Potential cyber threats include breaches of financial credentials, identity theft, and ransom attacks aimed at gaining control of your data and harming your digital identity. What kinds of protection from these crimes exist, and how can they benefit you?
Awareness: The First Step Towards Security
When protecting your network data, it is necessary to implement a proactive approach to improve your chances of avoiding cybercrime. You are no longer completely secure by establishing firewalls or digital perimeters to keep hackers at bay. The sophistication of technology presents a growing challenge.
One of the more effective preventative measures is to set up early warning detections in areas where cybercrimes are planned and executed – the Dark Web. Containing encrypted content not indexed by conventional search engines, the Dark Web is filled with various bots, hackers, malicious software, and scams looking to take advantage of unsuspecting organizations.
An increasingly popular threat detection method involves monitoring the Dark Web for chatter about your company or organization. Suppose there is an attack being planned against your organization; in such a case, a Dark Web or Deep Web monitoring and scanning process can alert you and provide you with all available details of the attack so that you may implement effective countermeasures.
By creating awareness of potential attacks before they occur, businesses can take action to thwart the attack or mitigate its consequences. If a company sits idle and believes its defenses are strong enough, it increases the risks of sustaining serious harm.
Identifying threats and pinpointing needed defenses is a more strategic method for handling cybercrime. The AI systems working to identify potential threats also become more powerful as they learn what to look for on the Dark Web. Greater awareness benefits all aspects of a good defense strategy.
How Can Confidential Data End Up on the Dark Web?
Bits and pieces of your business’s data might already be spread across the Dark Web. Whether in partial informational data dumps or from more specific phishing or malware attacks, bits and pieces of our existence are regularly snatched in an attempt to monetize the information.
Even if our digital breadcrumbs exist on the Dark Web, they may be too small or incomplete to cause problems. That is until additional information is gathered and compiled to create a complete picture and reveal critical information, for example, about passwords and credentials. This is why it’s important to remain diligent and try to avoid the theft of confidential data.
Is Your Data on the Dark Web? ACID Will Know!
By investing in Dark Web monitoring, businesses and organizations are taking the necessary precautions to avoid becoming a data breach story on the evening news. Dark Web monitoring not only protects your data but also protects your reputation.
When it becomes known that a large company has experienced a data breach, public trust inevitably erodes. A company might have taken all the necessary precautions, but one slip and their customers’ information becomes a commodity on the Dark Web. Immediately, the detractors come swooping in to decry the lack of security.
Building back after a cyberattack is as much about financials as it is about gaining back the respect and trust of the public. By turning to Dark Web monitoring, a company is committing to keeping their business and clientele as safe as possible within the confines of cyberspace.
Dark Web monitoring identifies when and how data breaches may occur and determines how much data already exists and is being traded or bartered. Conversations in Dark Web cyberspace directly contribute to actions and motivations in the real world.
How Does Dark Web Monitoring Work?
When cybercriminals look for networks or databases to infiltrate, they search for language or clues in the coding to find weaknesses. Hackers also deploy bots to scan for information that can build leads continually.
Similarly, a Dark Web or Deep Web monitoring solution also looks for clues and language to help paint a clear picture of what threats exist. Discussions about security weaknesses, phishing discoveries, malware connections, or planned attacks can all travel through communication lines throughout the Dark Web at any time.
Continuous In-depth Monitoring
Dark Web monitoring employs armies of AI bots trained to identify even the most fragile threads of information and follow up on their viability. Since the bots are AI-based, they also improve their performance over time.
Hackers and cybercriminals wait for a company to slip up and expose a vulnerability in their defenses. Monitoring the Dark Web turns the tables by monitoring the communication of the cybercriminals when they don’t think anyone is aware. Now businesses are searching for cybercrime mistakes or communications as part of a multi-pronged defense strategy.
Get Real-time Alerts
Since ACID’s monitoring takes place 24/7/365, it updates the tracking and monitoring process when the information is of consequence. ACID uses these updates as methods for learning, too. By identifying potential threats, the system can also identify emerging security hacks before they happen, allowing companies to counter the threat before damage or data loss occurs.
Automated Services
With ACID, Dark Web monitoring is 100% automated and occurs 24/7/365. Alerts to potential threats, communications on the Dark Web about planned attacks on partners or affiliate companies that can impact the client or real-time updates on new activities are all part of ACID’s automated services. Effective, targeted countermeasures can then be implemented to thwart the attack or mitigate its consequences.
Is It Worth Investing in Dark Web Monitoring Services?
When considering why an organization should invest in a Dark Web or Deep Web monitoring system, it’s important to address all the problems a data breach or cyber attack can potentially cause a business.
For starters, there are financial costs that can add up. Cybercriminals can drain bank accounts and negatively impact financial holdings, but they can also disrupt or shut down day-to-day operations, further depleting revenue.
Businesses and organizations may also have to re-tool their computer networks, encrypt databases, and consider new options for cybersecurity. All these activities cost money, allocating employee time and efforts for these tasks. Taking employees away from their normal tasks further derails business operations.
Companies must also consider their reputation and the public’s trust in them. If there is doubt or confusion surrounding the viability and security of a company, the damage to a company’s reputation can be worse than the financial losses.
Finally, the ever-changing tech landscape makes it impossible to sit back and hope everything will remain the same. Advancements in computing and communication are exponential. Equally, methods to take advantage of sensitive information being transferred or stored are increasing daily.
By investing in Dark Web monitoring, organizations can take proactive steps to avoid all of these problems. Monitoring creates warnings for adjusting security settings and protecting valuable data. It also helps with security overhauls, which can be time-consuming and expensive.
Most importantly, investing in Dark Web monitoring indicates to clients that the company is committed to keeping vital data safe and positively affects public approval and the bottom line.
How Can ACID Help You?
Dark Web monitoring represents a new adaptive tool in the combat against hackers and cybercrime. Implementing a system that scans the Dark Web for suspicious activity and digital mentions can assist companies in effectively avoiding computerized victimization.
ACID offers state-of-the-art Deep and Dark Web monitoring solutions for business and organizational needs. Predictive and proactive measures can stop criminals in their tracks. Contact ACID today for a complete demo or to learn more about how the system protects your interests.