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

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, LtdiThreat, 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.
https://www.echosec.net/

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September 27, 2021|Covid-19, Cyber Investigations, Cyberhacking, Cybersecurity, Dark Web, Darknet, DarkOwl, Echosec, Healthcare Distribution Alliance, Investigations, iThreat, Operation Vax, OPVAX, OSINT, Vaccines

ARES Cyber Intelligence GmbH and Darknet Data Experts, DarkOwl Align in Strategic Partnership

Denver, CO – WEBWIRE – Friday, June 18, 2021

“With Darkowl, we have a partner that enables us to detect possible threats in advance and to combine multiple sources of information.”

DarkOwl LLC, is proud to announce a new partnership with ARES Cyber Intelligence GmbH. ARES is an Austrian-based cybersecurity company specializing in preventive solutions as well as incident response and forensics. They serve the German-speaking, DACH region (Deutschland, Austria, Switzerland) of Europe.

As companies are more and more vulnerable to unknown threats due to the advancing digitalization and automation technologies that they are using, cybercrime often accompanies that increased usage. ARES brings strong detection and prevention solution to the industry. And, in joining forces with DarkOwl, the world’s largest database of darknet content, ARES is now able to offer their customers deeper insight into darknet intelligence and how to leverage it to safeguard against breaches, hacks and cyberattacks.

Mark Turnage, CEO at DarkOwl says of ARES: “They are an emerging cybersecurity consulting firm that gives their customers an advantage by helping them recognize risk at an early stage and develop a joint strategy with them to protect their company assets. DarkOwl’s darknet intelligence is a vital element in doing so and we are thrilled to be part of their assessment suite.”

Jürgen Weiss, CEO at ARES says: “We offer preventive cyber services to our customers, and we want to use the best possible technology for this purpose. With Darkowl, we have a partner that enables us to detect possible threats in advance and to combine multiple sources of information. Our Darknet Services also help after a cyberattack to detect possible data theft and to initiate an ‘AfterCare’ process.”

DarkOwl will be joining ARES in September for the CONFARE CIO Summit in Vienna. ARES is offering Summit attendees the opportunity to learn more about the darknet and the potential dangers, and to audit their company domain for free.

About Ares Cyber Intelligence GmbH
ARES Cyber Intelligence consists of an international team of experts with many years of experience and top references. We support our customers in all aspects of their corporate security. Together with our clients we aim to identify the risk of a threat as early as possible and to prevent cyber attacks before the company suffers damage. We act discreetly and trustfully in the interest of our clients.

About DarkOwl
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, please visit us at www.darkowl.com

Media Contact
For DarkOwl:
Kim Ketchel
Director of Marketing, DarkOwl

TBG Security chooses Darknet Data Experts, DarkOwl to bolster its Risk Management Services

Denver, CO – WEBWIRE – Thursday, April 29, 2021

“Most of our clients realize that it’s only a matter of time before information from or about their organization and/or it’s people gets posted on the dark web,” says Frank Murphy CEO, TBG Security.

Threat intelligence experts TBG Security have partnered with DarkOwl, the leaders in darknet data, adding another critical module to their risk management suite of solutions.

TBG will now be able to leverage to power of DarkOwl’s vast database of darknet content on behalf of its clients helping to ensure that they are minimizing uncertainty in an increasingly hostile information environment. TBG helps organizations plan, implement and monitor successful cyber security programs that align with their business objectives.

Mark Turnage, CEO at DarkOwl comments: “The professionals at TBG Security have worked in cybersecurity for years and their wealth of knowledge and dedication to their clients are best in class. Whether your goal is to comply with regulatory requirements, test your system for vulnerabilities or improve your overall security posture, they will tailor an offering to meet your needs.”

TBG Security offers a wide range of security services, all designed to improve and maintain an organizations overall security posture. They leverage their expertise in cyber security, risk and compliance management, virtual CISO, vendor risk management, security consulting, penetration testing and red teaming. TBG designs and delivers solutions to work in harmony with a company’s existing operations and has been assisting clients of various sizes for over 15 years.

“Most of our clients realize that it’s only a matter of time before information from or about their organization and/or it’s people gets posted on the dark web,” says Frank Murphy CEO, TBG Security. “By partnering with Dark Owl, we are providing our team with access to the largest dataset of darknet intelligence, putting us in a much better position to provide our clients with a complete and accurate picture of the threats posed to their business as well as their personnel. As a trusted advisor to our clients, leveraging DarkOwl allows us to provide our clients with a comprehensive view of their risk posture and positions us to better protect them against the bad actors.”
 
About TBG Security
TBG Security is a leading provider of information security and risk management solutions for Fortune 1000 and Fortune 500 companies. TBG designs and delivers cybersecurity solutions to work in harmony with existing operations. Companies depend on TBG services in areas including risk management, security strategies for compliance, vendor risk management, physical, network and application security thru penetration testing and red teaming. We tailor our solutions to meet your business needs. For more information visit us at https://tbgsecurity.com.

About DarkOwl
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, please visit us at www.darkowl.com

 

Media Contact
For DarkOwl:
Kim Ketchel
Director of Marketing, DarkOwl

Top Breach and Attack Emulation Firm, rThreat Engages Darknet Data Powerhouse, DarkOwl

rThreat will use the power of DarkOwl’s vast darknet data to enhance their ability to detect darknet chatter regarding malware and other cyber threats

Denver, CO – WEBWIRE – Thursday, April 22, 2021

DarkOwl and breach and attack emulation experts rThreat have partnered allowing rThreat and its clients to have eyes on the darknet, thus increasing their powerful zero-day research capabilities.

rThreat enables cybersecurtiy teams to strategically anticipate and respond to both known and unknown threats by implementing a proactive instead of reactive approach, prioritizing which alerts they must respond to first, and developing better informed responses to security incidents.

Mark Turnage, DarkOwl CEO comments: “This partnership will have great impact for rThreat clients.  All organizations face huge cybersecurity challenges and getting ahead of them is critical. The rThreat team wrote the book on this and now have the power of DarkOwl’s darknet intelligence to make their attack methodologies and platform even stronger.”  

The rThreat platform allows organizations to visualize their defense performance (both human and technological) through on-demand testing. By tracking this performance, information can provide early warning signs of which targeted attacks can potentially impact an organization. This information also allows organizations to identify and address vulnerabilities that may exist in your infrastructure.

rThreat enables Security Operation Centers, Information Security Professionals, and Incident Response Teams to conduct a pragmatic assessment of deployed cybersecurity solutions focused on objectively addressing cyber threats.

Hugo Sanchez, CEO and Co-Founder of rThreat Inc, stated: “Our team is very excited to announce the partnership between DarkOwl and rThreat. Utilizing DarkOwl’s darknet intelligence will provide our team valuable data for the creation of our known and unknown threat artifacts. It’s imperative for our developers and customers to understand the latest TTPs that are being leveraged by various threat actors. DarkOwl’s platform will allow us to maintain a constant eye on the darknet so our customers can stay up-to-date on the latest attack methodologies seen in sophisticated cyberattacks.”
 
About rThreat
rThreat’s mission is to help clients prevent cyber-attacks both known and, most importantly, unknown. rThreat is the first company to make available to its clients real known and unknown zero-day artifacts for the measurement and validation of cybersecurity solutions. rThreat was born in response to the need to pragmatically evaluate an organization’s security posture against potential attacks and security breaches with zero-day artifacts. As a result, rThreat has developed a scalable platform with the latest technologies capable of providing an authentic testing environment that can be used in real-time to evaluate the security posture of its clients For more information, visit us at www.rthreat.net
 
 
About DarkOwl
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, please visit us at www.darkowl.com
 
Media Contacts
For DarkOwl:
Kim Ketchel
Director of Marketing, DarkOwl
 
For rThreat
Daniela Applegate
VP of Marketing, rThreat
[email protected]
 

Blueliv, Europe’s Premiere CyberThreat Intelligence Company, Strikes Data Sharing Partnership with DarkOwl, the Global Darknet Authority

Denver, CO – WEBWIRE – Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Darknet data experts, DarkOwl and BlueLiv, Europe’s top cyber security company have formed a partnership that will bring extensive darknet intelligence data to BlueLiv’s Threat Compass users. In return, DarkOwl will add BlueLiv’s vast database of threat intelligence to its darknet database.

BlueLiv’s Threat Context platform provides SOC, Incident Response and Threat Intelligence teams with continuously updated and intuitive information around threat actors, campaigns, malware indicators, attack patterns, tools, signatures and CVEs. DarkOwl’s Vision UI automatically, anonymously and continuously collects, indexes and ranks actionable data from the darknet 24/7/365, which allows analysts to effectively search, monitor, and receive alerts from a safe environment when leaked data appears on the darknet.
 
“I’m thrilled to partner with DarkOwl in the fight against cybercrime and have the opportunity to share our collective resources for our customers,” comments Daniel Solis, CEO and founder of Blueliv. “Beyond the welcome market reach for both parties, this partnership will grant us new insights for rapidly identifying our customer’s compromised data and helping them take quick, decisive steps towards mitigating the situation, as well as offering a brand new, supplemented approach to market.”
 
BlueLiv covers the broadest range of threats on the market with a pay-as-you-need modular architecture which delivers streamlined, cost-effective intelligence in real-time, backed by a world-class in-house analyst team.  Using Blueliv’s database of over 200 million items, the easy-to-use module offers pivoting capabilities so analysts can rapidly gather enriched, contextualized information to enhance cybersecurity processes before, during and after an attack

DarkOwl CEO, Mark Turnage comments, “BlueLiv’s command of threat intelligence is outstanding. Their module-based approach is valuable as clients can build out their cyber security protocol in their own timeline. Our extensive darknet data broadens BlueLiv’s darknet intelligence offering, and we are enhancing our database by incorporating BlueLiv’s threat intelligence into our platform. This important partnership gives both DarkOwl and BlueLiv clients access to an enormous spectrum of threat intelligence.”

About BlueLiv
Blueliv is Europe’s leading cyberthreat intelligence provider, headquartered in Barcelona, Spain. Blueliv’s mission is to empower our customers with a collaborative, automated and targeted threat intelligence, to fight the cybercrime and help them manage their digital risk as quickly as the threat landscape changes. Covering the broadest range of threats on the market, a pay-as-you-need modular architecture means customers receive streamlined, cost-effective intelligence delivered in real-time, backed by our world-class in-house analyst team. Intelligence modules are scalable, easy to deploy and easy to use, maximizing security resource while accelerating threat detection, incident response performance and forensic investigations. Blueliv is recognized across the industry by analysts including Gartner and Forrester, and has earned multiple awards for its technology and services including ‘Security Company of the Year 2019’ by Red Seguridad, Enterprise Security and Enterprise Threat Detection 2018 category winners by Computing.co.uk, in addition to holding affiliate membership of FS-ISAC for several years.
 
About DarkOwl
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, please visit us at www.darkowl.com

 

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For DarkOwl:
Kim Ketchel
Director of Marketing, DarkOwl

 

For Blueliv:
Ludovic Pivetal
Marketing Director
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Asia’s Premiere Incident Response Company, Blackpanda and Darknet Experts DarkOwl Strike Partnership to Enhance Cyber Crisis Management

Denver, CO – WEBWIRE – Wednesday, December 23, 2020 — Top US darknet intelligence company, DarkOwl and the digital forensics experts at Blackpanda are pleased to announce a partnership that will provide Blackpanda’s clients with expanded protection and detection of cyber risk.

Gene Yu, Co-Founder and CEO of Blackpanda comments, “Blackpanda is excited to partner with DarkOwl. Their extensive knowledge of the darknet and massive database of dark web content adds another layer of investigative intelligence, providing a better understanding of the incident for Blackpanda and the client alike to remediate the breach swiftly and effectively.”

Through the course of an investigation, Blackpanda has three primary objectives: to determine if a customer is under attack; if the customer is still at risk of an identical attack; and lastly, if sensitive data has been exfiltrated. By partnering with DarkOwl, Blackpanda is able to scan the dark web, as well as the unindexed Internet, for any private customer information that could act as a preliminary indicator of compromise, existing gaps and vulnerabilities, or any sensitive data being sold on dark web forums – essentially enhancing the answers to the three primary questions of Blackpanda’s incident response investigation. DarkOwl’s platform also allows for continuous monitoring for any future signs of a data breach.

The team at Blackpanda is hyper-focused on incident response and are the leading digital forensics and cyber crisis management firm in Asia. Positioned throughout the region and incorporating both Western and Asian business disciplines they offer their clients best in class cyber security. Drawing on the team’s military special forces background, Blackpanda maintains both the specialized technical expertise and client-centric cultural understanding necessary to lead our clients through crisis and beyond.

“We are honored to partner with Blackpanda, one of Asia’s top IR and digital forensics teams.  Their reputation is superb, and they bring an elite group of security experts from special forces, intelligence, forensics and law enforcement to the challenges at hand. Adding DarkOwl’s darknet intelligence into the mix of their existing investigative tools is a natural fit” says DarkOwl CEO, Mark Turnage.

About Blackpanda
Blackpanda is Asia’s premier digital forensics and incident response firm, hyper-focused solely on digital forensics and cyber crisis response. Our team consists of an elite cadre of risk and security experts from international special forces, intelligence, forensics and law enforcement backgrounds. We are highly trained, ready to respond to and help manage crises on short notice, when and wherever needed. To learn more, please visit www.Blackpanda.com
 
About DarkOwl
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, detect potential breaches and violations of the law and mitigate them quickly. We offer a variety of options to access our data, please visit us at www.darkowl.com

FinClusive Taps Darknet Data Expert Darkowl to Broaden Its Initiatives to Provide Inclusive Financial Access

FinClusive is breaking the mold of financial access for millions of businesses and individuals with Compliance as a Service, supported by tools such as darknet data intelligence.

Denver, CO – WEBWIRE – Tuesday, December 8, 2020

DarkOwl and FinClusive announced today a partnership that will enable FinClusive access to DarkOwl’s massive darknet database in support of its Compliance as a Service (CaaS) platform and its mission to expand access to financial services to the underserved.

FinClusive is the only provider that is built on proven systems to create secure, user-friendly financial engagement and is delivering the core elements of a scalable and compliant-centric digital financial services platform. Their goal is to bring secure, compliance-centered banking to the 2.5 to 3.5 billion people and businesses worldwide who are financially excluded or underserved and make compliance simple and access to basic financial services seamless.

Amit Sharma, FinClusive’s CEO states, “As many as 3.5 billion people and millions of organizations worldwide are underserved or excluded from the financial system.  It’s not enough to simply put the tools in place to enable organizations that provide financial services to be the most robust bunker on the planet; that bunker must allow more people and businesses into the system.  Our partnership with Dark Owl will enable greater transparency and security while making financial access easier for many around the world.”

FinClusive’s Compliance as a Service (CaaS) is an automated and full-stack financial crimes compliance (FCC) solution in one workflow designed for traditional banks and modern financial technology companies. Features include:

  • Evaluate actual vs perceived compliance risk—of individuals and businesses

  • Dynamically screen thousands of data and risk management sources globally

  • Comprehensive due diligence—from basic to enhanced, and offline data—fully integrated

DarkOwl CEO, Mark Turnage comments, “FinClusive’s approach to compliance is revolutionary and it provides a single risk and compliance gateway to secure financial services that have been out of reach for so many small businesses, individuals and non-profits. We applaud their mission and recognize their groundbreaking technological expertise and look forward to a very successful partnership”
 

About FinClusive
FinClusive is a hybrid fin-/reg-tech company that provides a full-stack financial crimes compliance (FCC) platform that facilitates inclusion (access to secure accounts and payments) for the world’s financially underserved and excluded.  FinClusive recognizes the growth in alternative financial services and technologies and the opportunity they afford to supporting financial inclusion globally, and we help bridge these growing systems and traditional banking with comprehensive compliance to reinforce financial system integrity and access in tandem. Learn more at www.finclusive.com
 

About DarkOwl
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, detect potential breaches and violations of the law and mitigate them quickly. We offer a variety of options to access our data, please visit us at www.darkowl.com
 
 
 
 
 
 
Media Contact
For DarkOwl:
Kim Ketchel
Director of Marketing, DarkOwl
[email protected]

Tactical Analysis Intelligence and Darknet Data Experts DarkOwl Engage in Partnership to Accelerate Risk Assessment and Management

Tactical AI is excited for the opportunity to enhance our current data search and monitoring services with expanded darknet data through our partnership with Dark Owl. Tactical AI’s search system provides critical data used for legal disputes, risk management, and due diligence, while our monitoring system provides our clients with prompt alerts necessary to limit the damaging effects of information security breaches.

“Our mission is to provide the most comprehensive set of information available on the surface, deep, and dark webs, and in the timeliest possible manner,” says Wayne McDowell, CEO of Tactical Analysis Intelligence. “The scope of the darknet data provided by Dark Owl and the speed in which it is received allows us to gather complete and accurate threat and business intelligence pictures for our clients and to promote an immediate and quick response.”

Leveraging 30+ years in the cyber security, threat and risk industry, Tactical AI’s proprietary analysis technology uncovers information not available using traditional techniques, allowing businesses to make informed decisions more quickly and solve the toughest and most critical business problems.

DarkOwl CEO Mark Turnage comments: “This is a great fit for our vast darknet database, Tactical AI’s proprietary deep search system and their breach monitoring ability taps directly into DarkOwl’s power. We are thrilled to assist them in protecting their clients IP, PII, financial information and data from exposure.”

Tactical AI’s team consists of legal experts, private investigators, former intelligence officers, and security and risk management specialists. They routinely monitor both public and non-public internet sources to ensure that their clients remain safe from cyberattacks.

About Tactical Analysis Intelligence
Tactical AI is a data search and monitoring company with offices located in Chicago, Illinois and Toronto, Canada. With over 30 years in the cyber intelligence industry, we provide information not available using traditional techniques, allowing businesses to make informed decisions more quickly and solve the toughest and most critical business problems. Tactical AI’s monitoring services have helped protect Intellectual Property, Asset Data, and Financial Information from breach and exposure to competitors. www.tactical-ai.com

About DarkOwl
We are darknet experts. DarkOwl was founded in 2016, we are the world’s leading provider of DARKINT™, darknet intelligence and offer the world’s largest commercially available database of darknet content. DarkOwl enables cybersecurity organizations, law enforcement and government organizations to fully understand their security posture, detect potential breaches and violations of the law and mitigate them quickly. We offer a variety of options to access our data, please visit us at www.darkowl.com

Media Contact
For DarkOwl:
Kim Ketchel
Director of Marketing, DarkOwl

Ontic Partners with DarkOwl, Adding Significant Index of Deep and Dark Web Data to Unified Protective Intelligence Software Offering

Immediate access to the world’s largest dark web dataset, as well as critical open source and public data seamlessly surfaces pre-incident physical threat indicators to help mitigate potential harm to Fortune 500 executives, employees, customers and assets

Ontic, the protective intelligence software innovator digitally transforming how companies actively identify, investigate, assess, watch and manage physical security threats, today announced a partnership with DarkOwl LLC, the leading provider of darknet, deep web, and high-risk surface net data. The partnership provides Ontic Fortune 500 clients with the ability to surface actionable insights from dark net data through the Ontic software platform for a more comprehensive view of potential physical threats to their business.

“In today’s world bad actors are posting less threatening information on publicly available websites and more nefarious and alarming information on the dark and deep web,” says Ontic CEO Lukas Quanstrom. “Through our partnership with DarkOwl, Ontic becomes the only protective intelligence platform to unite the largest dataset of dark web data that exists today with that from social media, news sites, public and criminal records, and company-proprietary records. This gives physical security professionals at corporations a proactive and more holistic way to address physical security threats.”

DarkOwl is the world’s leading provider of DARKINT™, darknet intelligence and the world’s largest commercially available database of darknet content. It automatically, continuously, and anonymously collects, indexes and ranks darknet, deep web, and high-risk surface net data. Because its platform collects and stores data in real-time, darknet sites that frequently change location and availability can be queried in a safe and secure manner without having to access the darknet itself.

“Darknet content is often overlooked as it relates to physical security threat management but is key to helping connect the dots on potential threats to businesses,” says Mark Turnage, chief executive officer, DarkOwl. “We’re proud to partner with Ontic and fuel the new technology-driven standard it has created for unifying critical threat data physical security teams need to identify, investigate, assess, watch and act on both known and unknown threats.”

DarkOwl darknet data is currently accessible to clients via Ontic’s platform, where end-users will benefit from support and guidance from the Ontic and DarkOwl teams to ensure successful use of the data.

About DarkOwl

We are darknet experts. DarkOwl was founded in 2016, we are the world’s leading provider of DARKINT ™, darknet intelligence and offer the world’s largest commercially available database of darknet content. DarkOwl enables cybersecurity organizations, law enforcement and government organizations to fully understand their security posture, detect potential breaches and violations of the law and mitigate them quickly. We offer a variety of options to access our data, please visit us at www.darkowl.com

About Ontic

Ontic is the first protective intelligence software company to digitally transform how Fortune 500 and emerging enterprises proactively address physical threat management to protect employees, customers and assets. Ontic’s SaaS-based platform collects and connects threat indicators to provide a comprehensive view of potential threats while surfacing critical knowledge so companies can assess and action more to maintain business continuity and reduce financial impact. ForFor more information please visit ontictechnologies.com

Press Contacts

For Ontic:
Zander Wharton
[email protected]
203-733-2815

For DarkOwl:
Kim Ketchel
Director of Marketing, DarkOwl

Darknet Data Provider DarkOwl Releases Powerful New API Product: Entity API

The Newest Member of our API Product Suite Allows Users to Request Pinpointed, Targeted Information From the Darknet

Denver, CO – Monday, November 2, 2020 – DarkOwl is proud to announce the launch of an exciting new product, Entity API, on the DarkOwl Vision platform. Entity API provides contextual and highly targeted information from the darknet about Email Addresses and Domains, Credit Cards and BINs, IP Addresses and IP Range, and Cryptocurrency Addresses and Type.

“In ongoing discussions with many of our clients, we hear and understand how critical it is for them to quickly discern the severity of an email compromise, or the exposure of an IP address,” said Sarah Prime, Director of Product Technology. “Entity API is a new way for DarkOwl Vision to provide very specific darknet insights that our customers need to know and monitor.”

Entity API delivers distilled information from DarkOwl Vision’s large collection of DARKINT™ data, which includes sources from Tor, I2P, ZeroNet, encrypted chat, data breaches, and others. Entity API allows users to very quickly and efficiently identify, monitor and target particular threats in the darknet that are relevant to their particular needs and use cases.

DarkOwl CEO, Mark Turnage states: “We have our pulse on the darknet and we understand how the cybersecurity industry and law enforcement use darknet data and need it delivered.  Our goal is to offer the option of more targeted, very specific data endpoints in Entity API, which is a great complement to our Vision Search API and Score API products.”

Entity API joins DarkOwl’s list of growing API data products, which includes Search API and Score API.  With Search API users can access DarkOwl Vision’s data collection, with native search capabilities in 47 languages and create targeted searches with Boolean operators, regular expressions, and filters to retrieve full text results, with associated metadata and entities. The Score API product allows users to calculate the darknet exposure of any organization based on the hackishness and recency of relevant information found in DarkOwl Vision.

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