Siren Announces New Data Integration Partnership with DarkOwl

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Access DarkOwl’s Darknet Data Directly via the Siren Platform

February 09, 2023

Galway, Ireland – February 9, 2023 – Siren, an industry leader in investigative analytics, on a mission to keep people, assets and networks safe, today announced its strategic partnership with DarkOwl, a Denver based threat intelligence company specializing in dark web data.

By fusing together data from open source, vendor and classified sources, Siren enables investigators and data scientists to analyze risks, including threats to national security, public safety, fraud, and compliance, as well as threats to large enterprise corporations. Using the Siren Graph Browser, researchers can string together findings from previously disparate data sources to conduct robust OSINT investigations. 

While much of the power behind Siren’s data products stem from an ability to visualize and integrate data, Siren also curates a strategic selection of Technology Partners that end-users can leverage within their Siren dashboard. Siren has selected DarkOwl as one of these partners as a response to customer needs for cutting-edge data sources, including the darknet and deep web. 

DarkOwl is known in the industry for its extensive coverage of near real-time content from the darknet and related sources. This includes Tor, I2P, chat platforms, ransomware blogs, gaming message archives, paste-sites, and darknet marketplaces. Their data offers insight into these high-risk areas of digital activity, including coverage of emerging darknets and forums requiring authenticated access. 

“By choosing to integrate DarkOwl’s data into their platform, Siren is making a statement that they understand how crucial the darknet is to modern OSINT investigations,” commented DarkOwl CEO Mark Turnage. “Now, investigators can take information from our data set, such as a bitcoin address or a user alias, and pivot using Siren Graph to turn that data into actionable intelligence.”

 “This partnership will offer Siren customers curated access to the dark web,” said John Randles, CEO of Siren. “Now, threat intelligence analysts will have the means to connect DarkOwl data to other forensic, OSINT, company or internal sources of data, to power a variety of Law Enforcement, National Security and Corporate Fraud use cases.”

About Siren
Siren is a complete investigation solution, safeguarding people, assets and networks. Siren fuses data from open source, vendor and classified sources allowing analysts and investigators to analyze risks, threats and crimes for the National Security, Public Safety, Fraud and Compliance, and Cyber Threat communities. Siren’s patented technology is uniquely search based providing the user with easy to use search, analytics, visualization and reporting capabilities for investigations on all data types at all scales of data volume. In 2022, Siren was included in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50. Siren is a Gartner Cool Vendor in an Analytics and Data Science Report in 2020. For more information, visit www.siren.io.

About DarkOwl

DarkOwl uses machine learning and human analysts to collect automatically, continuously, and anonymously collect darkness content. Our products leverage AI to index and rank darknet and deep web data to enhance simplicity in searching. DarkOwl is unique not only in the depth and breadth of its darknet data, but also in its advanced investigation tools and passionate customer service. Our data is ethically and safely collected from the darknet. This allows users secure and anonymous access to information and threats relevant to their mission. For more information, visit www.darkowl.com.

Aditinet Consulting SpA Partners with Dark Web Data Leader DarkOwl to Bolster Cybersecurity Offerings

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This dark web data provider partnership will enhance Aditinet customers’ insight into to Supply Chain and Third-Party risk.

December 6, 2022

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Denver-based dark web data provider, DarkOwl, and Italy-based cyber security services company, Aditinet Consulting SpA, are pleased to announce their formal strategic partnership. As part of their curated Cyber Security Posture Solutions, this agreement enables Aditinet’s clients to have access to DarkOwl’s near real-time collection of dark web data and make more-informed threat intelligence decisions. 

Aditinet Consulting SpA supports private and public organizations to achieve their business goals through a variety of channels. These include cybersecurity resilience, risk-based consulting, identification and delivery of optimal solutions and fully managed security services, and testing of new solutions and integrations through laboratory and market audits. Aditinet plays an important role in the ongoing scouting of new and emerging cyber security technologies and implementation of in-house best practices at customer sites.

“We are extremely proud to include DarkOwl as one of Aditinet’s main technology data providers and partners,” says Marco Gornati, Sales Director of Aditinet. “Thanks to the important amount of information present in the dark web and analyzed by the DarkOwl platform, we are now able to significantly increase the quality of Supply-Chain Security Posture services that we offer to our customers.” 

Aditinet Consulting’s SpA’s decision to invest in access to DarkOwl’s dark web data – which is known for its exclusive access to authenticated marketplaces and forums – is a response to an evolving cyber threat landscape. Cybersecurity incidents such as malware, ransomware, or insider threats can have massive economical and reputational damages. These incidents, which can often be the result of human error or exposure (such as credentials), impact not just the targeted company, but the entire ecosystem of all involved partners and suppliers. 

“To maintain a full picture of their company’s cyber threat landscape, IT security teams need to have awareness of the risks facing not only themselves, but also their third-party vendors and other members of their organization’s supply chain,” said DarkOwl CEO Mark Turnage. “DarkOwl is proud to work with security services providers who recognize this and choose to add superior darknet offerings to their clientele.”

About Aditinet Consulting SpA 

Aditinet Consulting SpA is an Italian company established in 2004, two major hubs in Milan & Rome and a Service center in Kosovo. Provider for the best blend of best-of-breed Solutions and Services, both pre & post sales, across all the systems lifecycle. Nationwide footprint among the major organizations in CyberSecurity, in mission critical enterprise Network and Data Center infrastructures, supporting new strategic Transformation initiatives.

Major Key Services are on: Technology Consultancy, Design of Systems architecture, Delivery in critical environments, Professional Services for migrations, Assessment (Network-Security), Troubleshooting. 24/7 Assistance Service and NOC/SOC Service.  For more information, visit us at Azienda | Aditinet: networking, security, mobility e cloud

About DarkOwl 

DarkOwl enables organizations to fully understand their security posture, detect potential breaches and violations of the law and mitigate them quickly. DarkOwl turns the dark web data into a tool for our customers, enabling them to quantify risk at scale in order to make decisions that increase business success. By delivering the most prolific, relevant and timely darknet data available, our products ensure that our customers can find the exact data they need. DarkOwl’s robust ecosystem of products turns the dark web into a powerful tool to identify risk at scale and drive better decision making.  We offer a variety of options to access our data, please visit us at  www.darkowl.com

MST Signs with DarkOwl to Deliver Critical Darknet Data to Clients

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November 13, 2022

DarkOwl is proud to announce their new partnership with MST Egypt, a leading provider of comprehensive and innovative integrated IT solutions starting from assessing the client needs to full solution implementation and maintenance.

Egypt-based IT solutions company MST and U.S.-based data company DarkOwl are proud to publicly announce their new business partnership. The agreement enables MST to include DarkOwl’s data as part of its security offerings, and comes as the result of a need from their clients to have more insight into the darknet.

DarkOwl is known in the industry for having unmatched access to forums, pastesites, marketplaces, and chatrooms on underground networks such as Tor, I2P, ZeroNet, and Telegram, as well as deep web and high-risk surface web sites. The darknet remains a hub for criminal activity for things such as ransomware, a problem faced by over two-thirds of organizations.

“As cybersecurity incidents become more sophisticated, more and more critical data is being shared on the darknet. Without tools like DarkOwl’s, it is incredibly challenging to maintain insight into everything the threat actors have insight into, and stay ahead of potential threats,” said DarkOwl’s CEO Mark Turnage. “We look forward to continuing to grow our darknet and deep web coverage to ensure MST customers have access to the most up-to-date and relevant darknet insights.”

The CEO of MST, Mr. Mohsen Sobh, expressed that DarkOwl was already bringing immediate value to their client base. Per his statement, “thanks to DarkOwl’s solutions, our customers have much more visibility of what is happening to their data assets in the darknet market, which proactively prevented them from deep malicious activity that may impact their reputation.”

“We are enthusiastic to move our partnership with DarkOwl to add extra value to our customer visibility and security intelligence solutions that will enrich their security efficiency,” Sobh added.

The decision by MST to enhance their IT solutions with top-tier darknet is consistent with their dedication to expanding their scope of coverage to enable their customers stay ahead of threats and potentially attacks.

About MST

MST was established in 2001 with the purpose of providing different organizations with high quality IT solutions. Systematically, we have successfully expanded our scope of services to be a leading provider of comprehensive and innovative integrated IT solutions starting from assessing the client needs to full solution implementation and maintenance. MST has extended its geographic coverage to include regional and international markets such as UAE and USA.

About DarkOwl

DarkOwl uses machine learning to automatically, continuously, and anonymously collect, index and rank darknet, deep web, and high-risk surface net data that allows for simplicity in searching. Our platform collects and stores data in near real-time, allowing darknet sites that frequently change location and availability, be queried in a safe and secure manner without having to access the darknet itself. DarkOwl offers a variety of options to access their data.

Pegasus Intelligence Partners with Darknet Data Provider DarkOwl to Enhance Cyber Intelligence Solutions for Government and Military Clients

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August 15, 2022

DarkOwl is proud to announce their new partnership with Pegasus Intelligence, a cutting-edge security solutions company delivering signals intelligence and cyber intelligence solutions to government and military clients in challenging environments.

With a focus on serving the defense and space manufacturing industries, Pegasus Intelligence FZCO is a broker of technology products and services that were developed with their most critical end-users in mind. Their Product Management orientation is the vehicle that bridges customer requirements to product manufacturers, ensuring well-articulated system lifecycle and sustainment plans. The Pegasus Intelligence team can address highly nuanced concerns exposed through system tests to macro issues of program management and force modernization.

Pegasus Intelligence believes the future of warfare is likely to focus less on firepower and more on the power of information and the way it connects a military’s forces through the concepts of command, control, communications, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C5ISR). More than ever, the advantage will lie with whichever side can collect the most vital information, accurately and quickly analyze it, and then rapidly and securely disseminate the information and associated instructions to forces.

DarkOwl CEO, Mark Turnage, shares the same sentiment that there has been an unprecedented amount of data leaked into the darknet as a result of the ongoing cyberwar; “Since February of this year, the net size of our database has increased by 20% in six months because so much data has been spilled out into the darknet as a result of the current cyberwar.  The darknet is a chaotic and often unruly environment and it just became even more chaotic and risky. We are excited to initiate our partnership with Pegasus Intelligence and add our database to their cyber intelligence for government and military clients.”

Andrew Grunstein, Pegasus Intelligence CEO states: “We are very pleased to be growing our mutual cooperation with the outstanding DarkOwl team delivering unparalleled capabilities to clients across the Gulf.”

To learn more about DarkOwl, please visit www.darkowl.com. To learn more about Pegasus Intelligence, please visit pegasusintelligence.com.

About Pegaus Intelligence

Founded in 2008 with is headquarters in Abu Dhabi, Pegasus Intelligence specializes on delivering cutting-edge security solutions, delivering signals intelligence and cyber intelligence solutions to government and military clients in challenging environments. Our team of Intelligence professionals have the experience to deliver the right capability to achieve your objectives.

About DarkOwl

DarkOwl uses machine learning to automatically, continuously, and anonymously collect, index and rank darknet, deep web, and high-risk surface net data that allows for simplicity in searching. Our platform collects and stores data in near real-time, allowing darknet sites that frequently change location and availability, be queried in a safe and secure manner without having to access the darknet itself. DarkOwl offers a variety of options to access their data.

Symbol Security Partners with Data Provider DarkOwl to Broaden Its Initiative to Provide Cybersecurity Awareness for Customers

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July 11, 2022

DarkOwl and Symbol Security today announced their partnership, which enables Symbol Security access to DarkOwl’s extensive darknet database. This collaboration will support Symbol Security’s new Cyber Threat Surveillance feature, which will empower thousands of customers to gain access to critical visibility of surface web, deep web, and dark web activity involving their most critical assets.
 
The Cyber Threat Surveillance tool comes as a result of the ever-escalating global cybercrime landscape. By incorporating data from DarkOwl, Symbol Security is able to offer education programs and resources, alongside proactive awareness and cyber threat visibility – components that are key to reducing cybercrime and overall cyber risk.
 
“The launch of our Cyber Threat Surveillance service provides previously unattainable darknet visibility for customers with modest budgets” said Symbol Security President and Co-Founder Craig Sandman, “Now, small to mid sized businesses, and the thousands of MSPs, vCISO’s and Security Consultants that serve this space can gain much needed deep and dark web visibility at a price point that make sense.”
 
While services like Cyber Threat Surveillance exist today, most are built for a more sophisticated global enterprise or Fortune 1000 business. Symbol’s Cyber Threat Surveillance tool, which provides surface, deep, and dark web visibility, is instead aimed towards SMB and mid-market clients.
 
DarkOwl CEO, Mark Turnage commented, “Symbol Security’s approach to reducing human risk impressively wholistic. Adding DarkOwl’s data to their customer offerings will help to secure cybersecurity visibility services that have been out of reach for so many small businesses. We applaud their mission and recognize their progressive technical expertise, and look forward to a very successful partnership”
 
About Symbol Security:
Symbol Security’s SaaS platform helps customers reduce their cyber risk, and adhere to industry compliance requirements. Through authentic simulated phishing exercises, interactive training content, and awareness of risk data across domain registries, and the dark web, Symbol helps companies identify and act on potential points of cyber risk. Symbol can be operated by company administrators with ease or leveraged by Managed Security Service Providers as part of their security offerings.
 
About DarkOwl
DarkOwl uses machine learning to automatically, continuously, and anonymously collect, index and rank darknet, deep web, and high-risk surface net data that allows for simplicity in searching. Our platform collects and stores data in near realtime, allowing darknet sites that frequently change location and availability, be queried in a safe and secure manner without having to access the darknet itself. DarkOwl offers a variety of options to access their data. 

DarkOwl Announces Release of Ransomware API

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The new endpoint is designed to offer customers on-demand insight into current and historical content from ransomware websites hosted on the darknet.

DENVER, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — DarkOwl today announced the release of Ransomware API, the latest in their suite of darknet products. By enabling users to monitor darknet ransomware sites for their strategic assets – including first and third party vendors – organizations have the most accurate information available as to whether an entity has been extorted or compromised in a ransomware attack.

Ransomware API accesses the same database of darknet content as DarkOwl’s other data products, but targets results to content that was posted on ransomware group websites. These sites include those where actors post about their victims, and frequently leak compromised data that resulted from their attacks. Using this data, a company could expose potential risk for their own organization, assess supply chain vendor risk, or calculate risk to support cybersecurity insurance underwriting processes.

“As ransomware actors become ever more prevalent and advanced in the darknet, companies need tools that allow them to monitor and stay ahead of any cyberattacks. We hope that our deep coverage of this space can help illuminate a criminal economy that is constantly shifting and evolving,” said Mark Turnage, President and CEO of DarkOwl.

DarkOwl’s newest product was developed as a direct result of market demand, and is the first in the industry to offer streamlined, targeted insight into ransomware-hosted content on the darknet. As stated by DarkOwl’s Director of Product Technology, Sarah Prime, “We’re excited to release this new endpoint as a response to what we were hearing from our customers. Our insight into this area of darknet is unique, particularly our historical archive. Through this API product, organization mentions on these sites can now serve as a critical risk indicator.”

For more information, please visit www.darkowl.com/products/ransomware-api

Cypherleak Adds Access to the World’s Largest Database of Darknet Content with DarkOwl Partnership 

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DarkOwl and Cypherleak, a cybersecurity company, are pleased to announce a partnership that will provide Cypherleak’s clients access to the industry’s leading provider of darknet data. 

Cypherleak allows companies to have full visibility of their leaked credentials, attack surface, and vulnerabilities affecting their digital infrastructure and their exposure on the Dark Web.  This is key in understanding how a hacker can target an organization and therefore prepare customers to cover all their blind spots effectively and be more resilient against cyber-attacks.  Cypherleak impacts various markets, from public companies in the US actively monitoring their leaked passwords to companies in Europe using the platform in their incident response and forensic investigation. 

Cypherleak Founder and CEO comments: “The fact that we’re able to provide such value in cyber resilience boils down to how we built our platform and its various modules. Our goal was to use best in class data sources and third-party APIs to complement our internal efforts, so it was natural to choose DarkOwl to boost our dark web search capabilities and offer our customers access to the world’s largest commercial database of Darknet content.” 

“We are excited to partner with Cypherleak and provide access to our darknet data with another ethically based company,” Mark Turnage, DarkOwl CEO states. “Our database will assist Cypherleak with instant searches and the ability to locate critical consumer and corporate data on the darknet.  We are happy to be a critical link in their full visibility of leaked credentials and vulnerabilities on the dark web.”   

About Cypherleak: 
Cypherleak is a subscription-based platform with 6 modules covering leaked passwords, attack surface management, an advanced vulnerability scanner and Dark Web exposure.  The platform allows customers to monitor key threat vectors and make use of threat intelligence in order to enhance their security posture.  Cypherleak is a product developed by Project Cypher, a multinational cybersecurity company based in the UK, United Arab Emirates and Morocco.  Project Cypher offers an array of traditional cybersecurity services (Penetration Testing, Training, Red Teaming) alongside operating an R&D center in-house tasked with developing cutting edge cybersecurity products.  https://cypherleak.com/ & https://projectcypher.com/ 

About DarkOwl: 
DarkOwl is the industry’s leading provider of darknet data. We offer the world’s largest commercially available database of information continuously collected from the darknet, allowing our customers the ability to turn this data into a powerful tool to identify risk at scale and drive better decision making. Our platform tools allow users to parse and analyze the data for specific use cases, and our database is updated from tens of thousands of sites across multiple darknets every day. 

DarkOwl is unique not only in the depth and breadth of its darknet data, but also in the relevance and searchability of its data, its investigation tools, and its passionate customer service. As importantly, DarkOwl data is ethically and safely collected from the darknet, allowing users secure and anonymous access to information and threats relevant to their mission. Our passion, our focus, and our expertise is the darknet.  https://www.darkowl.com/ 

HWG Enhances Cyber Security Monitoring with DarkOwl Partnership 

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DarkOwl is proud to announce a new partnership with HWG, a cyber security company leveraging a combination of cyber defense, machine intelligence and human expertise. 

As companies are more vulnerable to unknown threats due to the advancing digitalization and automation technologies they are using, cybercrime often accompanies that increased usage. HWG plays a central role in continuous security monitoring to prevent, detect, analyze, and respond to cyber threats.  In joining forces with DarkOwl, the world’s largest database of darknet content, HWG is now able to offer a deeper insight into darknet intelligence while monitoring companies’ information systems, detecting anomalies, and containing and responding to cyberattacks.  

Enrico Orlandi HWG CEO states: “We are pleased to partner with DarkOwl in the fight against cybercrime. This partnership will help us to achieve a higher level of investigative intelligence, thanks to their extensive knowledge of the darknet and the massive database of dark web content. DarkOwl’s data is critical for us to provide and improve a service that truly matches the needs of businesses.” 

Mark Turnage, DarkOwl CEO comments: “This partnership will have great impact for HWG businesses.  All organizations face huge cybersecurity challenges and getting ahead of them is critical. HWG has been in cybersecurity for years.  They desire to offer the best sophisticated cyber security solutions to support their suite of services through the Security Operations Center, with the power of DarkOwl’s darknet intelligence we are thrilled to assist them in their cyber security solutions for high-risk sectors.” 

About HWG 

HWG provides cyber security operations and consulting services to large and midsize enterprises with advanced security requirements, that don’t plan to keep security expert teams and infrastructure internally.  

Founded in 2008, HWG operates globally from the HQ in Italy (Verona) and offices in Vilnius, Dubai, and Singapore. A team of cyber security experts monitors customer digital environments 24×7 and is instantly ready to recognize cyber-attacks and fight them back. 

Being a trusted security provider for companies in over 20 countries, HWG knows how to improve cyber security resilience even across complex and sensitive environments like financial, automotive, industrial, telecom and others.  For more information, visit us at https://www.hwg.it/en 

About DarkOwl 

We are the darknet experts. DarkOwl was founded in 2016 and offers the world’s leading source of darknet data products. DarkOwl enables organizations to fully understand their security posture, detect potential breaches and violations of the law and mitigate them quickly. DarkOwl turns the darknet into a tool for our customers, enabling them to quantify risk at scale in order to make decisions that increase business success. By delivering the most prolific, relevant and timely darknet data available, our products ensure that our customers can find the exact data they need. DarkOwl’s robust ecosystem of products turns the dark web into a powerful tool to identify risk at scale and drive better decision making.  We offer a variety of options to access our data, please visit us at www.darkowl.com 

Grandview Technologies is Excited to Partner with Darknet Data Experts, DarkOwl to Enhance Security Information and Response Time 

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DarkOwl LLC, the Denver-based darknet big data cybersecurity company, and Grandview Technologies, a consulting and solutions provider delivering a range of services to guide clients through challenging IT environments, announce their partnership.  

DarkOwl will bring its vast database of darknet data to Grandview Technologies, which will be significantly influential in the companies’ platform and augment their detection capabilities in the Dark Web. 

We are excited about the partnership with DarkOwl; the world keeps evolving and it is vital for us to align with people moving in the direction that best fits where we are going. 

“The world has changed so much that traditional ways of following the money to apprehend criminals will soon be a thing of the past; we are happy to partner with DarkOwl to stay one step ahead of this ever changing and complex environment.” Kabrah Zwingina CEO 

Mark Turnage, CEO of DarkOwl comments; “This partnership will have significant impact for Grandview Technologies’ clients. In today’s ever changing technology landscape, organizations face huge cybersecurity challenges. Getting ahead of them is critical. Grandview Technologies will now have the power of DarkOwl’s darknet intelligence to help them with their mission to build stronger cooperation between communities.  

About Grandview Technologies: 
Grandview Technologies is a modern-day consulting and solutions provider, determined to improve the world through communal cooperation. We focus our solutions around building stronger participation among communities. We complement the efforts of security agencies through solutions that provide a better response and give accurate information. With over 10 years in the business, our vision is to provide personalized service of excellent quality. https://gvtechng.com/ 

About DarkOwl: 
We are darknet experts. DarkOwl was founded in 2016 and offers the world’s leading source of darknet data products. DarkOwl enables organizations to fully understand their security posture, detect potential breaches and violations of the law and mitigate them quickly. DarkOwl turns the darknet into a tool for our customers, enabling them to quantify risk at scale to make decisions that increase business success. By delivering the most prolific, relevant, and timely darknet data available, our products ensure that our customers can find the exact data they need. DarkOwl’s robust ecosystem of products turns the dark web into a powerful tool to identify risk at scale and drive better decision making.  We offer a variety of options to access our data, please visit us at  www.darkowl.com 

Operation Vax Industry Collaboration Helped to Ensure Safety & Security of COVID-19 Vaccine in U.S. & Abroad

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September 27, 2021

Contact: Sara Schaarschmidt, Hetherington Group

Phone: 973.706.7525

Email: [email protected]

Operation Vax Assisted in Preventing Disruptions in Transportation, Storage, and Distribution of Vaccine

Hetherington Group & the Healthcare Distribution Alliance Coordinated Efforts to Unite 75+ Industry Leaders and Public Agencies

(Wanaque, NJ) Hetherington Group and the Healthcare Distribution Alliance to recognize 75+ industry leaders and public agencies that collaborated at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Comprised of C-Suite healthcare, pharmaceutical, transportation, cybersecurity, and Department of Defense personnel, Operation Vax (OPVAX) helped to ensure the safe and secure transportation, storage, and distribution of the Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines in the United States and abroad.

This operation developed out of a simple phone call between two good friends: Chuck Forsaith of the Healthcare Distribution Alliance and the Hetherington Group’s President, Cynthia Hetherington—and grew into a distinguished collaborative effort that assisted in ensuring the safe and secure movement and delivery of Covid-19 vaccinations to millions of Americans and to foreign nations.

“We are proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with some of the nation’s brightest leaders, who were called upon to help protect our global community from a deadly virus and nefarious players seeking to disrupt the vaccine from reaching the neediest,” stated Hg’s President Cynthia Hetherington.

“I can’t be more appreciative of the efforts put forth by Cynthia, her team, and those she reached out to, to assist in this very important, very critical effort,” stated Chuck Forsaith of the HDA. “The incredibly generous, donated offers to help industry better protect the integrity of the COVID vaccine supply chain is truly remarkable. While I always knew my good friend was ‘connected,’ what I didn’t fully appreciate was how vast those connections actually were—and how much good will they could generate.”

Operation Vax relied on security experts, open-source intelligence gatherers, and boots-on-the-ground monitoring to identify and help thwart persons and entities seeking to disrupt, destroy, or steal vaccines. During bi-weekly meetings, Operation Vax members shared vital intelligence that enabled security experts to monitor groups and people of interest, perform location-specific event searches, and track risk on open and deep web sources. Global cybersecurity vendors Echosec Systems, Ltd, iThreat, and DarkOwl donated their services and platforms to the collaborative effort.

Over the course of OPVAX, analysts collected over 105,000 open and dark web sources reporting on potential threats to the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine. From there, analysts triaged 45,000 of those reports for further analysis—resulting in perpetual risk and vulnerability notifications to the OPVAX team.

iThreat detects, investigates, and mitigates threats to security, brand, reputation, operations, key personnel, intellectual property, and more with its SignalAlert programs. iThreat builds its solutions on decades of investigative experience and jumped at the opportunity to work on the OpVAX initiative. Its FusionCenter platform was well suited to be a nexus point for threat intelligence data related to the distribution of COVID19 vaccines. The FusionCenter platform provided data categorization, risk level ranking, search, and distribution efficiencies to iThreat analysts and partners, while SignalAlert provided monitoring and investigations programs.

“iThreat found the opportunity to work on this project very exciting and rewarding,” stated Jeff Bedser, CEO. “Opportunities like this one that assist with gratis services to serve the betterment of the community as a whole are rare. We are truly thankful to Cynthia for allowing us the opportunity to deploy our energies to this common need with such fruitful outcomes.”

Echosec Systems delivers streamlined access to indexed data from a wide range of social media, deep web, and dark web networks. Advanced filters allow users to zero in on specific keyword and location-based content, and machine-learning models classify the threat potential within posts to enable more effective prioritization. Security and intelligence teams worldwide trust Echosec Systems to detect key information within online chatter to improve situational awareness and inform risk response on the ground.

“The vaccine rollout came with a particularly complex set of risks, and staying ahead of these risks required a unique set of technology solutions,” stated James Villeneuve, Chief Revenue Officer of EchoSec Systems. “We’re proud to have partnered with Hetherington Group on this important initiative and congratulate the team and our fellow technology providers on a successful operation.”

DarkOwl is a Denver-based company that provides the world’s largest index of darknet content and the tools to efficiently find leaked or otherwise compromised sensitive data. DarkOwl’s darknet intelligence, databases, and tools shorten the timeframe to detection of compromised data on the darknet, empowering organizations to swiftly detect security gaps and mitigate damage prior to misuse of their data.

“When DarkOwl was asked to contribute intelligence from the darknet as part of this initiative, it was clear that the Hetherington Group and the Healthcare Distribution Alliance were serious about taking an all-hands approach to this effort that left no stone unturned,” stated Alison Halland, Chief Revenue Officer of DarkOwl. “Here at DarkOwl, we feel passionately that these types of collaborative task-forces have been vital to ensuring the safe roll-out of the vaccine, and we are dedicated to continuing to track vaccine-related risk on the deep web and darknet.”

About Hetherington Group

With over two decades of expertise, the Hetherington Group is a leader in investigative due diligence, corporate intelligence, and cyber investigations. Headquartered in Wanaque, New Jersey, Hg’s investigators and analysts track down and expose vital data on national and international investigations; train thousands of investigators in the public and private sectors annually; and share their expertise in this increasingly data-intensive, cyber focused-world through the publication of an Industry Newsletter and recognized investigative reference books. Hg is a certified National Women Business Owned Corporation, a certified Women’s Business Enterprise, a NJ Women Business Owned Corporation, and NY-NJ Port Authority Women-owned Business Enterprise.
www.hetheringtongroup.com

About the Healthcare Distribution Alliance (HAD)

The Healthcare Distribution Alliance (HDA) is the national organization representing primary pharmaceutical distributors — the vital link between the nation’s pharmaceutical manufacturers and pharmacies, hospitals, long-term care facilities, clinics and others nationwide.

Since 1876, HDA has helped members navigate regulations and innovations to get the right medicines to the right patients at the right time, safely and efficiently. HDA’s members include 36 national, regional and specialty primary distribution companies who are not just distributors, but are technology innovators, information management experts, security specialists and efficiency professionals. Their expertise streamlines the supply chain to ensure safety and efficiency, while also achieving cost savings for our nation’s healthcare system.

Additionally, the HDA Research Foundation, HDA’s non-profit charitable foundation, serves the healthcare industry by providing research and education focused on priority healthcare supply chain issues.
www.hda.org

About DarkOwl

DarkOwl is led by a team of data enthusiasts whose backgrounds are rooted in dark web research and open source intelligence. We are darknet experts. DarkOwl was founded in 2016, and we are the world’s leading provider of DARKINT™, darknet intelligence and offer the largest commercially available database of darknet content. DarkOwl enables cybersecurity organizations, law enforcement and government organizations to fully understand their security posture and detect potential breaches and violations of the law and mitigate them quickly. We offer a variety of options to access our data.
https://www.darkowl.com/

About iThreat

Founded in 1997, iThreat has been on the leading edge of providing internet investigative solutions. iThreat’s solutions evolve from a desire to build monitoring and detection offerings to rapidly detect and mitigate DNS abuse and other threats that impact our clients’ brand, key personnel, reputation and security. Rapid detection, investigation, and mitigation reduce the timeframe of victimization and prevent escalation of problems. While many solutions revolve around detecting hacks and network anomalies, iThreat focuses on detecting consequential human-driven dialogue and text that represent threats to our clients. Our solutions include SignalAlert monitoring and investigations programs and CleanDNS® solutions for Internet domain abuse monitoring.
https://ithreat.com/

About Echosec Systems, Ltd.

In 2013, our founding CEO—a veteran cartographer, was tasked with building a tool to map social media use around a Canadian university campus. It wasn’t long before a military general, as well as a key investor, saw the potential for the technology and it began its evolution into a security intelligence solution unlike anything on the market. Now, the Echosec Systems Platform has become a fundamental tool for the intelligence community and enterprise security teams worldwide. It is prized by teams who value speed to information, breadth of data, and ease of use. These factors are critical for reducing training time, enabling new users to be effective on day one.
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