The Top 11 Dark Web Monitoring Solutions

Flare is a comprehensive, easy-to-use, SaaS-based dark web monitoring and cyber threat intelligence solution.

How it works: Flare continuously monitors the dark web – including cybercriminal chat groups on Telegram, clear web sources of risk, and emerging sources of risk such as stealer logs – and automatically detects, prioritizes, and structures threats to your organization in an easy-to-understand format.

Who it’s for: This solution is ideal for organizations of all sizes looking for comprehensive dark web monitoring, with world class coverage within an easy to use package.

What we like: The platform is easy to deploy in 15-30 minutes and, once deployed, the console is modern and intuitive, with multiple customization options and reports.

• Flare archives billions of data points across hundreds of dark web sites, thousands of cybercrime telegram channels, and thousands of credential dumps. You can track the platform’s coverage for stealer logs, leaked credentials, and dark web discussions via an intuitive and easy to use admin console. Flare also provides high level trend tracking information, for more general knowledge of the threat landscape.
• Within the admin console, you can access comprehensive exposure metrics, tracking sensitive data exposure, exposed source code, and leaked credentials. You can also access a history of all previous events and view how their exposure score has improved over time.
• You can enable real-time alerts for risks, and the platform provides AI-based takedown capabilities to remove detected risks from online sources.
• You can access detailed information on each event including information on the risk identified, severity, the source, and remediation actions.

The bottom line: Flare is a comprehensive dark web monitoring solution that offers best-in-class coverage, whilst remaining easy to use, even for entry level analysts.

• Flare was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

ID Agent’s core product, Dark Web ID, is a dark web monitoring and analysis solution that scans the dark web for compromised user credentials, offering validated alerts and intelligence to mitigate potential security threats.

How it works: Dark Web ID continuously monitors dark web marketplaces, data dumps, and other sources for mentions of your organization’s credentials, domains, email addresses, and IP addresses. Whenever such a danger is detected, Dark Web ID provides prompt alerts.

Who it’s for: This is a strong solution for organizations of all sizes, looking to proactively identify and mitigate data leaks.

What we like: Its quick deployment and ease of ongoing management make Dark Web ID a user-friendly and efficient choice for secure data surveillance.

• You can leverage both human expertise and machine learning.
• Thanks to the platform’s out-of-the-box integration with popular PSA platforms, you can streamline the alerting and mitigation process, ensuring that your team doesn’t miss any security alerts.
• You can quickly and easily deploy Dark Web ID with SaaS and API deployment options. The platform begins monitoring immediately upon installation, eliminating the need for extra hardware or software.

The bottom line: Dark Web ID is a proactive security solution. It provides an early warning mechanism that alerts you before breaches occur, thereby giving you the opportunity to react swiftly and prevent damage.

• ID Agent, a Kaseya company, was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.

NordStellar’s Dark web monitoring searches the dark web (forums, search engines, marketplaces, etc.,) for keywords associated with your organization. It will identify links to your organization, allowing you the time to take effective remediation steps.

How it works: NordStellar uses real-time monitoring to continuously scan the key locations where data is traded. If any references to your organization or sector are identified, you will be alerted with details on the nature of the breach.

Who it’s for: NordStellar is a good fit for SMBs and midmarket organizations looking to extend their threat prevention coverage.

What we like: The solution’s automated scans provide employee, brand, and corporate security, ensuring that you can decrease risk, without an increased time investment.

•     The detailed insights provided by NordStellar let you to understand how your vulnerabilities have been exploited in the past, allowing you to implement more robust plans going forwards.
•     Custom word searching allows you more control over how the solution searches the dark web for data associated with your organization.
•     NordStellar’s platform offers account takeover and session hijacking prevention to extend threat exposure management capabilities.

The bottom line: NordStellar marks a new venture from Nord Security, the developer of NordVPN and NordLocker. This dark web monitoring tool builds upon this broad experience, resulting in an effective and accurate solution.

• Founded in 2012, Nord Layer is based in Vilnius, Lithuania.

ManageEngine has partnered with Constella Intelligence to offer an integrated dark web monitoring feature as part of its broader SIEM platform, Log360. Log360’s threat detection engine, Vigil IQ, uses anomaly detection, threat intelligence, and rule-based attack detection techniques to deliver threat detection and incident response for cloud, on-prem, and hybrid networks.

How it works: Log360 continuously scans the dark web for leaked credentials and other potential suspicious activity. If it detects a vulnerability, the VigilIQ engine investigates the potential risk. It then alerts admins and logs the incident in the Log360 incident management console, along with a threat analysis and contextual data.

Who it’s for: This is a strong option for organizations looking to deploy dark web monitoring as part of a broader SIEM platform for proactive threat detection and response.

What we like: Because it’s a unified SIEM tool, Log360 can correlate alerts and event details into your wider vulnerability management stack, helping to reduce alerting across multiple platforms.

• Within the incident management console, you can track key metrics (including MTTR and MTTD), manage correlation rules to detect common cyber-attacks, and access detailed event and incident reports.
• The solution scans for leaked credentials associated with your organization, employees, and any third-party partners you work with. This ensures you can identify any supply chain-related dark web risks.

The bottom line: While ManageEnigne Log360 is not a dedicated dark web monitoring solution, its capabilities as a unified SIEM solution make it highly useful within the dark web context.

• ManageEngine is the enterprise IT management software division of Zoho Corp. The division was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

CrowdStrike Falcon Intelligence Recon provides real-time dark web monitoring to give businesses visibility into digital threats, while safeguarding the company’s brand and reputation.

How it works: Falcon Intelligence Recon monitors dark web forums, marketplaces, and social media channels. It notifies admins of high-risk activity via real-time notifications and addresses exposed credentials automatically through CrowdStrike Falcon Identity Protection. The solution also identifies fraudulent domains or phishing emails and forwards them to relevant teams for action.

Who it’s for: This is a strong solution for any sized organization looking to safeguard their data, identities, and brand.

What we like: This solution stands out for the in-depth threat intelligence it delivers alongside its dark web monitoring capabilities.

• You can improve your team’s situational awareness of the threat landscape through the platform’s weekly cybercrime reports, which highlight trends across data leak sites, access broker activity, and vulnerability exploits.
• You can prioritize vulnerabilities based on the platform’s insights into real-life exploits, publicly known CVEs, related actors, and threat research reports.
• Falcon Intelligence Recon also offers a managed service, Falcon Intelligence Recon+, which allows you to leverage CrowdStrike’s expertise to protect against digital threats.

The bottom line: CrowdStrike Falcon Intelligence Recon tracks the activity of adversaries beyond the perimeter, exposing malicious activity so you can quickly remediate exposed data, fraudulent domains, and phishing threats.

• CrowdStrike was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

CYRISMA is a dark web monitoring tool that helps organizations track their sensitive information on the dark web, enabling them to predict and prevent potential cyber-attacks.

How it works: CYRISMA continuously scans the dark web to identify compromised accounts and monitors discussions around the brand on unindexed online activity and criminal forums. This provides early warnings about any data leaks, allowing a timely response to potential threats.

Who it’s for: We recommend CYRISMA as a strong standalone dark web monitoring solution for organizations looking for a quick and effective solution.

What we like: This platform offers speed, thanks to its continuous monitoring and instant reporting.

• CYRISMA reviews dark web data points every 24 hours to detect any potentially compromised information related to your organization or its customers. This enables you to take swift action to mitigate any risks.
• You can set up real-time email notifications that alert your team to dark web activity associated with your brand.
• A built-in translator allows your team to monitor discussions conducted in foreign languages.

The bottom line: CYRISMA enables organizations to discover, understand, mitigate, and manage potential vulnerabilities and cyber risks more effectively. The platform provides insights into how your company’s compromised information may be misused on the dark web and assists in fine-tuning incident response strategies accordingly.

• CYRISMA was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Rochester, New York.

Flashpoint Ignite is a comprehensive threat intelligence solution designed to help cybersecurity, fraud, and physical security teams to detect, prioritize, and remediate risks.

How it works: Flashpoint Ignite gathers threat information from social media platforms, chat services, foreign-language forums, illegal marketplaces, paste sites, and the deep and dark web. By combining analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, Flashpoint Ignite allows analysts to track and remediate threats effectively.

Who it’s for: This solution is well-suited for organizations that would benefit from the guidance of human analyst team.

What we like: This platform stands out for the depth of threat intelligence provided by Flashpoint’s analyst team.

• You can use the platform’s extensive data collections (containing over two petabytes of threat intelligence data) to identify, prioritize, and remediate threats more efficiently. This wealth of data includes information on ransomware group profiles, stolen accounts, credit cards, and credentials.
• Ignite is supported by Flashpoint’s expert team of over 100 analysts, who engage with threat actors in illicit communities to provide tailored and custom information based on your requests and offer threat response and readiness support.

The bottom line: Flashpoint Ignite delivers timely, actionable intelligence to enhance an organization’s ability to combat data theft, payment and card fraud, customer and vendor account takeovers, unknown vulnerabilities, and insider threats.

• Flashpoint was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in New York.

Fortra’s PhishLabs provides organizations with expert-curated intelligence and dark web monitoring to protect their digital and physical assets.

How it works: PhishLabs protects organizations against financial and reputational damage and data theft by proactively monitoring the dark web and identifying potential threats associated with your organization.

Who it’s for: This is a strong solution for organizations looking for human- and intelligence-lead dark web monitoring.

What we like: This solution combines automated detection with expert human analysis.

• PhishLabs monitors marketplaces and other dark web sites for references to stolen data and other criminal activity.
• Fortra’s analysts deliver high-value intelligence by linking key data points to threat actor personas, allowing for continued surveillance and activity monitoring. This helps you prevent the sale of Personally Identifiable Information (PII), exploitation of source code, and distribution of malware exploit kits.

The bottom line: PhishLabs is a comprehensive dark web monitoring tool that places a strong focus in threat intelligence. For more information about Fortra’s work in the DLP space, read our interview with their EVP of Strategy, John Grancarich.

• Fortra (formerly HelpSystems) was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Fortra acquired PhishLabs in 2021.

The Recorded Future Intelligence Platform helps organizations quickly identify, profile, and mitigate cyber risks, focusing on proprietary data, lost credentials, and mentions of company, brands, or infrastructure.

How it works: This threat intelligence solution utilizes machine learning and natural language processing to analyze data from the dark web. It collects content from numerous Tor sites, IRC channels, forums, paste sites, and underground marketplaces.

Who it’s for: We recommend the Recorded Future Intelligence Platform for any sized organization looking not only to identify instances of data theft and fraud online, but also wanting to proactively stay ahead of new and emerging threats.

What we like: This platform stands out for its ability to uncover new and emerging threats across the globe that may be relevant to your business.

• The platform automatically identifies relevant exploit chatter from across the dark web, helping you prioritize your remediation efforts based on adversary intent or capabilities.
• Recorded Future tracks criminal communities as they change their IP and domain infrastructure.
• The platform can automatically translate and analyze dark web sources in multiple languages, with deep analysis capabilities for 12 languages.

The bottom line: The Recorded Future Intelligence Platform can help you monitor direct threats to your company and infrastructure, as well as uncover the development, discussion, and trade of new and emerging exploits and malware tools that could harm your organization.

• Recorded Future was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts.

ReliaQuest GreyMatter Digital Risk Protection (DRP), formerly known as Digital Shadows SearchLight, offers dark web monitoring services to help organizations protect their valuable assets and mitigate potential threats. The DRP module is available as part of the wider GreyMatter security operations platform.

How it works: This service monitors open, deep, and dark web sources to find and track stolen intellectual property, and safeguard customers, brands, and executives from phishing and impersonation attacks. GreyMatter DRP also helps identify and expose insider threats or premeditated attacks by monitoring dark web mentions of an organization’s name and assets.

Who it’s for: ReliaQuest GreyMatter DRP is a strong solution for organizations of any size looking for dark web monitoring as part of a wider security operations platform that can improve visibility across the entire enterprise ecosystem.

What we like:

• ReliaQuest maintains a database containing over 15 billion breached credentials, helping you identify potential exploitations instantly.
• To protect your brand, the service detects and mitigates domain infringements such as typo and domain squats, spoofs of your company and executive social media profiles, and spoofed mobile applications.
• You can seamlessly integrate the GreyMatter DRP platform into your existing security operations stack to improve visibility across multiple tools and provide valuable context and insights.

The bottom line: ReliaQuest GreyMatter DRP is a comprehensive dark web monitoring solution. It enables you to not only monitor the dark web for insider threats and premeditated attacks, but also to identify leaked credentials and intellectual property.

• ReliaQuest was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Tampa, Florida. ReliaQuest acquired Digital Shadows in 2022.

ZeroFox Dark Web Monitoring provides comprehensive visibility into dark web communications, allowing organizations to detect data leaks and potential attacks.

How it works: This service continuously collects and analyzes raw intelligence from the dark web in real-time, using a combination of human and artificial intelligence. It monitors channels such as TOR, I2P, ZeroNet, Telegram, Discord, and IRC, searching for sensitive materials related to your organization, including stolen data, breached credentials, and intellectual property.

Who it’s for: We recommend ZeroFox Dark Web Monitoring for organizations that not only want to identify dark web threats, but would also benefit from human support and guidance when it comes to remediating those threats.

What we like: This solution stands out for the support it offers not just in identifying dark web threats, but also helping you remediate them.

• ZeroFox notifies your team of emerging threats and compromised assets. These alerts contain detailed information about compromised credentials, credit card details, PII, and the covert communication threads, enabling you to make timely, informed decisions.
• You can leverage the knowledge of ZeroFox’s operatives, who have extensive experience in covert tradecraft and maintain relationships with cybercriminals globally, providing unique access to intelligence.
• The service offers remediation recommendations along with a user-friendly interface that allows you to take necessary actions with just a single click.
• ZeroFox also provides immediate activation of remediation services or Requests for Information (RFI).

The bottom line: ZeroFox Dark Web Monitoring is a comprehensive dark web monitoring service. By combining artificial and human intelligence with a super-friendly interface, it enables you to quickly make informed decisions to remediate dark web threats.

• ZeroFox was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.