LOS ALTOS, Calif., Sept. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Constella Intelligence (“Constella”), a leading global Digital Risk Protection and Identity Threat Intelligence company, today announced the launch of Dome. Constella Dome is a modular platform designed to give enterprises a holistic view of the external risks to their people, brands, and assets. The first two modules are Dome Employee Protection and Dome Executive Protection. Constella plans to release additional modules under the Dome platform.

The Dome Employee and Executive Protection modules allow organizations to continuously monitor all employees and executives for external digital risks such as compromised corporate credentials and exposed PII data that can be used for account takeovers, supply chain attacks, ransomware, executive impersonation, and much more.

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Current industry services are designed to monitor a select number of executives or high-profile individuals due to their reliance on manual processes and human oversight, forcing security teams to choose which few executives to monitor. To help customers address the rapid expansion of digital threats that target other employees as well as executives, Constella has brought to market, for the first time, an automated digital risk protection platform, augmented by human intelligence with our world-class analyst team, that can scale to continuously monitor thousands of employees in an organization. Dome can monitor employees in areas such as IT, HR, and finance who have access to critical systems and sensitive data.

Constella Dome Employee and Executive Protection enables organizations to identify and respond faster to digital risks, such as compromised credentials or leaked confidential data, because it continuously monitors thousands of proprietary and public data sources across the social, surface, deep, and dark web. Constella’s data lake contains over 100 billion attributes and 45 billion curated identity records, the largest in the industry, and the Dome platform provides external digital risk visibility across 53 languages and 125 countries.

With Dome, organizations can leverage real-time alerts to quickly identify and block the use of compromised credentials and initiate takedown of personal information before they can be weaponized and lead to account takeovers, impersonations, reputational attacks, and in extreme cases, cyber or physical threats that put an executive’s or employee’s family at risk.

Dome integrates with an organization’s existing IT and security infrastructure such as Active Directory, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)/Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR), and ticketing systems, enabling rapid provisioning and quick remediation. Dome’s automated monitoring, human curation, and customizable threat models that can address a company’s unique policies or requirements ensure that organizations get relevant, high-value insights on a constantly evolving external threat landscape.

“We are excited to take traditional executive protection a step forward by scaling it to protect thousands of employees,” said Kailash Ambwani, CEO of Constella Intelligence. “This platform will allow companies the opportunity to monitor a diversity of digital sources and no longer be forced to choose which executives or employees can be included in digital threat monitoring.”

Dome’s single pane of glass console delivers a holistic view of external risks across the entire enterprise. The Dome platform seamlessly integrates with existing provisioning systems, security tools, and response workflows to improve current systems and processes. Integration with Active Directory ensures fast onboarding and auto-provisioning of employees, executives, and VIPs to monitor. Integration with enterprise platforms, including SIEM and SOAR, will enrich the data in those tools to improve overall threat detection accuracy. ServiceNow integration will speed existing response workflows.

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LOS ALTOS, Calif., July 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Constella Intelligence (“Constella”), a leader in Digital Risk Protection and Identity Threat Intelligence, released their 2021 Identity Breach Report, PII Fuelling the Threat Economy: How Crisis Creates Targeted Vulnerabilities for Individuals, Executives, and Brands. The report evaluates data collected from Constella’s extensive database of over 45 billion archived identity records from data breaches and leakages found on the surface, deep, and dark web in addition to trends identified in deep and dark marketplaces over the past year.

The report found that the COVID-19 pandemic engendered new vulnerabilities in the digital ecosystem for threat actors to exploit, resulting in items like vaccines, fraudulent vaccine certificates, and other COVID-19 related items being sold in dark marketplaces and underground forums. Constella’s research analyzed the value of personally identifiable information (PII), drawing links between the breach economy, PII, and a range of emerging digital threats to executives and brands. Notably, Constella, observed an exorbitant spike in the price of sensitive personal records sold in the deep and dark web, with the price of driver’s licenses, passports, and ID cards increasing significantly from the previous year analyzed – plausibly due to an increased demand for personal records during the pandemic. Constella’s 2021 Identity Breach Report also includes a deep dive into the top companies in the Energy and Telecommunications sectors that appeared in the Fortune Global 500 list, demonstrating increasing exposure and vulnerability of companies in the sector, employees, and executives over the past year.

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“The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us the fragility of our online infrastructure,” said Constella Intelligence CEO, Kailash Ambwani. “As people continue to rely on digital solutions and working from home, both companies and individuals must take new precautions to protect themselves from potential threat actors.”

Key Findings From 2020 Include:

• Nearly 60% of the data breaches analyzed exposed some form of PII and 72% of these breaches included passwords.
• Over 40% of executives from a sample of Fortune 500 companies in Energy and Telecommunications sectors were exposed in a breach over the last 5 years.
• Fortune 500 companies in Energy and Telecommunications have had their corporate domains exposed in approximately 11k breaches/leakages since 2016, and over 40% of these exposures occurred since 2020, indicating worsening security of corporate credentials.
• Out of a sample of 55 Fortune 500 Energy executives, nearly 1/4 have had their passwords exposed.
• Constella observed the sale of vaccine doses—such as AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Moderna, and Sputnik—in multiple dark marketplaces ranging from as little as $8 to as much as nearly $850.
• Crypto-Currency, News, and Healthcare industries saw 120%, 110%, and 51% increases (respectively) in breaches and leakages compared to 2019.
• Compared to the findings in Constella’s 2020 Identity Breach Report, the price of personal records transacted in dark marketplaces increased significantly, including passports (+1,185%), and driver’s licenses (+328%), ID cards (+642%), possibly due to increased demand for false identification records during the pandemic.

“Threat actors continue to find new ways to target individual and company data due to new vulnerabilities created in times of uncertainty and crisis. PII continues to fuel malign activities in the digital ecosystem,” said Alex Romero, COO of Constella Intelligence. “Executives are specifically being targeted for their high-level access within organizations.”

Constella monitors the surface, social, deep, and dark web for identity-related breaches and verifies the authenticity of those data sets. Click here to download the report.

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LOS ALTOS, Calif., June 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Constella Intelligence (“Constella”), a global Digital Risk Protection leader, announced today the Constella Connect Partner Program (CCPP) for MSSPs, MSPs and MDRs. The program enables Constella channel partners to protect customers’ digital assets by monitoring company domains for exposures arising from other companies’ prior breaches. Constella has also announced the launch of its new domain monitoring solution, Constella Domain Monitoring, which enables partners to monitor the dark web for leaked information relating to a domain and corporate employee identities. 
 
Constella has previously leveraged its identity records collected from the dark web to protect individual’s identity through its Intelligence API. This new offering builds on this experience to create a domain monitoring portal which allows partners to search for corporate domains belonging to their customers and identify any exposure relating to the domain(s) on the dark web.  
 
“Constella is excited to partner with leading cybersecurity companies across the globe, including our first MSSP partner, ITC Secure, to help anticipate and defeat digital risks,” said Constella Intelligence CEO Kailash Ambwani. “Our partners will be able to identify compromised credentials quickly to help shut down breaches before major damage can occur or contain damage during an active attack. They will be able to leverage the largest commercial identity data lake to initiate or enhance high value security conversations with their customers.” 

Constella Intelligence Adds Value to Partner Offerings 
Constella Connect is positioned to be part of a comprehensive cybersecurity portfolio enabling partners to bring incremental value to existing solutions. 
 
Program benefits include: 

• Access to newly launched product offering, Constella Domain Monitoring 
• Early access to new digital risk protection offerings 
• Accelerate business growth and stand out in a highly competitive MXP market by adding a powerful and differentiated solution to your portfolio. 

Customer benefits include:  

• Automated deep, dark & surface web monitoring  
• Real-time alerts when your brand or executives are mentioned by threat actors or leaked on the web. 
• Tap into the largest, most accurate database of social and dark web activity. 

With an easy-to-use SaaS-based portal, and little training required, partners can quickly and efficiently monitor multiple domains for multiple companies in one easy-to-use dashboard and immediately see results for what has been breached in order to quickly alert customers and remediate. 

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