Every day, billions of stolen passwords circulate on the dark web, creating a playground for hackers and cybercriminals. If your organization isn’t taking steps to detect compromised credentials, you’re leaving the front door wide open for attackers. Password and credential monitoring are no longer optional—they’re essential. These tools give organizations the power to spot compromised accounts early and stop breaches before they happen.
Let’s face it: a lot of threat intelligence companies pull data from publicly disclosed breaches, which means they’re dealing with sensitive information that’s also available to attackers. This makes privacy protections non-negotiable.
When vetting a service provider, here are a few questions you should ask:
The best providers go beyond the basics. They use encryption, privacy-by-design principles, and data masking to keep sensitive information secure. This way, your data doesn’t become a target—or worse, a weapon—against you or your customers.
Enzoic takes a privacy-first approach with strong encryption and hashing methods to secure credentials. All production data is hosted by AWS and encrypted in motion and at rest using AES-GCM with HMAC-based HKDF, ECDSA signatures, and 256-bit encryption keys, with rotating keys to prevent reuse. For its services, Enzoic employs a k-anonymity system using partial hash comparisons, ensuring no full hashes or client data are stored; submitted data is held temporarily in memory for lookup and erased immediately after.
Credential monitoring isn’t just about answering the question, “Am I compromised?” It’s about doing it accurately and efficiently. Breach notifications alone won’t cut it.
Here’s what to consider when evaluating a solution:
Precision is critical. Alert fatigue is real, and services that rely on basic checks often end up bombarding users with false positives. Look for providers that use advanced analytics to minimize noise and ensure alerts are meaningful.
Credential monitoring is only valuable if it empowers you to take action. A good service doesn’t just give you a dump of data—it helps you solve it with actionable data.
Here’s what you should expect:
Cybersecurity threats evolve every day. Credential monitoring services need to keep up—and so should you. Agility and innovation aren’t just buzzwords; they’re what make or break a provider.
Here’s what to look for:
In today’s landscape, static solutions are useless. You need a partner who’s as proactive and adaptable as the threats you face.
Credential monitoring relies on robust, reliable datasets. A provider with outdated or incomplete data might as well offer no protection at all. That’s why it’s crucial to choose a partner who consistently updates and enhances their breach database while ensuring the highest standards of accuracy and relevance.
Here are the big questions to ask:
Preventing logins with breached credentials is a critical gap in many organizations’ defenses. It is not surprising that most organizations have been compromised by identity attacks since hardly any organization can protect every employee, customer and user on every app with MFA. Unfortunately, MFA is not available with every app and device.
A solid credential monitoring solution like Enzoic bridges that gap, offering organizations the tools they need to detect previously compromised data and then monitor for any new compromise going forward. Compromised credential monitoring is proven to reduce account takeover, but works even better when paired with MFA.
Here’s what Enzoic brings to the table:
Enzoic has been at the forefront of credential monitoring since 2016. By leveraging the same datasets hackers use, Enzoic gives organizations a head start in identifying and mitigating credential-based threats. With a deep focus on research, innovation, and accuracy, Enzoic is helping organizations stay ahead of a constantly shifting cybersecurity landscape.