What is Threat Intelligence?
Threat Intelligence refers to the collection, analysis, and dissemination of information about potential cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and risks that organisations face. By leveraging threat intelligence, businesses can proactively identify and respond to potential cyberattacks, ultimately enhancing their security posture and protecting valuable assets.
Why you need Dark Web monitoring
Monitoring the Dark Web is an essential cyber security strategy to protect sensitive data. The dark web is an illegal online marketplace, where malicious actors can buy, sell and exchange stolen credentials and other data sets. Criminal networks use this area of the web as a platform for selling personally identifiable information and financial records. Organisations are at risk of experiencing data theft and account hijacking if they fail to track activity on the dark web.
The use of stolen credentials remains the number one way criminals gain access to corporate networks and sensitive information. Employee accounts provide enticing access to corporate networks and systems, making them attractive targets for criminals.
After a breach takes place, attackers typically keep stolen data contained within a small group of trusted associates while they monetise it, often before the breached organization realises there’s been an incident. By the time the data leaks and the public becomes aware of the breach, stolen credentials have typically already been exposed for 18 to 24 months.
Over the past 2 years hacker activity has continued to grow due to the easy access of harmful software and data. There are on average 2,244 hacks a day, many of which use data on the Dark Web to start their attack.
60% of the data on the Dark Web can harm enterprises. The chances are that some of this information can be linked to your business. Actively scanning the Dark Web for this data allows you to recover it before it is sold to a threat actor.
The popularity of the Dark Web continues to grow and shows no sign of slowing down. With 2 million active users daily it is now a hub of confidential information and leaked data. It is now more important than ever for businesses to proactively search their threat landscape.
When data is leaked on the Dark Web or made public it can heavily effect a business’s reputation, especially if the data is related to your clients.
Most sensitive data on the Dark Web is sold to hacker groups and solo threat actors who use it in a sophisticated attack against a business. Without knowing what data is out there, you cannot protect against these attacks.
Our Dark Web monitoring solutions can protect corporate domains and their online reputation as well as VIPs within the company. These can be offered either directly to your business for your cybersecurity team to run internally or as a managed service.