & insurance evidence

Trust proof built for logistics operations

Shipper security reviews

Enterprise shipper diligence

Evidence of continuous vendor monitoring and external posture visibility for RFPs from retail, manufacturing, and enterprise shippers running formal vendor risk programs.

SOC 2 / ISO 27001

Platform trust proof

Documented controls for vendor management and external monitoring, supporting TMS and logistics platforms pursuing or maintaining SOC 2 and ISO certifications.

Cyber insurance renewal

Documented payment controls

Evidence packs structured for cyber insurance underwriters covering BEC, vendor impersonation, and third-party exposure, common renewal requirements for logistics tech.

Carrier & 3PL monitoring

Preserve Connect coverage

Continuous mapping of internet-facing assets across carriers, warehouses, and integration partners, not only the questionnaire they signed last quarter.

API & portal exposure

Preserve Surface coverage

Discovery of tracking endpoints, shipper portals, and integration APIs exposed beyond your intended perimeter, including forgotten staging environments.

Payment fraud interception

Preserve Fraud coverage

Detection of impersonation infrastructure and high-risk bank-change instructions before funds move through your platform's payment workflows.

Frequently Asked Questions

Your security perimeter includes every carrier, 3PL, payment processor, and TMS integration partner. A misconfigured portal at a partner can bypass your internal controls. Continuous external monitoring catches those exposures as they appear, not at the next quarterly assessment.

Preserve Connect onboards and monitors the external attack surface of carriers, 3PLs, and payment partners in your network. It classifies each vendor by operational role, watches their internet-facing footprint continuously, and produces vendor risk reports for shipper diligence and insurance renewals.

Attackers impersonate carriers or send fraudulent bank change requests that look routine in high-volume AP operations. Preserve Fraud correlates external threat signals with instruction context to intercept hijacks before funds move.

Quarterly questionnaires go stale the day after they are signed. Partner exposure changes when they ship new portals, renew certificates, or leave old subdomains live. Continuous monitoring fills the gap between assessment cycles.

No. Preservers adds external visibility and vendor monitoring that complements application security inside your platform. It covers the partner network and payment instruction layer that TMS firewalls cannot see.

Under twenty minutes for initial visibility. No DNS changes or endpoint agents. Designed for operations and security teams that need results without a six-month project.

TMS, WMS, freight marketplace, and 3PL platforms that move payments and shipment data through long partner chains and face shipper security reviews, insurance scrutiny, and high-volume vendor payment workflows.

Map partner exposure.
Protect every settlement run.

Continuous vendor monitoring and payment fraud interception for logistics platforms. Deploy in under twenty minutes without disrupting operations.

NEUTRALIZE YOUR RISKS

Carrier & 3PL visibility included