ID Agent provides a comprehensive set of threat intelligence and identity monitoring solutions to private and public sector organizations and to millions of individuals impacted by cyber incidents.
From monitoring your organization’s domain for compromised credentials to deploying identity and credit management programs in order to protect your employees and the customers you serve – we have you covered.
ID Agent was developed to address critical issues impacting both public and private sector organizations. Our personal and organizational Dark Web monitoring tools scan hidden criminal chat rooms, private websites, peer-to-peer networks, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels, black markets sites and social media platforms, as well as more than 640,000 botnets to identify and report compromised information. To date, we have identified more than 520 million compromised records from 82.7% of domestic commercial and government organizations.
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. …
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A Managed Service Provider (MSP) has a lot to worry about within the information technology services they offer. Your clients probably store data that is critical to their continued success on your servers. If their network becomes breached, your network may become susceptible to risk and vice versa. Using cloud storage providers such as Dropbox, …
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When it comes to protecting your businesses infrastructure, it is safe to assume that you have some form of cyber protection activated. But email communications represent the biggest threat of all, because it takes advantage of the end user, in one form or the other. It generally only requires one misstep from a member of …
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In its recent 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report, Verizon Enterprise confirmed many industry trends that we see at ID Agent every day. The most glaring blind spot for organizations is how stolen credentials are the primary means by which hackers exploit their vital systems. Credentials are the holy grail for hackers. In a study of 905 phishing …
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OneLogin, a company that provides single sign-on capabilities to safely store passwords of over 23 million users including 2,000 businesses, has suffered a compromise that included the ability to decrypt customer data. In a recent blog, the company revealed that an attack occurred May 31st at 2 am and was identified by a staff member around …
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Hospital networks can unfortunately become a goldmine for attackers that use ransomware worms as their weapon. If deployed, lives may be endangered, hospitals usually must pay the ransom, or pay to get files retrieved and its reputation could be damaged. Because these attacks are increasing due to lucrative benefits, teaching and reminding hospital staff to use valuable cyber …
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If your customers are like most organizations, 75% of their employees recycle or use a variation of the same password across most of the systems and websites they access – both on and off their employer’s network. And this practice is becoming increasingly dangerous. Your company may have implemented an internal protocol to educate your …
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Recently, Digital Citizens Alliance published a report that focused on how exposed Universities and Colleges’ populations are on the dark web. Specifically, they looked at the levels of compromised credentials associated with .edu’s on the dark web. ID agent provided data to support the report. The Digital Citizens Alliance’s Deputy Executive Director Adam Benson said the Washington, …
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Stolen email credentials are an often exploited vulnerability for government and corporate networks. In fact, Verizon announced in a recent study that 91% of phishing attacks specifically targeted email credentials. What do Hackers Use Stolen Credentials For? There are a multitude of valuable uses for stolen credentials, especially when they come from government agencies and …
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On December 30th, 2015, the IRS officially announced that employers are not required to include the value of pre-breach identity protection services in employee gross income. This adds to a previous announcement where the IRS stated in August 2015, with announcement 2015-22, that post-breach identity protection benefits would have preferential tax treatment. The most recent announcement extends …
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