Security News > 2020 > May > Why You May Not Need to Monitor the Dark Web

Many organizations are steadfast in their belief that dark web monitoring is a critical part of their security operations and the security industry is happy to fuel that belief.

While in some cases and industries it is indeed important to monitor the dark web, where the intelligence can help shape threat mitigation strategies, what most organizations do not realize is that it is often not the case.

While there's a popular belief that the dark web exists solely on the TOR network, many dark web sites are hosted on regular servers, available for anyone to access with the right URL, just like any other site.

It's not just about finding the dark web conversations where your organization is mentioned, but learning how fraudsters work in general so the fraud team is able to build effective fraud mitigation strategies.

Most of the on-going findings from the dark web for such organizations are "Employee credentials" - compromised credentials published in data breaches, associated with one of the organization's employees.

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