Darkscope is an award-winning personalised cyber intelligence service provider. We are a joint human and AI business dedicated to developing, training and using artificial intelligence to make our human expertise better, the experience better and more consistent for our clients, and of course, to provide better value solutions. With our own cutting-edge AI and Deep Artificial Neural Networks - DANN strategically placed throughout the dark web, Darkscope leads the world of cyber intelligence solutions.
Asking “why” is the start of the Darkscope story, then asking “why not” is the reason to carry on.
Why is the security world entirely focused on what they know and can control when so much risk is outside of their control.
Why do organisations not have intelligence gathering processes that help mitigate their risk as a priority in their strategies?
Why not train AI to complete repeatable information gathering processes?
Since 2018 Darkscope has focused on delivering superior cyber intelligence to our clients, stretching the bounds of AI and helping make the cyber world a safer place.
We want to make it easier for our clients to identify their risks from the cyber world. By understanding their risks, they can mitigate or nullify the risks to their business, customers and partners.
Risk management is a vital tool in Information security, but somehow, everyone shifted to Defence management when it comes to cyber security. Instead of assessing the particular risk of a business, the industry started with defence assessments as there was no way to determine the specific cyber risk of a company.
The idea of the CIRS score was born out of the realisation that assessing the defence without knowing where the threats are, is like protecting against a flood when you live in a desert - It doesn't work.
After 14 months of intensive research, Darkscope developed the CIRS score that allows us to determine the individual cyber risk of any business by comparing it with millions of other companies work wide, in real-time. Not only can we show the overall cyber risk, but we can also identify areas where an attack is most likely to come from. This allows customers to prioritise and optimise their defences which reduces the costs and time for the customer.
In 2019, Darkscope got recognised and won the iSANZ award in the category Startup of the Year. In the same year, we onboarded the Gallagher Group as our first customer. Gallagher has been with us since then and followed our development closely.
2020 was an exciting year for us. We had the honour to be Hi-Tech Award finalist and extended our customer base in Australia, New Zealand, Germany and UK. With strong partners in these regions and additional functionality, Darkscope has grown considerably and is now one of the leading Cyber Intelligence providers in the world. We now rate over 5 million businesses daily and analyse over 200 million dark web pages per week. Also, our Domainwatch service examines over 200 domains every second, or 720.000 per domains hour.
The in 2021 introduced Cyber Attack Vector analysis will become an even more critical tool for businesses to streamline the cyber defence strategy. This AI-driven function allows customers to identify not only the risk but also from what direction this risk originates from. Our investments and development in AI continue, and we're planning to release our Cyber Attack Prediction (CAP) model that allows us to predict attacks before they happen. For that, we use over 100 million data points in real-time.
In 2024, we proudly entered the EU market as the only cyber intelligence provider that empowers customers and partners to fully host our solution within their own environment. This unique capability ensures complete control over data, eliminating GDPR and confidentiality concerns while maintaining the full power of Darkscope’s intelligence platform. Our expansion into Europe marked a significant step in our global growth strategy, strengthening partnerships and opening new opportunities for innovation in regulated markets.
The future of cyber defence lies in prediction, prevention, and precision. Darkscope is now focused on refining our Cyber Attack Prediction (CAP) model and expanding our AI-driven intelligence network to cover even more threat vectors in real time. Our next milestones will deliver deeper integration with customer security systems, fully automated threat-to-action workflows, and predictive insights that transform how businesses respond to cyber risks. By staying ahead of threat actors, we aim to give every organisation the power to act before the attack begins.