Dark Web Monitoring is the process of scanning the dark web for any stolen or compromised personal or business information. The dark web is a part of the internet that is not accessible through regular search engines and requires specific software to access it. It's often used by cybercriminals to buy, sell and trade illegal goods, including stolen data such as login credentials, credit card numbers, and other sensitive information.
Pentest People have released an innovative Dark Web Monitoring Service as a way to offer customers peace of mind that any mention of their brand, domain name, or specific data assets have not been compromised in a data breach and are not available on the Dark Web.
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The Dark Web Monitoring Service leverages proprietary scanning tools that have been custom written by the experienced team of security researchers at Pentest People. These tools harness various manual search mechanisms and APIs that have been created from doing numerous Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) assignments. The service can be delivered purely as an alerting engine, alerting you when references to your data assets or found, or more as a managed service where an experienced member of the team manually verifies every finding and produces a risk report with a full remediating action plan.
Our experts will listen to you and your needs to develop a tailored testing strategy. From here our consultants will use a wide variety of penetration testing tools and resources to gather information on your organisation.
Now the test is complete our consultants will fill out a detailed report of their findings, broken down by category and type, adding any remediation advice to the exploits and vulnerabilities they discovered. This data will be accessible via SecurePortal and follow up calls will be made to walkthrough the test and the steps required to remove the risks found.
SecurePortal provides clients with a new way to monitor and analyse the data you receive in your penetration tests. Rather than a lengthy physical report you gain a range of simple features that highlight your test findings and vulnerabilities.
Easily access remediation advice from our team of consultants on discovered vulnerabilities and assign them to your team for fast and efficient resolution. Receive overview and trend data of all of the current security issues you face in your organisatio and so much more./
Pro actively monitor the regular and Dark Web for the identification of your brand or data assets that may form a data breach.
Reduce the risk of a data breach damaging your organisation both financially through fines and to your reputation through the negative press associated with a breach
Leverage proprietary scanning tools otherwise unavailable for general searching on the Dark Web to uncover any potential data breach issues
Identify any potential data breach issues so you can take immediate action to reduce the risk posed by them to your security posture
Feel safe in the knowledge that the Dark Web is being proactively scanned for any mentions of your brand, domain, or data asset
Most Data Breaches are performed for financial gain. The cybercriminals exploit a vulnerability that results in a data breach and then extract the data. This data then has to be sold and the Dark Web, with its various underground forums and user groups is the place where the majority of this data is advertised.
It is quite common that the first a company knows about a data breach is when its data is identified for sale via the Dark Web. The attacker may have infiltrated the network and extracted the data without the company knowing and it is only when this data is listed for sale that the breach is identified, posthumously.
It is therefore imperative that you proactively scan the regular and Dark Web to add this scanning into your defence in depth strategy for risk management.
Pentest People’s Dark Web Monitoring Service was designed to identify when a customers data is breached and posted to locations on the regular or dark web.
Unless you are performing this level of pro-active monitoring you are unaware of what data assets have been compromised and are publicly available on various dark web data sources.
By using the service you can identify if any issues arise and then take action to remediate against the issues identified.
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Experienced Consultant Team
Penetration testing is a key component of any effective cybersecurity strategy, and it requires well-trained professionals to execute. Our consultant team needs are highly trained in order to test your business for vulnerabilities and identify potential threats before they cause harm. Our team have a deep understanding of the systems and protocols involved in protecting against hackers, malware, and data breaches.
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The initial engagement produces a full Dark Web Monitoring report where the customer can identify any false positives before the service is tuned to the individual needs of the customer. Once this initial baselining is provided, the service then constantly looks for any new data identified from its numerous sources on the dark web and alerts are sent to the customer if anything of interest is identified.