DARK WEB MONITORING SERVICE
ACID Technologies provides 24/7/365 dark web monitoring services to companies and organizations operating in a wide variety of sectors and industries , including banking and finance, healthcare, education, transportation, state and local government, retail, and others. The monitoring conducted by ACID is meticulously and specifically tailored for each client in terms of keywords and languages, in order to yield optimal results. Once a threat is detected, the intended victim is alerted in real time and provided with all available details, to enable it to effectively respond. Additional information is provided as it becomes available, enabling to fine-tune the response. By implementing targeted countermeasures, the organization can reduce the harmful consequences of the attack – be they disruption to operation, loss of business, payment of heavy regulatory fines, reputational damage, or other. Where the detected threat is an attack still in its planning stage, it can potentially be thwarted altogether.
What is the dark web used for?
The dark web is a part of the internet that includes sites that are not indexed by commonly used search engines, such as Google. They are accessible only through anonymized software like the browser Tor or I2P, which uses a distributed network database. Users are thus able to maintain their confidentiality: both their identity (IP address), and the websites they choose to visit.
These characteristics make the dark web attractive to cybercriminals, who use it for illicit activity such as selling drugs, weapons and malware.
On the dark web, cybercriminals also share information, develop and coordinate cyber attacks, negotiate Ransom as a Service (Raas) transactions, and sell confidential information that they have obtained by breaching targeted organizations’ systems (for example, credit card information, personally identifiable information (PII), login credentials, financial information, medical records and more). The perpetrators are often motivated by the prospect of financial gain – either by selling the stolen information or using it to extort its original owners.
Groups motivated by ideology, whether political, social, environmental or other, are also known to have used the dark web to plan and coordinate demonstrations or attacks on organizations they perceive as adversaries.
It should be noted, however, that the dark web is also used for non-criminal activity, for example, by journalists who must protect their identity in countries that do not respect privacy and allow free speech.
What does dark web monitoring consist of, and why is it important?
Dark web monitoring is essentially a continuous search of the dark web with the aim of detecting threats. Given the enormous amount of information found on the dark web, in order to yield effective results, the monitoring must be as precise as possible, using keywords and terms that are specific to the information sought. When the languages relevant to the organization that has engaged a dark web monitoring service provider are also taken into consideration in the search parameters, as ACID does, the results are even more accurate, and therefore, more actionable.
The importance of dark web monitoring lies in its ability to detect threats – those that are emerging, and those that have already materialized and caused damage to the targeted organization. Knowledge is key here: An organization that receives real-time alerts to threats, such as information about a cyber attack being planned against it along with all available details, can act upon this information and take the necessary mitigation steps. Also, an organization that learns that its data has been compromised and is posted on the dark web can investigate how, when and by whom it had been stolen. Often, this will point to a security gap in its systems that it is unaware of, one that possibly occurred weeks or months earlier and may still require closing to prevent further data leakage. Knowing which data has been compromised also allows taking action to lessen the harmful consequences of the breach. Providing these real-time actionable alerts and information is precisely what ACID does.
How Does Deep and Dark Web Monitoring Protect Your Business?
Data Breach Detection
Leverage ACID’s AI-enabled deep web monitoring tools to detect malicious activity on dark web networks, attempting to steal your credentials and other sensitive and critical data. Our deep web monitoring tools help your business rigorously scan the dark, deep, and open web for the first signs of an impending attack, to shorten your TTM (time to mitigate) and implement effective countermeasures
Detection of Threats Targeting Assets
Cybercriminals on the deep and dark web can leverage encrypted browsers to create anonymous identities. Since their digital presence is hidden, tracking their actions with ordinary anti-theft solutions is challenging. Thanks to ACID’s deep and dark web monitoring services, your organization receives real-time alerts to criminal activities targeting your employees, assets, systems, and resources, as soon as they are detected. They thus enable you to take appropriate action to protect your organization from harm.
Anticipating Potential Attacks
Constant dark web monitoring for a business is crucial. You will only have a chance to preempt an attack or reduce its potential harm if you are aware that it is being planned, and the earlier the better. Once sensitive information becomes compromised or stolen, recovery is difficult, and the consequences may have far-reaching consequences. ACID’s solution is designed to enable tailoring its services according to the characteristics and news of each of its client organizations, to provide precise advance warning of arising risks.
Which services do we offer?
What can our trusted deep and dark web monitoring solutions do for you?
Credentials Monitoring
We offer credentials monitoring solutions that allow your organization to keep its employees’ usernames and passwords secure. If your team uses company email for personal communication, their passwords or personal details may be readily available on some servers. Cybercriminals may be using their digital credentials to manipulate sensitive data or steal valuable assets. Our patented AI-enabled technology detects compromised credentials through real-time tracking. It generates detailed alerts in real-time, often even before the data breaches or theft actually occur.
Executive/VIP Exposure
ACID conducts 24/7/365 targeted monitoring to detect attempts to access information on senior executives, the exposure of which can be disastrous to them personally, in addition to the organization’s operation. Account credentials of senior executives are particularly attractive to cyberattackers as they may allow them to obtain highly sensitive privileged information, which only the higher echelon in the organization’s hierarchy is permitted to access. ACID helps protect your business from the theft of such critical data.
IP and Brand Protection
Cyberattackers exploiting vulnerabilities in your system can steal your business’s intellectual property and also execute various attacks that would harm your brand – for example, inject malicious content, phishing, and marketplace scams. ACID’s advanced monitoring tools scan the deep web and dark web for any signs of such hostile intentions and immediately alert you to them, so that you may protect your IP, brand, profitability and reputation.
Third-Party Risk Detection
ACID is aware of the risks that can potentially arise from interconnectivity with third parties.
Many businesses outsource their services to contractors, data providers, suppliers, and vendors. This reliance on third parties potentially increases your vulnerability to attacks, as your systems are only as secure as these third-parties’ systems are – and their status in this regard is beyond your control. We monitor the deep and dark web keeping this risk in mind, and help you tailor our monitoring parameters taking these third parties into account, to provide comprehensive results and precise alerts.
What are the features one should consider when choosing a dark web monitoring service?
When choosing a dark web monitoring service, one would be well advised to consider the following features:
- Extent of coverage – the broader the range of dark web sources that are scanned, the better, as this increases the chances of detection. It’s important to verify that the monitored sources include marketplaces at which stolen information is offered for sale.
- The information that is sought – it is imperative to include types of information that the user considers sensitive, for example, personally identifiable information (PII), and where transactions take place – credit card information. Other types of information are also highly sensitive, for example, medical records, including anamnesis, test results and details of treatments, which are stored by healthcare facilities to enable providing proper and timely medical care to patients. Where research and development activities take place, as well as in the manufacturing sector – intellectual property and trade secrets are critical not only to competitiveness and success; if compromised, this might even place an organization’s continued operation at risk.
- Quick alerts – receiving alerts as soon as possible after information pointing to an attack is detected on the dark web increases the targeted organization’s chances of stopping the spread of the sensitive information and the escalation of the attack, and reduce the extent of damage caused.
- Precise alerts – alerts that provide the targeted organization with as many details as possible about the attack and its consequences allow implementing effective countermeasures.
What makes ACID’s dark web monitoring service so effective?
ACID’s 24/7/365 dark web monitoring is exceedingly effective, as it is designed to not only detect signs indicating that an attack has already taken place – for example, leaked data that is offered for sale; but to also detect attacks that are in the planning stage.
ACID deploys clusters of robots, implements sophisticated algorithms, injects avatars and uses crawlers imitating regular user activity to monitor the dark web (as well as multiple other sources and platforms). Client-specific keywords and the languages relevant to the client organization are also taken into consideration in order to optimize the monitoring results. Upon the detection of the first hint of a threat, the client receives an alert in real-time, together with all available information. This actionable alert enables the intended victim to take immediate, targeted action and thus mitigate the harmful consequences of the attack or, if given early enough, even foil it.
ACID’s advanced, highly effective dark web monitoring service helps keep your organization safe