Great article as always. I shared it with my MBA students.
One small question though is if laws already limit government investigators (at least to some extent), how should private companies start balancing cybersecurity needs with the risk of crossing legal lines they may not even see?
The tools that make dark web monitoring so effective are often the same ones that can breach laws on unauthorised access or data protection. Private companies lack the legal protections available to government investigators, so they must tread carefully. This could mean building monitoring programs around explicit legal advice, documenting every step of data handling, and avoiding techniques that could be seen as “infiltration”. Security is important, but so is staying on the right side of the law.
Great article as always. I shared it with my MBA students.
One small question though is if laws already limit government investigators (at least to some extent), how should private companies start balancing cybersecurity needs with the risk of crossing legal lines they may not even see?
The tools that make dark web monitoring so effective are often the same ones that can breach laws on unauthorised access or data protection. Private companies lack the legal protections available to government investigators, so they must tread carefully. This could mean building monitoring programs around explicit legal advice, documenting every step of data handling, and avoiding techniques that could be seen as “infiltration”. Security is important, but so is staying on the right side of the law.