What An MSP Can Do To Protect Their Clients From The Dark Web

By Kevin Lancaster, ID Agent

Not familiar with the term “Dark Web”? That’s okay, even some of the most sophisticated individuals in the tech space have no idea what the dark web is and how it’s accessed. As an MSP or MSSP, you are doing your part to secure and monitor your client’s network and provide a seamless user experience. However, through no fault of your own, your client’s and their employees are not making your job easier by creating credential-based blind spots that until now were hard to detect and mitigate.

Criminal organizations, hacktivists and social hackers obtain and sell hundreds of thousands of stolen credentials on the dark web daily. Increasingly the result of breached networks, compromised databases and human error creates vulnerabilities for the Small and Medium Business Clients you are tasked with protecting!

To understand what the dark web is, you must first understand that there is a large portion of the internet that is not indexed by common search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo. This is the “Deep Web.”  The US Government created this hard to access area of the Internet. Because the traffic flowing through the deep web was encrypted, it quickly became a preferred communication channel for privacy-conscious individuals, organizations and governments to share data, without detection.