How To Add Dark Web Monitoring To Your Business

Stolen user credentials (email addresses and passwords) found on the Dark Web can indicate that your company or a third-party application or website used by your employees has been compromised—so you can take immediate action. Cybercriminals traffic and buy stolen credentials so they can infiltrate your networks to steal your data. By monitoring the Dark Web for threat intelligence about stolen user data associated with your company’s domains, you can be alerted when a compromise is detected and then respond to stop a potentially costly and devastating data breach. 60% of data found on the dark web could potentially harm businesses.

MONITOR, IDENTIFY AND MITIGATE THREATS

Your business security strategy extends far beyond your network, and Dark Web ID can help strengthen it. Easily monitor for exposure and leverage rich threat intelligence to take the appropriate actions that will protect your company’s assets and reputation and lower the risk of breach.

SAAS BUSINESS APPLICATIONS INCREASE RISK Although web-based applications allow employees to do their jobs from most anywhere, they also open your organization to risk. Payroll and HR platforms, CRM and marketing automation tools, travel sites, banking sites and social media accounts are accessed by your employees many times throughout a day. A recent survey shows that 65% of people reuse the same password for multiple or all accounts—potentially the same one they use to log in to your network.

EMAIL MONITORING FOR HIGHLY TARGETED EXECS AND PRIVILEGED USERS Your executives and administrative users often have greater access to systems, information and sensitive data. If their personal email credentials are compromised and they happen to reuse the same credentials at work, the attackers may use them to gain access to corporate systems. The attackers may also use social engineering to impersonate your executives to trick other employees to give up access, divert funds, or for other schemes. Therefore, it’s important to monitor the personal mail addresses of your executive and administrative users along with their corporate email accounts.

EXTEND SECURITY TO THE SUPPLY CHAIN Some cyberattacks could happen due to exposure to third-party vendors from your supply chain. The interwoven systems of vendors and partners present security risks since data is shared across networks. The growing need for cyber supply chain risk management has prompted forward-thinking organizations to add Dark Web monitoring to vendor due diligence.

QUICKLY PROVIDE YOUR IT SECURITY TEAM THREAT INTELLIGENCE Are your security teams resource-constrained and focused on detecting and mitigating threats rather than installing new technology for monitoring? Dark Web ID takes just minutes to set up and will start showing compromise results right away. Reporting is flexible and can be integrated with your Security Operations Center (SOC) and other alerting and remediation platforms with available APIs.

HOLISTIC VISIBILITY By adding Dark Web ID monitoring to your security strategy, you will get a more complete picture of your company’s security posture. Not only does it serve as an early warning mechanism that alerts you before breaches occur, but it also provides invaluable data analytics to evaluate where employees need security awareness training or where multi-factor authentication and single sign-on are warranted.

Your team can easily add dark web monitoring to their security stack on a regular basis. Running a scan today would show you some easy gaps that could be fixed and offer a coaching moment to your team. Call us today to assist with this process and make it apart of your security today 416-900-6047 ext 322.