Dolce Vita IT Solutions LLC provides small and mid-sized businesses with a proactive, professional, and cost-effective outsourced IT department. This is why business owners come to us for help, and their success is what we deliver.
Dark Web Monitoring
Your business data is one of your most critical assets. And the Dark Web makes up a substantial proportion of the Internet. As a repository for cybercriminal and cyberthreat groups, it acts as a storehouse of stolen and illicit information including stolen and compromised credentials:
Potentially your business credentials
Dark Web ID ensures a high level of surveillance and protection with 24/7 human and machine-powered monitoring of business credentials including domains, IP addresses, and email addresses. What’s your next move?
You’ve just discovered compromised employee credentials and other sensitive data exposed and available on the dark web. What do you do?
Be aware that once exposed on the dark web your information cannot be completely removed or hidden
minimize risks - replace all potentially exposed login passwords with new and unique credentials
minimize risk - change any credentials older than 3-6 months
If the source of the breach is not known, change the passwords for all accounts which had the same or similar credentials
Ensure that in cases where the same password is used across multiple services, change each to a unique password, especially for critical services
Use only strong complex credentials
Pay attention to increased phishing emails hitting any mailbox
Increase the aggressiveness in checking access logs to critical services such as accounting, bookkeeping, and stores of intellectual property
Disable/close accounts of all former users
What went wrong?
Proactively use dark web monitoring set to check for your organization’s domain and email addresses
Your organization should be using a secure, centralized password management system
Ensure that multifactor authentication is used with every possible service
Ensure that policies require that users periodically change their password, and force the user to use strong, complex credentials
Prevention is helped by providing basic cybersecurity user training
Perform periodic risk assessments
Verify that ALL business data is being backed up