SpyCloud, a leading identity threat protection company, has unveiled key innovations in its portfolio, driving a shift towards holistic identity security. By leveraging its vast collection of darknet data and automated identity analytics, SpyCloud correlates malware, phishing, and breach exposures across both professional and personal identities. This comprehensive approach allows security and fraud prevention teams to uncover hidden identity threats, rapidly remediate exposures, and better safeguard businesses from emerging cyber risks. Read more.
The Need for a Holistic Identity Approach
Traditional identity security solutions have largely focused on securing corporate accounts, leaving organizations vulnerable to cybercriminals exploiting broader identity exposures of employees, consumers, and suppliers. As identity exposures continue to grow, a shift to a more expansive, identity-centric perspective is necessary.
SpyCloud’s research highlights the scope of the problem: the average individual has up to 52 unique usernames or emails and 221 passwords exposed on the darknet. Nearly a quarter of data breaches stem from compromised identity data, with credential attacks costing an average of $4.81 million per breach and taking the longest to detect and contain.
SpyCloud’s Holistic Identity Threat Protection
SpyCloud’s approach extends beyond traditional account-level security, addressing the full spectrum of an individual’s online presence. This innovation empowers security teams to proactively mitigate unseen risks, including darknet exposures of authentication data and personally identifiable information (PII).
“The cybersecurity industry has spent years and billions of dollars securing accounts, but criminals have moved far beyond account-level access,” said Ted Ross, SpyCloud’s CEO and Co-Founder. “The industry’s focus on account security has left a critical gap—bad actors exploit entire digital identities. SpyCloud shifts the dynamic by providing unmatched visibility into the data criminals use, enabling organizations to remediate exposures across users’ online personas.”
Key Innovations Powering SpyCloud’s Identity Security
1. Refined Analytics for Actionable Insights
SpyCloud employs advanced data science to dynamically correlate billions of recaptured darknet data points. By connecting authentication credentials, financial data, and PII, SpyCloud uncovers hidden relationships across seemingly unrelated accounts, continuously and at scale.
2. Automated Remediation in Under 15 Minutes
SpyCloud’s identity security solutions integrate seamlessly with enterprise security ecosystems, including EDR, IdP, SOAR, and SIEM tools. This enables security teams to neutralize threats within 15 minutes of discovery, significantly reducing risk without overburdening resources.
3. Malware Reverse Engineering to Combat Ransomware
SpyCloud specializes in tracking and analyzing malware, particularly infostealers such as Lumma C2, Redline Stealer, and Vidar, which often serve as precursors to ransomware attacks. By providing deep insights into malware-exposed data, SpyCloud helps organizations identify compromised devices and applications, closing security gaps that traditional tools overlook.
4. Accelerated Cybercrime Investigations
SpyCloud’s Investigations solution enhances the efficiency of cyber threat intelligence (CTI) teams, security operations, and law enforcement agencies. With automated identity analytics, SpyCloud accelerates investigations into threat actor attribution, insider risk, and supply chain vulnerabilities, reducing investigation time from days to minutes.
Setting a New Standard for Identity Security
With nearly a decade of experience and the industry’s largest repository of recaptured breach, malware-exfiltrated, and phished data, SpyCloud is uniquely positioned to lead the transition to holistic identity security. By offering a comprehensive view of exposed identity information—from credentials and PII to financial data and digital artifacts SpyCloud redefines identity protection.
“Identity security is paramount in cybersecurity,” said John N. Stewart, SpyCloud Board Member and former Chief Security and Trust Officer at Cisco. “SpyCloud has set the highest standard for proactive defense, giving organizations the ability to detect and act on identity exposures with unprecedented precision.”
Damon Fleury, SpyCloud’s Chief Product Officer, added, “We are making holistic identity protection both practical and achievable. SpyCloud continues to lead in understanding the cybercrime ecosystem, evolving from account takeover prevention to comprehensive identity threat protection. Our mission is to stop identity-based threats once and for all.”
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About SpyCloud
SpyCloud transforms recaptured darknet data to disrupt cybercrime. Its automated identity threat protection solutions leverage advanced analytics to prevent ransomware and account takeover, safeguard employee and consumer accounts, and accelerate cybercrime investigations. SpyCloud’s data also powers leading dark web monitoring and identity theft protection solutions.
With headquarters in Austin, TX, SpyCloud is home to over 200 cybersecurity experts dedicated to protecting businesses and consumers from cybercriminals who exploit stolen identity data. Learn more at SpyCloud.