ISO 27001 A.5.7DPDP Act 2023NIST CSF ID.RA-2

Professional Dark Web
Monitoring

24/7 intelligence-led monitoring of Tor sites, criminal marketplaces, and closed forums for your stolen credentials, leaked data, and brand impersonations — mapped to ISO 27001 A.5.7, DPDP Act 2023 Clause 8, and NIST CSF.

Monitoring Methodology

How We Monitor the Dark Web

01

Asset Registration

We index your crown-jewel assets: corporate domains, executive email formats, product brand names, source code identifiers, and customer data schemas — building a precise search fingerprint.

02

Continuous Dark Web Scanning

Automated crawlers and human-intelligence feeds scan Tor hidden services, paste sites, criminal marketplaces, and closed Telegram channels 24/7 for your registered assets.

03

Match, Triage & Verify

Every hit is triaged by analysts. False positives are discarded; confirmed exposures are enriched with threat-actor attribution, exposure age, and business-impact scoring before alerting.

04

Alert, Report & Remediate

Verified exposures trigger priority alerts with full context. We provide a remediation playbook — credential resets, takedown requests, law-enforcement referral, or legal counsel escalation.

What We Monitor

Intelligence Coverage Areas

Stolen Credentials

Employee email/password combos from breaches, infostealer logs, and credential-stuffing lists.

Domain & Brand Mentions

Phishing kit registrations, typosquat domains, brand impersonation listings, and fraud templates.

Source Code & IP Leaks

Proprietary code, API keys, and configuration files posted on paste sites or dark web repositories.

Financial Data

Corporate card numbers, banking credentials, and invoice-fraud targeting your organisation.

Customer PII

Exposed customer records — names, emails, phone numbers, Aadhaar data — traded on criminal markets.

Infrastructure Intel

Exposed internal IPs, VPN credentials, RDP endpoints, and cloud API secrets in hacker forums.

Compliance Mapping

Framework Control Coverage

Every monitored asset and verified alert is cross-referenced to the compliance controls your auditors and DPO will expect — evidence ready before they ask.

ISO 27001:2022

A.5.7
Threat Intelligence
Continuous dark web monitoring operationalises the threat-intelligence control with actionable, verified feeds.
A.5.24
Information Security Incident Mgmt
Verified exposure alerts feed directly into the incident management process with full context for classification.
A.8.12
Data Leakage Prevention
Monitoring for leaked source code, credentials, and PII satisfies the DLP detective-control requirement.

DPDP Act 2023

Clause 8(4)
Personal Data Breach Notification
Verified PII exposure on dark web triggers the breach-notification obligation to the Data Protection Board.
Clause 8(5)
Reasonable Security Safeguards
Proactive dark web monitoring demonstrates reasonable security safeguards under the Act's due-diligence standard.

NIST CSF 2.0

ID.RA-2
Threat & Vulnerability Feeds
Dark web intelligence feeds directly satisfy the external threat-intelligence requirement of the Identify function.
DE.AE-2
Event Analysis
Analyst triage and enrichment of dark web hits aligns to the anomaly-and-event analysis detect function.
RS.CO-2
Incident Reporting
Alert packages with actor attribution and business impact support the respond-communicate function.

What You Receive

Deliverables

Continuous monitoring produces real-time alerts and structured periodic intelligence reports — every artefact designed for your security team, DPO, and board.

Start Monitoring
  • Asset fingerprint registry and monitoring coverage report
  • Real-time verified exposure alerts with remediation playbook
  • Monthly dark web threat intelligence briefing
  • Credential exposure report with reset prioritisation
  • Brand impersonation and phishing domain takedown log
  • ISO 27001 A.5.7 / DPDP Act / NIST ID.RA control-mapping evidence
  • Executive summary suitable for board and DPO reporting
  • Incident notification draft (DPDP Act breach obligation ready)

FAQ

Common Questions

What is dark web monitoring and why do Indian businesses need it?

Dark web monitoring scans Tor sites, criminal marketplaces, and closed forums for your stolen credentials, leaked data, and brand impersonations. Indian businesses are high-value targets — DPDP Act 2023 imposes breach notification obligations, making early discovery critical.

How quickly will we be notified if our data appears on the dark web?

Verified exposures trigger alerts within 24 hours of analyst confirmation. Priority-1 exposures (active credential trading, live RDP credentials) trigger immediate notification regardless of time zone.

Can you remove our data from dark web sites?

Direct deletion from criminal sites is rarely possible. We pursue legitimate takedown routes — DMCA for source code, hosting-provider abuse reports, and registrar suspension for phishing domains. We also coordinate with law enforcement referral for serious cases.

Does dark web monitoring satisfy DPDP Act breach-notification requirements?

It provides the early-warning capability that triggers the obligation. When our monitoring detects a customer PII exposure, we supply the breach evidence package your DPO needs to assess notification obligations under Clause 8(4).

What is the difference between dark web monitoring and a one-time breach check?

A one-time check is a point-in-time snapshot — data exposed tomorrow is invisible to it. Continuous monitoring provides ongoing coverage as new credential dumps, paste sites, and marketplace listings emerge daily.

Know Before They Strike

Start continuous dark web monitoring and have ISO 27001 threat-intelligence evidence and DPDP Act breach-notification readiness from day one.

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