Find out how to keep your company email passwords off the Dark Web.
If you are not monitoring the Dark Web every minute (or at least daily) to ensure your company and employees have not been hacked, chances are you already have been hit…and it may be too late. Your critical assets, trade secrets, customer data, and revenues are vulnerable.
Every day we hear of major breaches, hacks, and infiltrations at companies large and small. Many are scrambling to find tools to protect themselves from cyber-hacking, which are often complex and expensive. Worse yet, some companies are leaving themselves exposed and vulnerable by doing nothing and “hoping for the best.” There is a better solution. One that is effortless to implement (really), and extremely cost effective (protecting your entire company for almost nothing).
Your point of vulnerability:
One of the key points of entry for cyber-criminals is via hacked company email accounts. Hackers will then sell this stolen data (emails, passwords, etc) for pennies on the Dark Web. In 2017, a hacker named “Peace” posted 117 million hacked email accounts for sale on the dark web for anyone and everyone willing to pay $2,200.
Once an email account is compromised and sold, they are used as an initial point of entry by the cyber-criminals who bought them. Experienced hackers then further infiltrate your network to locate and steal your critical assets like trade secrets, platform access, customer data, credit card information, etc.
Even if your company requires employees to change their passwords every few weeks, it may be too late. Multiple cyber-criminals may have already gained access to them and your assets already stolen. Many companies never even know they have been robbed.
Companies can protect themselves by:
- Monitoring the Dark Web 24/7/365 for signs of their compromised credentials for sale. This requires accessing and scouring millions of Dark Web sources such as: botnets, criminal chat rooms, peer-to-peer networks, malicious websites and blogs, bulletin boards, illegal black market sites and other private and public forums.
- Alerting the company and owner of the hacked account of the breach in real-time.
- Remediation of the hack by the responsible party. For example, having the IT department or employee reset or change the compromised account password.
The challenge is most companies have no capability to do this.
The Optimal Solution:
Thankfully, CyVision can monitors the Dark Web 24/7/365 and can send real-time alerts & recurring reports for your entire company. Anytime any company account is compromised and shows up for sale on the Dark Web, you will be alerted. It takes minutes to set up, and is cost effective starting at $250 per month to protect your entire company. Here is a sample report:#D
Contact me via email or click the pic below for more information or to schedule a free initial Dark Web scan and consultation.
Thom Jordan
Head of Business Development
