Executives Under Threat

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The threat to executive personnel across all industries has been increasing over the past few years, with a notable spike coinciding with the pandemic.

24% of physical security and IT leaders reported that their CEO or their family members had received threats and/or were harmed when working from their private residence or while traveling in 2021. Often sensitive information about executives can be accessed on the clear web, on dark web forums, on paste bins, or on dox sites before the individual or their organization is alerted to it. In some cases, they may never become aware of that data and it remains available online indefinitely for somebody to exploit.

However, dark web monitoring capabilities could allow organizations to extend their visibility beyond their network and into the conversations and discussions happening within the criminal underground – enabling security teams to proactively identify a risk to individuals before it can become a threat.

This report uses a real-life case of executive threat to demonstrate how continuous monitoring of activity on the clear, deep, and dark web can alert organizations to when executive credentials and information is exposed, allowing action to be taken at the earliest opportunity to mitigate the threat or remove the data from the public domain.

Download the report to learn about:

  • How and why executives are targeted by threat actors online.
  • How dark web monitoring helps you spot cybercriminals targeting executives on forums, marketplaces, and leak sites.
  • A real-life case study of how Searchlight Cyber helped spot an executive being targeted on the dark web.