Know when your passwords leak
Dark Web Monitoring
Your team's passwords are for sale somewhere right now; the only question is which ones and how recent. Dark web monitoring watches the markets and dumps where stolen credentials trade, and tells us the day your company's turn up.
How credentials end up for sale
Rarely from your systems. Someone signs up for a project tool, a shopping site or a webinar with their work email and a familiar password, that third party gets breached, and the pair lands in a dump traded on forums you will never visit. Attackers then try the same pair against your email, your VPN and your bank, a technique called credential stuffing that works precisely because people reuse passwords. The public proof of scale sits at Have I Been Pwned, which indexes billions of leaked accounts; the commercial dumps are larger and fresher.
What dark web monitoring covers
Your domains, watched continuously: every account ending in your company's name, checked against new breach dumps, paste sites and credential markets as they surface. Executive names and privileged accounts get extra attention, because a leaked password for the controller is worth more to a criminal than fifty from the warehouse. When something surfaces, the alert comes with context: which address, which breach, how fresh, and whether the exposed password still matches a live account.
What happens when we get a hit
An alert nobody acts on is a subscription, not a service. Dark web monitoring at MBPS comes wired to response: the exposed password is reset the same day, multi-factor authentication is confirmed on the account so the stolen password is useless anyway, sign-in logs get checked for anyone who already tried it, and repeat offenders get a gentle enrollment in security awareness training, because the third leak from the same habits is a training problem.
Where it fits in the stack
Dark web monitoring is an early-warning layer, not a fortress. It tells you a key was copied before the burglar reaches the door. The door itself is guarded by email security and the rest of the perimeter, and the managed SOC watches for anyone already inside. Most clients get monitoring bundled into their security agreement, with the first domain scan run during onboarding. That first report is reliably the most persuasive document we produce: almost every company over ten years old finds its own name in a breach it never heard about.
MBPS provides IT services in Phoenix, Las Vegas and Houston.