Why minutes matter
Today, the average attacker spends 207 days undetected inside a network (IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2024). Darkscope Watchtower reduces mean time to detect (MTTD) to under 4 hours — through continuous dark web monitoring that catches attacks before they escalate. During an active ransomware attack, the difference between 4 hours and 207 days is the difference between a contained incident and catastrophic data loss.
CIRT vs. classic SOC
A classic Security Operations Center (SOC) monitors and escalates. A Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT) acts: it takes active control during ongoing attacks, isolates compromised systems in real time, tracks attackers through the infrastructure, coordinates recovery and conducts forensic analysis. Darkscope Watchtower combines both: continuous SOC monitoring with CIRT capacity on escalation.
What Darkscope does during an incident
Detection: a dark web signal, compromised credential or attack surface anomaly triggers an alert. Confirmation: automatic validation of whether it's a real incident or a false positive. Containment: recommendation of immediate actions — password reset, access restriction, network segmentation. Escalation: on a confirmed attack, Watchtower activates CIRT capacity — within defined SLA times. Forensics: full attack-path analysis, scope of damage and root-cause analysis. Recovery: coordinated restart and hardening measures.
NIS2-compliant reporting obligations
NIS2 requires significant security incidents to be reported to the relevant authority within 24 hours (initial report) and 72 hours (detailed report). Darkscope automatically documents every incident response step in an audit-ready format and helps produce NIS2-compliant incident reports for authority notification.