Cybercrime Protection
What to look out for as cyber criminals capitilise on the current COVID-19 pandemic and how to protect yourselves.
Criminals target organisations for the data they hold, to sell it on, use it themselves, or to extort money from them.
Organisations have a duty of care to ensure that adequate protections are in place to maintain data security and to deter and prevent crime.
A cybercrime or data protection incident can result in reputational damage, financial loss, and public embarrassment, as well as fines of up to €20 million from the Information Commissioner’s Office.
For an initial assessment of your vulnerability complete our
We can help you in five key ways:
Diagnose
- Map databases and information assets
- Assess levels of GDPR compliance
- Test cyber resilience against Cyber Essentials plus standard
- Test defences by penetration testing
- Assess incident response crisis communications preparedness
Strengthen
- Plan for resilience
- Ensure GDPR compliance
- Action to address vulnerabilities
- Plan and bolster crisis communications
Manage
- Incident triage
- Crisis communications and media management
Investigate
- What happened and who is affected
- Severity of the breach
- Remediation to recover
Mitigate
- Minimise legal consequences
- Reduce fines and penalties
- Address compliance failures
- Pro-active PR and reputation building
Are your email addresses and passwords being sold on the Dark Web?
Our Dark Web service has found compromised email credentials in every check we have undertaken to date.
Criminals trade stolen usernames and passwords on the Dark Web, often for as little as $2 each. The stolen credentials are used to gain access to email accounts, hack organisations and commit cybercrime– a growing issue for organisations which is being publicly reported on an almost daily basis.
Part of Crowe’s Dark Web service includes checking whether any of your organisation’s email addresses are available for sale. Undertaking regular checks protects your organisation from cybercrime, enabling you to prevent a compromise using stolen credentials.
Protect your organisation
Our Dark Web check is available as a one off or on an on-going basis. Contact Jim Gee, National Head of Forensic Services, if you would like to discuss how Crowe’s Dark Web services can help to protect your organisation from cybercrime.
The Dark Web - Bad for business
Our latest report summarises research into the nature and extent of discussions on the Dark Web with the intent to attack and damage companies through fraud and cybercrime.
We quickly found discussions and attempts to market services and products intended to defraud or perpetrate cybercrime against 21 of the top 50 UK brands of 2017.
For ease of analysis, we split our findings against the top 50 UK brands into four key sector groups.
- Banking and finance.
- Telecommunications.
- Retail and entertainment.
- Energy and transport.
The full report gives detailed analysis of what we found and understand why the Dark Web is bad for business.
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