From Defense to Offense: Leveraging Threat Intelligence & Dark Web Monitoring for Enhanced Security

As cyber attacks remain a growing concern for organizations of all sizes, leveraging threat intelligence and Dark Web Monitoring (DWM) is critical to anticipate, withstand, and recover from cyber threats. An effective defense posture requires processes, technology, and human expertise to swiftly contain and respond to threats.

However, many in-house security teams lack the capacity or expertise required to engage in proactive threat hunting and Dark Web (DW) analysis, independent threat research, and create or implement novel threat detection protocols.

Drawing on highlights and key takeaways from eSentire’s latest ransomware research report, Spence Hutchinson, Staff Threat Intelligence Researcher at eSentire will discuss:

• The top trends eSentire’s Threat Response Unit (TRU) has observed about Ransomware-as-a-Service and the DW providers that enable attacks including initial access brokers, credential markets and information stealing malware.
• Why leveraging proactive threat intelligence and research is critical to stay ahead of the evolving threat landscape, inform your cybersecurity strategies, and reduce cyber risk.
• Why real-time DWM and correlation are important for threat context to inform decisions based on data residing in DW networks.
• How to correlate your business’s internal security context with deep and dark web threat intelligence to predict threat actor moves and extend visibility into early Indicators of Compromise (IOC) with the power of eSentire’s DWM service with MDR.