CREST-Certified Cyber Threat Intelligence and Dark Web Monitoring for UK Businesses
Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) tailored to your sector’s actual adversaries. Dark web monitoring across underground forums, ransomware leak sites, and credential breach corpora. Sector-aware threat actor profiling. Real-time alerts to your SOC, with expert validation — never raw noise.
Generic feeds are noise. Sector-specific CTI is signal.
Most “threat intelligence” feeds dump thousands of indicators of compromise (IoCs) per day — useful for one in a hundred. Your SOC drowns. Detection rules accumulate. Real threats hide in the noise.
Our CTI is sector-tailored. We profile the threat actors actively targeting your industry (fintech: FIN7, Carbanak, Cobalt Group; healthcare: ransomware-as-a-service operators; public sector: nation-state APTs). We monitor the specific forums, markets, leak sites, and Telegram channels where they operate. We deliver prioritised intelligence — not a firehose. Reports inform your SOC playbooks, your red team scenarios, and your board-level cyber resilience reviews.
CTI COVERAGE AREAS
What We Cover in Threat Intelligence
Twelve specific intelligence areas spanning surface, deep, and dark web — plus tailored sector-specific threat actor profiling.
Threat Actor Profiling
Sector-specific adversary profiling: which APT groups, ransomware affiliates, and financially-motivated criminals target your industry — and their current TTPs.
Dark Web Monitoring
Continuous monitoring of underground forums, marketplaces, and Telegram channels for mentions of your brand, executives, infrastructure, or credentials.
Ransomware Leak Sites
Real-time alerting when your company name (or supply chain partners) appears on ransomware leak sites — DLS, double-extortion announcements, breach posts.
Credential Breach Corpus
Cross-reference of company / employee email addresses against the breach data corpus (BreachCompilation, Collection #1-5, COMB, recent dumps).
Brand Impersonation
Monitoring for typosquat domains, fake social profiles, lookalike SaaS apps, phishing kits targeting your customers / employees.
Supply Chain Intelligence
Threat exposure for your top 50 supply chain partners — early warning of partner breaches that could affect you.
Sector Trend Analysis
Quarterly reports on attack trends in your sector — which TTPs are rising, which threat groups are most active, what regulators expect.
Vulnerability Intelligence
Sector-prioritised CVE intelligence — which newly-disclosed CVEs your specific stack is exposed to, with patch-priority guidance.
Geo-Political Risk
Awareness of geopolitical events affecting cyber risk — sanctions, conflict-driven cyber operations, nation-state targeting shifts.
Phishing Campaign Intelligence
Active phishing campaigns targeting your sector — IoCs, lures, infrastructure, and detection signatures pushed to your SOC.
Threat Hunting Hypotheses
Sector-specific threat-hunt hypotheses ready for SIEM ingestion. Validated TTPs translated into Sigma / Splunk / KQL queries.
Executive Briefings
Quarterly board-level briefings on the cyber threat landscape, framed in business risk language, delivered with strategic recommendations.
FOUR-PHASE METHODOLOGY
Threat Intelligence — From Sector Profile to Validated Alert
Continuous monitoring. Human-validated alerts. Sector-specific delivery cadence. Never noise.
Sector Profiling
Continuous Collection
Analyst Validation
Reporting & Briefing
Verified Accreditations Auditors Accept
Every accreditation independently issued by a recognised UK certification body. Click CREST to verify our membership.
COMPLIANCE READY
Threat Intelligence Mapped to Every Framework
CTI evidence accepted across compliance frameworks where threat awareness is a control requirement.
ISO 27001 (Annex A.5.7)
Threat Intelligence as a defined ISO control (A.5.7 added in 2022). Our briefings provide the evidence ISO auditors require.
FCA / PRA Operational Resilience
Threat Intelligence supports Important Business Service threat assessment and severe-but-plausible scenario development.
NIS2 + DORA
TLPT (threat-led penetration testing) under DORA requires sector-specific CTI input. Our CTI feeds directly into red team scenario design.
SOC 2
CC7.4 incident detection — sector-specific CTI provides the threat-aware detection capabilities SOC 2 auditors expect.
Cyber Essentials
While not directly required by Cyber Essentials, CTI demonstrably exceeds the baseline and supports overall cyber maturity scoring.
NCSC Threat Reports
Aligned to NCSC threat report taxonomy and UK government threat-actor classifications.
TRANSPARENT PRICING
Transparent Threat Intelligence Pricing
All tiers include sector-specific profiling and analyst-validated alerts. Price varies by monitoring breadth and reporting cadence.
Depends on monitoring scope
Brand monitoring, executive name watch, 50 employee email addresses, monthly digest. 1 sector profile.
- ✓Free retests included
- ✓Free rescheduling
- ✓No cancellation fees
- ✓24-hour scope to active testing
- ✓Live findings to client portal
- ✓Executive + technical report
- ✓60-min walkthrough call
- ✓Letter of attestation
Depends on monitoring scope
Brand + supply chain (top 50), 500 employee emails, weekly digest, real-time critical alerts, quarterly threat-actor report.
- ✓Free retests included
- ✓Free rescheduling
- ✓No cancellation fees
- ✓24-hour scope to active testing
- ✓Live findings to client portal
- ✓Executive + technical report
- ✓60-min walkthrough call
- ✓Letter of attestation
Depends on monitoring scope
Multi-brand, full supply chain monitoring, unlimited employee emails, real-time SOC integration, monthly threat-actor reports, quarterly board briefings.
- ✓Free retests included
- ✓Free rescheduling
- ✓No cancellation fees
- ✓24-hour scope to active testing
- ✓Live findings to client portal
- ✓Executive + technical report
- ✓60-min walkthrough call
- ✓Letter of attestation
Threat Intelligence for Your Sector
Threat actor profiles vary dramatically by sector. We profile the adversaries your industry actually faces.
Fintech
FIN7, Carbanak, Cobalt Group, Lazarus, banking trojan operators, payment-card markets.
SaaS
Initial Access Brokers, B2B SaaS supply-chain attackers, OAuth phishing operators, customer-data resellers.
Healthcare
Ransomware-as-a-service operators (Conti, BlackCat, Royal), patient-data brokers, NHS supply-chain intelligence.
Insurance
Cyber-claim fraud operators, broker phishing campaigns, claims data resellers, FCA-driven threat reporting.
Law
Conveyancing fraud groups, business email compromise (BEC) operators, partner-data targeting.
Public Sector
Nation-state APTs (Russia, China, Iran, North Korea), supply-chain compromise operators, citizen-data brokers.
What You Actually Get
Five things that distinguish our service from automated scans and box-tick competitors.
What You Get From Threat Intelligence
Analyst-Validated, Never Raw Noise
Sector-Tailored, Not Generic Feed
Continuous + Strategic Reporting
UK CREST + IASME + ISO 27001 + ISO 9001
Frequently Asked
What is cyber threat intelligence (CTI)?
Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) is curated, contextualised information about adversaries — who they are, what they target, how they operate, what TTPs they use. Unlike generic threat feeds, CTI is tailored to your sector and prioritised by relevance to your environment.
How does CTI differ from a generic threat feed?
Generic threat feeds dump thousands of IoCs per day with minimal context — your SOC drowns. CTI is curated by analysts: sector-specific, validated, contextualised, and prioritised. You get fewer, better alerts that drive concrete defensive actions.
What does dark web monitoring cover?
Continuous monitoring of underground forums, criminal marketplaces, ransomware leak sites, breach corpora (Collection #1-5, COMB, recent dumps), Telegram cybercrime channels, and surface-web criminal indicators (e.g., Pastebin, GitHub leak posts).
How quickly are alerts delivered?
Critical alerts (e.g., your company on a ransomware leak site, executive credential found in a fresh breach) are delivered within 1-4 hours of analyst validation. Standard alerts within 24 hours. Weekly digest at agreed time. Monthly threat-actor reports on a fixed cadence.
How much does threat intelligence cost in the UK?
Baseline (SMB) £800-£1,500/month. Mid-market (most commonly commissioned) £1,500-£4,000/month. Enterprise £4,000+/month. Annual contracts with monthly billing. Setup fee of £1,500-£3,000 covers sector profiling and asset inventory.
Do you monitor for our brand and executive names?
Yes. We continuously monitor for mentions of your company name, brand variants, registered domains (and typosquats), executive names, and key employee email addresses across surface, deep, and dark web sources.
Can you provide alerts to our SOC tool?
Yes. We can deliver alerts via email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, ServiceNow, Jira, or custom webhook. For enterprise tier, we provide direct integration with your SIEM (Splunk, Sentinel, QRadar, Elastic) via API or syslog.
Does CTI satisfy ISO 27001 Annex A.5.7?
Yes. ISO 27001:2022 introduced A.5.7 (Threat Intelligence) as a new control. Our CTI deliverables — including the documented sector profile, alert workflow, and quarterly briefing — provide the evidence required for ISO 27001 audit.
Do you support DORA TLPT cycles?
Yes. Our CTI feeds directly into TLPT (Threat-Led Penetration Testing) red team scenario design under DORA, TIBER-EU, TIBER-UK, CBEST, and STAR frameworks. We frequently support regulated financial firms as the threat intelligence cell.
What about employees with personal email addresses on breach lists?
We can monitor employee personal emails (with consent, or via aliased corporate addresses) and notify your security team. Useful for executives and high-risk personnel where a personal-account breach can lead to corporate compromise.
Are your CTI analysts UK-based and what certifications do they hold?
All CTI analysts are vetted UK or international engineers. Relevant certifications: CREST CRT, GIAC GCTI, CompTIA CySA+, intelligence-community backgrounds. SC-cleared analysts available for public-sector engagements.
Do you sign NDAs?
Yes. Standard NDA before any sector profile or asset inventory is shared. We operate under a project-specific master agreement that includes data handling, intelligence-sharing protocols, and breach notification clauses.
Book a Threat Intelligence Scoping Call
30 minutes with a CREST-certified CTI analyst. Sector profile and pricing within 24 hours. No sales pipeline.
