DarkOwl Recaps 2023 Product Launches and Threat-Intelligence Developments

Summary
DarkOwl’s 2023 recap highlights launches including DarkSonar, Darknet Services and Actor Explore, plus Vision UI availability on AWS Marketplace. The company says internal and beta testing found elevated DarkSonar scores before about 75% of publicly acknowledged breach
Key points
- DarkOwl launched DarkSonar, a risk rating based on darknet intelligence that assesses organizational credential exposure.
- The company says internal and beta testing found elevated DarkSonar scores in the months before a cyberattack in approximately 75% of cases where a company publicly acknowledged a breach.
- DarkOwl introduced customizable Darknet Services, including analyst support for darknet risk analysis, threat-actor profiling, monitoring and brand protection.
- Actor Explore, added to DarkOwl Vision UI, provides analyst-curated threat-actor profiles and links to associated data such as leak sites and ransomware sites.
- DarkOwl made Vision UI available through AWS Marketplace and says it reported on cyber activity related to the Hamas-Israel conflict.
Article Details
- Event Type
- Corporate year-end recap covering product launches, service offerings, and platform enhancements.
- Impact
- DarkOwl reported launching DarkSonar API, Darknet Services, and Actor Explore, and making Vision UI available through AWS Marketplace. DarkSonar's internal and beta-partner testing found elevated scores before approximately 75% of breaches in cases where a company publicly acknowledged a breach; DarkOwl said the rate was as high as 85% in some instances. These are company-reported findings, not independently verified results.
Vendors
Amazon Web ServicesDarkOwl Announces Availability of Vision UI on AWS MarketplaceBlackbird.AIOur next hands-on lab, we hosted with Blackbird.AI at the Carahsoft headquarters in Reston, VA as well, “Explore Darknet Data and Beyond With DarkOwl and Blackbird.” In this session, attendees once again got directDarkOwlWith 2023 at a close, our content and marketing teams reflect on a number of exciting events, trends and changes the DarkOwl team experienced this year.
Products
Actor ExploreActor Explore: Your Ultimate Resource for Cyber Threat Actor IntelligenceConstellation Platformplatform and conduct darknet searches in a Scavenger Hunt and see in real-time, how Blackbird’s Constellation Platform aggregates and adds color to this data.Darknet ServicesDarknet Services OfferingDarkSonar APIDarkSonar API LaunchVision UIDarkOwl’s industry leading Vision UI provides access to the largest commercially available database of darknet content in the world, without having to access the darknet directly, so you can take action to prevent