Are Your Digital Business Credentials for Sale on the Dark Web?
Businesses depend on their digital credentials for daily operations. These credentials, such as usernames and passwords, connect businesses and their employees to online services and critical business applications, allowing access to intellectual property, financial information and client data. Employees are guilty of re-using login credentials across multiple accounts, a fact which is exploited by cyber-criminals and makes business credentials highly valuable on the Dark Web. Far too often, companies that have had their credentials compromised and sold on the Dark Web don’t know it until they have been either informed by the authorities or suffer a data breach.
It doesn’t matter how sophisticated your IT security is. If your credentials have been compromised, then your business is at risk of a data breach.
What is the Dark Web?
The Dark Web is part of the internet that isn’t visible to search engines (such as Google and Bing). It is comprised of digital communities that sit on top of the main internet and requires the use of an anonymising browser called Tor to be accessed. While there are some legitimate purposes to the Dark Web, it is estimated that over 50% of all sites are used for il activities such as the purchase of drugs, weapons, credit card information and stolen digital credentials.
Dark Web Monitoring Service
Scanning over 700,000 sites on the Dark Web, our Dark Web Monitoring solution detects compromised business credentials in real-time. Our advanced software notifies us immediately if these critical assets are compromised before they can be used to exploit your business for extortion, fraud, identity theft, data breaches, or other criminal activities. Frequent scans and monitoring, combined with other cyber security services such as Vulnerability Assessments can vastly improve the security posture of your organisation.
