WHITE PAPER: How to prevent attacks and identify data leaks on the dark web?

The growth of cyberattacks is a phenomenon that affects all companies, regardless of their size or field of activity. In this context, awareness of the risks is real. This had led to the implementation of proactive and preventive security measures, including raising the awareness of all employees, training technical teams, carrying out penetration tests on IT systems, etc.

To prevent cyber attacks, it is necessary to control publicly available information about your company. This includes scanning the web for sensitive data, with the aim of reducing the amount of information exposed, or at least removing information that poses a security risk. And to take it a step further, it is possible to adopt a 'scouting' posture - or 'reconnaissance' - in order to identify the strategies and attack plans of hackers on their favourite playground: the dark web.

The objective of this white paper is to review the dark web ecosystem, describe the mechanisms and tactics used by attackers to compromise your critical assets, and then to outline how Vaadata can help you reduce your attack surface by identifying risks on the web while taking into account the specifics of the dark web.
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Understand the risks associated with the dark web by learning how it works, where cybercriminals operate, and the different threats organisations may be exposed to.
Identify information exposed about your organisation by understanding how reconnaissance can be used to map your attack surface and uncover data that attackers could exploit.
Detect data leaks and signs of compromise by searching the clear web and dark web for credentials, passwords, sensitive documents, backdoors, or information relating to past, ongoing or planned attacks.
Learn how to monitor your exposure effectively by exploring the methods, specialist tools and expertise needed to collect, filter and, most importantly, interpret available information in order to identify genuine exploitable risks.