About Darkscope

Protecting Business’s since 2016

A genesis of best practice

Whilst working on the committee to define ISO27001, Darkscope founder Joerg Buss noticed that existing cyber security products worked by casting a wide net to find threats, mostly looking at the dark web.

He decided that this did not solve the root problem for both companies and individuals. It also produced many false positives that took time to check and could mask actual threats.

So, in 2015 he formed Darkscope with a mission to develop and supply focused solutions that follow threats and references to the actual business or individual.

These threats could be from the dark web, social media in prohibited areas or any other location and with NO false positives.

Our vision

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.

Our technology

Integration options

Watchtower integrates with many popular SIEMs and orchestration platforms, including:

Microsoft Sentinel
Fortinet
VMware
Fujitsu
Crowdstrike
Trend Micro
CyberArk
Darktrace
Palo Alto Networks
Cisco

Darkscope’s solutions are all built on a platform we call ‘Watchtower’. Watchtower aggregates millions of threat indicators in real-time to identify new attacks, discover existing breaches, and enable security teams to quickly understand and contain threats. Specific functionality, solutions and services are configurable according to customer requirements.

FINDING TREATS THAT OTHERS CAN’T

If you needed just one simple reason to choose Darkscope for your predictive cyber intelligence needs: Watchtower finds threats that others can’t. Unlike other providers, Darkscope has developed human-like search technology that works in the deep web, on social media and in the darkweb. Our ‘virtual person’ instances – we call them Seekers – have names, profiles, and personalities so they can engage in chats, respond on forums and receive emails. To cover the vast number of darkweb pages that we scan each week, each Seeker is paired with a SearchDrone, effectively like a rider on a horse.

UNIQUE, AI-POWERED TECHNOLOGY

The key to Cyber Watchtower’s capabilities is the Darkscope Artificial Neural Network (DANN). This is a combination of highly accurate AI models and algorithms, which assigns scores to indicators of compromise so security teams can prioritize mitigation tasks.

HUMAN OVERSIGHT AND REVIEW

Another important differentiator is the human element. While Machine Learning (ML) and AI does the heavy lifting, without human oversight customers would likely receive a significant number of false positives. These suck up resources including money, time – and, of course, belief that the next threat will be the real deal.

Darkscope security experts continuously monitor all client attack surfaces, ensuring both that you are not continually bombarded with false positives, and that the information provided is accurate and relevant.

Fully comprehensive attack monitoring

Watchtower is all-encompassing, comprising:
user and account monitoring
web and domain monitoring
cyber threat intelligence
external network monitoring
risk assessment

Darkscope Awards

Since it was founded in 2016, Darkscope has won multiple awards, both for its technology and its customer service:

Expanding our services through recognition

Darkscope extended our offerings and announced the CyberIQ brand with CIQ360 and CyberIQ. These services allow enterprises to review partners and suppliers to determine the risk originating from the supply chain. It also offers Cyber Insurancers to understand better the state of cyber security of their customers and prospects. 2020 was also the year we were named TOP10 Cyber Security Startup in APAC and Hi-Tech Awards finalist.

2021 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.

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Testimonials

Industry leaders who depend on Darkscope for their cyber risk insights

We are just coming up for our anniversary using Darkscope, and reflecting on how it literally has enlightened some dark places beyond our normal security controls.

Neville R. (CTO) Gallagher Group Ltd

Marc Hasenbeck, one of the managing directors of Fruchthof Northeim, explains that DarkScope's Cyber Watchtower service was specifically chosen to ensure that the source of potential threats is identified before an attack can occur.

Mar H. (MD) Fruchthof Northeim

Appreciate the super-responsive support and service you provide. Integrating Darkscope was, from a risk point of view, very easy as it does not interface or connect into our environment. Darkscope's service is entirely based on data that is found in cyberspace.

Dianne B. (Security Manager) Fidelity Life Assurance

The report is written in such a way that it targets the key questions management and governance have, lists specific issues found, suggesting appropriate remediation. This is done in quite a good way so as not to overwhelm those unfamiliar with security concepts but provide enough information to understand the risks.

Mikhael S. (ICT Leader) West Coast Regional Council

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