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We continuously scan the dark web for your domains and credentials.
Cyber Security
Dark Web Monitoring
Know the moment your company credentials appear in a breach, so you can act first.
Overview
Stolen credentials for sale
Billions of credentials are exposed in breaches and traded on the dark web. If your staff reuse passwords, a breach elsewhere becomes your problem.
WhizzIT continuously monitors the dark web for your domains and credentials and alerts you fast, so you can reset, respond and stay ahead of attackers.
Back to Cyber SecurityWhat's included
- Continuous monitoring of your domains
- Alerts on exposed credentials
- Breach exposure reporting
- Guidance on response and resets
- Support for password and MFA hygiene
- Part of a layered security approach
What is actually out there
Most exposed passwords were never stolen from you
The credentials that put a business at risk usually leak somewhere else entirely. A member of staff signs up to a supplier portal, a forum or a retail site with their work email address and a password they also use at work. That third party is breached, and the pair ends up in a list traded between criminals. Nothing was compromised on your network, and nothing on your network can tell you it happened.
Older breach dumps are the least urgent, because the password has often been changed and the hash may be slow to crack. Combolists are aggregated email and password pairs assembled for credential stuffing, which is why password reuse is the whole problem. The one that deserves immediate attention is an infostealer log, taken from a machine infected with malware that harvested everything the browser had saved along with active session cookies. Those cookies can let someone resume a signed-in session without ever needing the password or the second factor.
An alert tells you a credential appeared in a dataset, not that anyone has used it. The triage questions are whether the password is still current, whether that account has multi-factor authentication, whether the same password protects anything else, and whether the source suggests a compromised device rather than a third-party leak. Answering those turns a frightening notification into a short, specific job. Treating every match as an emergency is how teams start ignoring the alerts.
We would rather be straight about this. Monitoring cannot remove your data from anywhere, and no supplier can, whatever they imply. What it buys you is time between the exposure and someone trying it, which is the window in which a reset costs you ten minutes instead of an incident. It works because it sits alongside the controls that actually block the attempt: multi-factor authentication, a password manager so reuse stops being tempting, and conditional access rules that make an unexpected sign-in harder to complete.
When something is found
The first hour matters more than the report
Plenty of services will send you a monthly PDF listing exposures. That is a record, not a response. What changes the outcome is what happens in the hour after a credential surfaces, and whether anyone is on the hook for doing it.
In practice that means resetting the affected password and any account sharing it, revoking active sessions and tokens rather than only changing the password, checking the mailbox for forwarding rules or filing rules that should not be there, and confirming multi-factor is enrolled and enforced on that account. Where the source looks like an infostealer log, the device itself is treated as compromised and taken out of use until it has been rebuilt, because rotating a password on an infected machine simply hands over the new one.
We handle those steps with you rather than emailing a list and leaving it. If you want the controls that reduce how often this happens at all, password management and awareness training do most of that work, and managed detection and response covers what happens if someone does get in.
Certified & accredited
Credentials you can check
Cyber Essentials certified
Independently assessed against the UK government-backed scheme, so our security fundamentals are verified rather than simply claimed. We help clients certify too.
How Cyber Essentials helps you
Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider
A direct partnership with Microsoft. We license, deploy and support Microsoft 365 and Azure for you, with escalation straight to Microsoft when it is needed.
Our Microsoft cloud servicesCyber Essentials is a UK government scheme run by the National Cyber Security Centre, delivered by IASME. You can verify what the certification covers at source.
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How we help
What we deliver
Alert
You're notified fast when something is exposed.
Respond
We help you reset, contain and reduce the risk of reuse.
Good to know
Frequently asked questions
Continuous scanning for your company credentials and data appearing in breaches and dark-web marketplaces, with fast alerts so you can respond.
We alert you and help you respond, resetting affected credentials, checking for misuse and tightening password and MFA hygiene.
No. It's one layer in a defence-in-depth approach alongside MFA, endpoint protection and monitoring.
Technology partners
Brands we partner with
We hold partner status with the vendors behind the tools we deploy, so your licensing, support and escalation come direct from the source rather than through a reseller chain.
Ready when you are
Interested in dark web monitoring?
Book a free consultation and we'll tailor it to your business.