What Is Dark Web Monitoring?
When a website or online service is breached, the email addresses and passwords stolen from it are traded and published on dark web forums and in leaked databases. Dark web monitoring means checking those sources for your business’s email addresses, so you know when a login has been exposed.
How Your Staff’s Logins End Up There
Another Website Is Breached
Staff sign up to other websites with their work email. When one of those sites is breached, their details leak, even though your own systems were never touched.
Passwords Get Reused
If the same password was used on the breached site and on Microsoft 365, the attacker now has the key to your email as well.
Attackers Try Them Everywhere
Leaked logins are fed into automated tools that try them against email, remote access and cloud services, thousands at a time.
Why It Matters
A working email login is one of the most valuable things an attacker can get hold of.
Invoice Fraud
With access to a real mailbox, attackers watch for invoices and then send their own bank details from your genuine email address.
Phishing Your Clients
Emails sent from your real account are trusted, so attackers use them to phish your clients and suppliers.
Access to Your Data
One Microsoft 365 login can open email, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams, and everything in them.
How We Monitor
Every User We Support
Every user we support is checked against leaked-login databases, so an exposed password is found whichever breach it came from.
Your Whole Domain
We also monitor your email domains for known breaches. That catches addresses nobody is thinking about: former staff, old shared mailboxes and forgotten accounts.
When a Leak Turns Up
Anything urgent is raised straight away, and every finding goes in your monthly briefing.
We Tell You
Which account was exposed, and which breach it came from.
Reset the Password
And make sure it isn’t in use anywhere else.
Check MFA
Multi-factor authentication switched on, so a password alone isn’t enough to get in.
Check Sign-Ins
We look for signs the login has already been used by someone else.
Works Best Alongside
Monitoring tells you when a password has leaked. These stop a leak doing damage.
Password Management
A different password for every site means one breach can’t unlock anything else.
Password ManagementUser Awareness Training
Staff who understand password reuse and phishing are far less likely to hand over their login in the first place.
Awareness TrainingDark Web Monitoring: Common Questions
Add Dark Web Monitoring
Talk to us about adding dark web monitoring to your IT support.