Comprehensive enhancements of its award winning Searchlight
service, highlights the breadth and depth of coverage organizations must consider
in their digital risk management strategy across the open, deep and dark web
Dubai, UAE, July 9, 2017 – Digital Shadows, the industry leader in digital
risk management, today announced comprehensive enhancements of its
award-winning SearchLight solution’s dark web coverage capabilities with
a focus on scalable data analytics plus human led data collection and
contextual interaction to best protect an organization’s business, brand, and
reputation.
Starting today, with continuous coverage updates
added daily, Digital Shadows SearchLight™ has significantly expanded its automated
dark web collection capabilities, complemented by human data scientist
support to monitor, manage, and protect organizations against threats
associated with forums and marketplaces across the open, deep, and dark web.
Organizations can now easily see many dark web incidents, with context, as they
happen, wherever they happen. With these enhancements, customers will be
quickly notified that they are at risk and intel will be shared with an
up-to-date list of posts in the offending threads with key contextual
information on each forum user. Within marketplaces, risky product listings
will be flagged and key information will be displayed about the sellers’
reputation.
When it comes to closed sources on the open, deep
and dark web, automated collection alone is insufficient. Digital Shadows
recognizes it is critical to complement automation with a team of data
scientists and intelligence experts who gain access to closed sources, and
qualify the data collected to enhance analytic capabilities. This gives
customers the full breadth and context needed to address the digital risks that
are most relevant and impactful to their business. Automation in digital risk
management alone is not enough, as it cannot collect everything, and can lead
to an unmanageable level of false positives.
“The threat intelligence component of digital risk
management is all about giving organizations the insight to monitor, manage and
protect against threats no matter where they are coming from. Vendors that only
focus on the dark web don’t provide a comprehensive understanding of risk and
open their customers up to blindspots,” said Rick Holland, VP Strategy at
Digital Shadows. “Defense in Depth’, the popular security mantra, is
increasingly giving way to Expense in Depth as CISOs struggle to manage the
disparate data coming from an overwhelming number of point solutions. Security
professionals need comprehensive security solutions that consolidate and provide
context across their digital risks without adding additional complexity and
costs” Holland said.
Digital Shadows was recently recognized as a leader
in the The Forrester Wave™: Digital Risk Monitoring, Q3 2016 . In April, a
report by Forrester’s Senior Analyst Josh Zelonis entitled Achieve Early
Success In Threat Intelligence With The Right Collection Strategy stated that
“the value of threat intelligence only becomes apparent when you’re developing
a collection strategy based on strategic intelligence.” A collection strategy
that is only focused on dark web sources falls short and doesn’t provide the
complete picture including the strategic intelligence that organizations need.
For more details on
Digital Shadows SearchLight™ extended coverage of the dark web, visit https://www.digitalshadows.com/blog-and-research/threats-from-the-dark-web