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Dark Web Monitoring

Dark web monitoring is the practice of surveilling dark web forums, marketplaces, and hacker communities for intelligence relevant to an organization's security posture, such as leaked credentials, stolen data, ransomware group activity, and discussions of specific targets or vulnerabilities. In third-party cyber risk management, dark web monitoring provides early warning of threats that may not yet be visible through technical scanning. Black Kite's data collection includes dark web and deep web sources, and FocusTags® surface dark web intelligence relevant to specific vendors in a portfolio.