You may have heard the term ‘Dark Web’ mentioned in the news or read about it in a news article.
As one of our valued clients we are reaching out to tell you what the Dark Web is, what it is used for and why you need to protect yourself and your business from it.
The dark web forms part of the internet. It’s a place on the internet that allows people to browse anonymously, it even requires specialist tools and software to access it. Because the Dark Web is anonymous it is used by criminals to buy and sell lots of different illicit things including, most importantly, information about you and your business.
The most common element of the Dark Web activity that is critical to you and your business is when websites or platforms get hacked and your usernames and passwords are breached. This information can be used by the criminals to further hack other sites where you use the same username and password to access. (Password security is another issue that needs discussing with your team.)
Our dark web scanning helps to protect against these types of hacks and identifies credentials linked to your personal email addresses or business domain early enough to alert you to the compromised credentials and allow you to change passwords on breached accounts. Proactive maintenance of your computer is one method to help stay ahead of this, as well as learning how to create good passwords, changing them often and how to identify scams.
Dark Web protection is a low cost, high impact Cyber Security element for you and your business. Can you afford not to be protected?
Let’s talk about how our Dark Web security solution will strengthen your current cyber security. Ask us for a free dark web scan.