Between 90% and 99% is unindexed and invisible to the general public — that’s the deep web. Being able to automatically monitor the deep web is an important capability for your security team. Deep web threat intelligence helps analysts cut through the anonymity of the deep web and find leaked or stolen information before it can be exploited.
How Flare Helps Gather Deep Web Threat Intelligence
How does Flare monitor the deep web for threat intelligence?
Flare’s Threat Exposure Management (TEM) solution automates the process of scanning the deep web, continuously monitoring the clear & deep web, and sending your team alerts when it detects your organization’s name, employees’ names, domains, IP, or any other key information. This empowers your team to find leaked or stolen data and take action quickly.
What are the key benefits of Flare’s deep web threat intelligence solution?
- A proactive security stance: By actively scanning for potential attackers and stolen data, your team can catch a breach before it happens and take steps to protect your data, systems, and networks.
- Visibility into the deep and dark web: Flare’s threat intelligence monitoring solution scans the deep, dark, and clear web, as well as prominent threat actor communities, to find leaks and hacker chatter that might threaten your organization.
- Automated continuous monitoring: Automation is a key piece of a proactive security strategy. Flare’s platform gives your team 24/7 coverage of the deep web, so you will know as soon as your information appears where it should not be.
Why use Flare to monitor the deep web?
The deep web is vast, and it’s impossible for a human to effectively search it or scan for stolen assets. Flare provides organizations with insights and monitoring that can give you an edge when it comes to today’s evolving threat landscape.
Deep Web Threat Intelligence: An Overview
What is deep web threat intelligence?
Deep web threat intelligence is the process of gathering data from the deep web to identify and mitigate risk. By monitoring the deep web, security experts are better able to understand the threat actors who work there. This can include research into cybercriminals’ plans, tactics, and potential targets for their attacks. By detecting threats early, organizations, law enforcement, and security practitioners are able to take proactive defense measures to protect data and systems.
What is the deep web?
The deep web, also called the invisible web, is the part of the Internet that isn’t indexed by search engines. However, just because we can’t search it doesn’t mean we don’t see the deep web: the deep web is home to a wide range of legitimate content, including academic journals, government databases, gated content, resources hidden by paywalls and anonymous forums. However, the deep web is also home to illegal and illicit activities.
Are the deep web and the dark web the same thing?
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The terms deep web and dark web are often used interchangeably, but they aren’t quite the same. The dark web is a part of the deep web that can only be accessed through specialized browsers. We see the rest of the deep web on standard browsers all the time.
What tools help your team monitor the deep web?
There are several ways to gather information on the deep web:
- Specialized search engines and crawlers: Specialized search engines are designed to search for data that is not indexed by conventional search engines. They do this by querying databases, crawling web pages, and searching for unlinked pages..
- Dark web monitoring services: Dark web monitoring services are built to monitor the dark web for leaked credentials, protect against targeted attacks, and prevent unauthorized account access from cybercriminals.
- Open-source intelligence (OSINT): OSINT refers to the gathering and analysis of data from publicly available sources, such as social media, news outlets, and public records queries. While some OSINT tools may focus on clear web content, many can also conduct deep web intelligence gathering.
Why Do You Need Deep Web Threat Intelligence in Today’s Cybersecurity Landscape?
Why is deep web threat intelligence important?
The deep web is unindexed for a reason: its relative anonymity allows organizations to keep certain information safe, private, and confidential. For example, the deep web includes banking apps, email servers, healthcare databases, environments that host proprietary development activities, and other private information. Keeping that information private means monitoring your own deep web assets for leaks and accidental exposure, and also, monitoring the larger deep web for leaked or stolen information.
Is Telegram part of the deep web?
Telegram is not exactly the deep web, although it shares some of the same anonymity, and attracts the same crowd. Telegram is a social media messaging app that has become a digital hub for cybercriminals. Since cybercriminals share hacking methodologies, malware as a service, and sell stolen information on illicit Telegram channels, it’s critical that your team monitors Telegram as well as the deep web.
What is the impact of data theft?
The average cost of a data breach is $4.88 million. This includes the cost of finding and remediating the breach, interruption of operations, lost business, legal fees and other fines. However, $4.8 million is just the average; many industries experience higher costs. By automating deep web threat intelligence, your team can take a proactive approach to cybersecurity, seeking out threats and mitigating vulnerabilities.
Deep Web Threat Intelligence and Flare
Flare provides the leading Threat Exposure Management (TEM) solution for organizations. Our technology constantly scans the online world, including the clear & dark web, to discover unknown events, automatically prioritize risks, and deliver actionable intelligence you can use instantly to improve security. By gathering deep web threat intelligence automatically, Flare can help you strengthen your organization’s security posture.
Our solution integrates into your security program in 30 minutes to provide your team with actionable intelligence and automated remediation for high-risk exposure. See it yourself with our free trial.
