Dark Web Monitoring
Historically, only large organisations would seek to monitor the dark web for breaches, however, now it is a sensible precaution for any business. To understand the risk, it is useful to know the different layers that exist within the internet:
Surface Web – also known as “Visible Web” - the part of the web that we are all familiar with and use every day. It’s content is indexed by search engines such as Google and Bing and DuckDuckGo.
Deep Web - contains content that is not indexed and so cannot be accessed by search engines. This can include certain banking services, private email services, storage services and other sensitive data, etc..
Dark Web - a network of anonymous websites and forums hidden in the deep web. This is where stolen or leaked information is usually traded or even given away for free. To access the dark web, you need specialized software.
Our cyber security experts use specialised monitoring tools to scan for individual personal information like email addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and passport numbers, etc.. We use scrapers, crawlers, and scanners to scour hundreds of dark web websites per day, looking for your clients’ information and when a match is found, notify you so that protective measures can be put in place.