New Intelligence Report Says The Dark Web Keeps Companies Up At Night But They’re Doing Little To Solve The Problem
A new report is shedding light on how intelligence officers are worried
sick about the great number of threats taking place on the dark web. And
the fact that companies are concerned but do nothing about it is
another huge problem altogether.
The news comes to us thanks to a recent report that was made public by Searchlight Cyber.
The
leading intelligence company of the dark web set out a new poll that
surveyed around 1000 officers that worked in huge enterprises. They
found 93% had gotten so sick regarding dark web dangers while 72% claim
that a crucial solution to solve the matter is gaining cybercriminal
intelligence so companies remain protected.
So what are companies
really doing? The answer is that they’re busy collecting so much
intelligence on such endeavors including tools, and networking. But
that’s it and nothing else is being done to solve the problem.
Was
this really worth the extra trouble? As per experts, 71% of
intelligence officers would adore seeing suppliers get targeted on the
likes of the dark web. In reality, 32% of people taking intelligence
data from the dark web use it to carry out and plan attacks on the
supply chain.
As revealed by Ben Jones who is the head of
Searchlight Cyber, firms are simply not doing enough and they have a
difficult journey ahead of them. What he sees at this moment in time is a
very distinct pattern that arises among gathering a lot of threat
intelligence and information taken from the dark web and then using that
to attain a good security posture.
By gathering more
information, such companies are going to be more familiar with how such
perpetrators increase the chances of identifying attacks.
When
you dig deep into such results, researchers find how firms in various
industries give out different responses to various threats arising from
this location. And the majority of them are related to the finance
sector where reports show 85% manage to extract data from this area.
After
that, the common target appears to be the health sector at 57%.
Meanwhile, the oil and gas industry may improve as only 66% of CISOs are
harvesting data from dark places on the web.
Right now, there
is great skepticism regarding how such attacks need to be stopped as it
appears to be below the usual industry standard.
