Platform · Digital risk protection

Brand, data and credentials, watched twenty-four-seven.

Dark-web monitoring, leaked-credential detection, brand and domain abuse, exposed data. The outside-in side of digital risk — discovered, ranked, and (where appropriate) escalated to the vendor.

What is digital risk protection?

Digital risk protection (DRP) is the monitoring of an organisation's exposure across the open, deep and dark web for threats that sit outside its own infrastructure — leaked credentials, exposed data, impersonation and brand abuse.

It differs from attack surface management by what it looks at. Attack surface management asks what of yours is exposed and reachable; digital risk protection asks what about you is circulating out there. Typical coverage includes credentials appearing in breach corpora and combolists, confidential documents or source code posted publicly, lookalike and typosquatted domains registered against your brand, fraudulent social and mobile app profiles, mentions in ransomware leak sites and criminal forums, and exposed API keys or secrets in public code repositories.

In a third-party context it extends to your vendors, and this is where it earns its place in TPRM. Credentials leaked from a supplier are frequently the initial access vector into a chain of organisations, and a vendor appearing on a ransomware leak site is often the first public confirmation of an incident they have not yet disclosed to you — usually well before any notification arrives.

The reality

The numbers your team already knows.

Digital risk protection has historically been an alerts firehose — too many sources, too little context, too late to matter. The job is correlation, not collection.

24×

Increase in dark-web credential dumps over the last five years

Industry estimate

~80%

Of leaked-credential alerts in typical DRP feeds are noise

Industry estimate

Hours

From a new dump appearing to REX correlating it to a vendor

The agents that drive this

REX watches. NOVA escalates. VANCE composes the report.

REX detects the digital exposure. When the issue belongs to a vendor, NOVA reaches out on the right channel. When it's an audit-grade incident, VANCE composes the regulator-ready report.

REX

Risk & Breach Intelligence

The signal layer for everything outside your perimeter. BreachWatch correlates dark-web dumps and leaked credentials. The Digital Footprint Scanner spots brand and domain abuse. Findings arrive ranked, not as raw alerts.

What you get

BreachWatch — dark-web and leaked-credential monitoring
Brand and domain abuse detection
Findings ranked by impact and attributed to the right vendor

NOVA

Vendor Relationship Manager

When the issue is the vendor's, the vendor hears about it — properly. NOVA escalates findings to the right vendor contact across email, WhatsApp or in-app chat — subject to your autonomy mode.

What you get

Three-channel vendor outreach — email, WhatsApp, in-app
Detects vendor-contact churn and re-routes
Customer can join any conversation NOVA opens

VANCE

Vendor Analysis & Compliance

Incident, written up the way the regulator wants to read it. For audit-grade or regulator-grade events, VANCE composes the report from live data — DORA, NIS2, GDPR, FCA framings included.

What you get

Regulatory Reporting — DORA, NIS2, GDPR, FCA, ADHICS
Audit Insights for board and internal audit
Issue Insights — patterns across the vendor portfolio

What changes

From alerts firehose to ranked decisions.

The work shifts from sifting feeds to acting on findings — and the action loop actually closes, because NOVA can talk to the vendor on your behalf.

Findings arrive correlated, not raw

A leaked credential is matched to the vendor it belongs to, the system it relates to, and the impact it implies.

Vendor outreach happens

NOVA tells the vendor what was found, on the channel they actually read — instead of sitting in your queue waiting to draft an email.

Brand abuse stops being someone else's job

Lookalike domains, fake apps and scraped trademarks surface in the same place as the rest of your digital risk picture.

Reporting writes itself

When a finding crosses an audit threshold, VANCE produces the regulator-grade write-up from live data — not from a report writer's notes.

We had a leaked-credential dump matched to a Critical-tier vendor inside two hours of REX seeing it — and NOVA had the vendor's CISO on a call before our team had finished triaging it.

Group CISO

Multinational logistics

Common questions

What teams ask about digital risk.

Dark web monitoring, leaked credentials, and what to do about a vendor’s exposure.

What does dark web monitoring actually monitor?

Sources where stolen data is traded or published: criminal marketplaces and forums, ransomware leak sites, paste sites, closed messaging channels used for trading data, and the large aggregated breach corpora and combolists that circulate publicly. Coverage is inherently partial — no provider sees everything, and claims to the contrary should be treated sceptically. The realistic value is early warning: learning that a vendor's data is being advertised before they announce an incident, which is frequently weeks of notice.

What should we do when a vendor's credentials leak?

Establish the scope before escalating. Determine whether the credentials are for the vendor's own systems or for your tenant, whether they appear in a newly observed breach or in a years-old recycled corpus, and whether any account still exists and is active. Then act on your side first — force reset and check for authentication attempts against your systems from those addresses — and notify the vendor with the specifics. Credential reuse is what makes an old leak dangerous, so "it's from an old breach" is not by itself a reason to close it.

How do you tell a real brand impersonation from a false positive?

Registration alone means little; most typosquatted domains are parked or speculative. The signals that separate a genuine threat are an MX record — indicating the domain is configured to send or receive mail, which is what phishing needs — a TLS certificate issued, content cloned from your real site, and recency of registration relative to any campaign you are seeing. A newly registered lookalike with mail configured and a certificate is an active preparation; the same domain parked with no records is worth watching and little more.

Is this the same as threat intelligence?

Overlapping but narrower. Threat intelligence is broad — actor tracking, tactics and techniques, malware families, indicators of compromise — and is mostly about the adversary. Digital risk protection is organisation-specific and asset-centric: it is about you and your suppliers, and what of yours is exposed. DRP output tends to be directly actionable because each finding names something of yours; threat intelligence usually requires more interpretation before it becomes an action.

See it on your vendors.

Book a 30-minute call and we'll have NOVA, ARIA and REX produce a complete posture report on one of your live vendors inside 24 hours.