Somewhere in a breach dump right now, there's a decent chance one of your employees' work passwords is sitting next to their email address. It usually leaked from a site they signed up for years ago and forgot about. For Monterey businesses, we watch for those leaks and tell you when one turns up, so the password gets changed before somebody tries it on your Microsoft 365 login.
When You Need Dark Web Monitoring
If your staff use a work email address to sign up for anything outside the office, you need it. That covers nearly every company from Pacific Grove to Salinas.
The trouble almost always starts somewhere unrelated. A shipping site gets breached, or a ticket vendor, or an old forum. The stolen list gets sold, then resold, then posted for free. Attackers feed those email and password pairs into real login pages and try every one, because people reuse passwords. Yours do too.
You rarely see it coming. Most offices find out when a client calls about a strange invoice that came from a real company mailbox. By then the attacker has usually been reading that mailbox for weeks.
How Our Dark Web Monitoring Works
We register your email domains with a monitoring service that scans breach dumps, paste sites, and criminal marketplaces day and night.
When a match comes in, a technician looks at it before you hear anything. Plenty of hits are old, or belong to someone who left in 2019, and we won't pull you out of a meeting for a decade-old LinkedIn leak. If it's real and recent, you hear who it affects and where it came from. We spell out exactly what was exposed, too. Then we reset the password and confirm that two-step sign-in is switched on for that account.
You can check one address yourself at Have I Been Pwned. We do the same thing for every address on your domain, continuously, and we act on what we find.
Nothing gets installed on your computers.
Dark Web Monitoring Cost in Monterey
The price depends on how many email domains and mailboxes you have. It also depends on whether monitoring runs on its own or as part of a managed IT agreement. We quote it after a short call, as a flat monthly amount, and it only changes if your headcount does. You'll have the number in writing before anything starts.
Why Local Offices Trust Us With Breach Alerts
An alert only helps if somebody acts on it quickly. When a leak has already turned into a hijacked mailbox, it becomes a critical ticket, and critical tickets get a technician within 15 minutes. Our office has been in Monterey since 2008, so the person calling you about a leaked password is someone you can actually meet.
Monitoring tells you about one kind of exposure. It sits inside a wider set of protections we run for Monterey County businesses, and it works best alongside them.
Call (831) 649-5050 and ask about a dark web check for your company's domain.
Frequently Asked Questions
What happens when one of our passwords shows up?
We call or email the person you've named as the contact, explain what leaked, and reset the password with you. If the account was already used by someone else, we treat it as an incident and lock it down first.
Does this cover personal email accounts?
No. We monitor the domains your business owns, like yourcompany.com. Staff can check personal addresses for free on Have I Been Pwned.
Is this the same as identity theft protection?
Not really. Identity theft services watch for your Social Security number and credit activity. This watches for business logins, which are what attackers use to get into company email and bank portals.