by Colin Konschak and Shane Danaher
By now people in every business sector have heard about and learned to fear the Dark Web, whether or not they truly understand what it is or why they should be afraid of it. Credit monitoring and financial management companies offer Dark Web threat detection services, promising to keep individuals safe from it by continually scanning it to let them know if any of their sensitive information is spotted. Credit monitoring and financial management companies take advantage of this fear by offering Dark Web threat detection services, promising to scan the Dark Web for individuals’ sensitive information.
Despite all of this concern and activity, the Dark Web—unlike other issues we have covered in this cybersecurity whitepaper series—is not something like ransomware, phishing, denial of services attacks, or other threats The Dark Web is where all cybercriminals can communicate with each other – it is an online black marketplace for stolen information that provides a great degree of anonymity for cybercriminals.
What it does in terms of its relationship to healthcare is incentivize these other nefarious activities and make healthcare a particularly lucrative target for those crimes because of the usefulness of its information. That’s why the Dark Web is important to consider in keeping sensitive information safe in healthcare. In this latest whitepaper in our cybersecurity series, we explore the Dark Web and present some methods for securing your information, starting with a few definitions.
Download the full white paper – Why the Dark Web Matters to Healthcare Cybersecurity.
