Dark Web Monitoring
What is Dark Web Monitoring?
The practice of scanning dark web forums, marketplaces, and data dumps for an organization's compromised credentials, data, or mentions to enable early response.
Terms that appear alongside dark web monitoring
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as dark web monitoring. The number is how many controls name both.
- compliance 2 shared controls
- cyber threat 2 shared controls
- threat intelligence 2 shared controls
- open source intelligence 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern dark web monitoring
What the standards actually require on dark web monitoring
Requirements naming dark web monitoring across 4 standards, quoted from the control text.
Monitor service providers consistent with the enterprise’s service provider management policy. Monitoring may include periodic reassessment of service provider compliance, monitoring service provider release notes, and dark web monitoring.
CIS-15.6 · Monitor Service Providers →FIRST CSIRT Services Framework v2.1 Service Area 4 - Situational Awareness. SCOPE: maintaining + sharing operational + tactical + strategic awareness of the cyber threat landscape relevant to the constituency.
FIRST-CSIRTF-SA4-SituationalAwareness · Service Area 4 - Situational Awareness and Threat Intelligence →Lloyds Cyber Insurance Requirements - Risk Selection and Cyber Hygiene Underwriting Criteria. Underwriters must conduct rigorous risk selection + due diligence assessing insured-cyber hygiene including: (a) Mandatory cyber hygiene requirements (insurance-grade...
LLOYDS-CI-Risk-Selection-Cyber-Hygiene-Underwriting-Criteria-Pre-Bind-Risk-Engineering-MFA-Backup-EDR · Lloyds Cyber Insurance Risk Selection + Hygiene + Pre-Bind Engineering →Implement Cyber Resilience per MAS TRM Chapter 11 including Cyber Threat Intelligence + Penetration Testing + Vulnerability Assessment + Cyber Incident Response and Notification.
MAS-TRM-Cyber-Resilience-Chapter-11-Threat-Intelligence-Penetration-Testing-Incident-Response-1-Hour-Notification · MAS TRM Cyber Resilience + Chapter 11 + Threat Intelligence + Penetration Testing + Incident Response + 1-Hour Notification →Questions people ask about dark web monitoring
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