How to Monitor Your Company's Threats and Leaks for Free

What Threat Management Is and Why Every Company Needs It

Threat management (or threat monitoring) is the continuous process of observing what happens to your company outside your servers: on the open internet, in forums, in dark web marketplaces, and in leaked databases. Unlike an antivirus or a firewall, which defend the internal perimeter, threat management looks at the external surface — what an attacker can see and collect about you before attempting to break in.

The logic is simple: attacks almost never begin with a direct intrusion. They begin with reconnaissance. The criminal looks for a corporate password already leaked, an exposed email, a forgotten subdomain, or a fake site impersonating your brand. Monitoring this landscape means anticipating the attack while it is still in the preparation phase.

This applies to any company, regardless of size. A leaked employee credential has the same value to an attacker whether the company is a five-person startup or a five-thousand-person corporation. The corporate email address, the domain, and the brand reputation exist and are exposed in the same way — all that changes is how many malicious eyes are watching.

What to Monitor: The Five External Vectors That Matter

Good threat monitoring covers the points where exposure actually happens. There are five main vectors, and all of them can be tracked from the outside, without installing anything on your network.

Leaked credentials: corporate emails and passwords that have appeared in third-party breaches (sites, apps, and services your team members used). A reused password is the most common entry point for intrusions — and most companies only discover the leak after the incident.

Dark web and forum exposure: your company's data being traded, discussed, or listed in criminal environments. Knowing that your name is circulating in these spaces is a valuable early warning.

Domain reputation: whether your domain or IP is on blocklists, associated with spam or malicious activity — something that quietly kills email deliverability and brand trust without anyone noticing.

Typosquatting and brand impersonation: fake domains and sites that mimic yours (decrlpte.com, decripte-suporte.net) to trick customers and employees in phishing scams. Decripte detects this kind of fraud via certificates (Certificate Transparency) and domain variations, going beyond classic typosquatting.

External exposure (attack surface): forgotten subdomains, open services, ports, and fingerprints that show an attacker where they might try to get in.

Why This Is Critical for SMBs and Startups — Not Just Large Enterprises

There is a dangerous myth that threat monitoring is only for banks and multinationals. In practice, the opposite is true: smaller companies are targeted precisely because they assume no one will look at them. Attackers automate reconnaissance at scale — they don't pick victims by size, they pick them by exposed vulnerability.

SMBs and startups tend to have fewer layers of defense, passwords reused across services, and no one dedicated to security. That makes a leaked credential a proportionally greater risk: there is no internal SOC to detect the misuse afterward. The cost of an incident — account takeover, email fraud, a scam using your brand — can be fatal for a small business.

The historical obstacle has always been cost and complexity: threat intelligence tools were expensive and required analysts. That is exactly the barrier a free plan removes. You gain visibility into your real exposure with concrete data, without having to build a team or sign a contract.

How Continuous Monitoring Works — and Why You Can Do It Without a Technical Team

Modern monitoring relies on OSINT (Open Source Intelligence): the collection and correlation of information from public and semi-public sources. Instead of hunting for data manually, a collection engine queries dozens of sources in automatic cycles and delivers the result already organized.

The Decripte Intelligence Center runs an OSINT collector that cross-references sources such as Certificate Transparency (crt.sh) for fake domains, leaked-credential databases (HIBP), email checks, subdomain discovery, service fingerprinting, typosquatting detection, and threat intelligence feeds. The cycle repeats on its own every few hours, so the watch is continuous, not a single snapshot.

The reason you don't need a technical team is precisely this: the complexity lives on the product side. You enter your company domain at sign-up and the system automatically derives what to monitor. Findings arrive interpreted and prioritized — grouped by source, with a severity level — in a dashboard readable by any manager, not just an analyst. You read the risk in plain language, not in logs.

How to Get Started for Free with the Decripte Intelligence Center (DIC)

The DIC is Decripte's free Threat Management plan, available at decripte.com.br/intelligence-center. It was designed to prove value with real data — it is not a demo with fictional numbers. Within a few minutes you see where your company is already exposed.

Onboarding is direct and self-service. You go to decripte.com.br/intelligence-center, create an account with no credit card, enter your corporate email and domain, and the system automatically registers your root domain as a monitoring target. From there, the OSINT collector begins watching for leaked credentials, dark web exposure, domain reputation, and brand impersonation for your company.

In the dashboard you track events, alerts, and your risk surface in near real time, and you can open an investigation from any relevant finding. There is also an on-demand search (Threat Indexer): you type in a domain, IP, or email and receive the results grouped by source, instantly. All of this remains free, with no expiration date on the basic monitoring.

When to Move Up to a Managed Paid Plan

The free plan is enough to see your exposure and react to alerts. But there comes a point when seeing the risk isn't enough — you need someone to handle it end to end. That is when moving up to a managed plan makes sense.

Consider the upgrade when: alert volume demands continuous triage and incident response; you need SOC runtime and forensic investigation led by specialists; the business requires compliance, executive reporting, and governance; or you want enriched intelligence and in-depth analysis of each threat rather than baseline monitoring.

The transition is self-service and free of sales friction: within the dashboard itself, in the plans menu, you choose the paid plan, complete onboarding, and pay via PIX or bank slip — the service is activated automatically, without depending on a salesperson. You only take this step when you feel the real need, and you do so from a foundation where you already know exactly what your risk is.

Passo a passo

1. Go to decripte.com.br/intelligence-center and create your Decripte Intelligence Center account — no credit card and nothing to install.
2. Enter your company's corporate email and domain; the system automatically registers the root domain as a monitoring target.
3. Let the OSINT collector run the first cycle, which scans for leaked credentials, dark web, domain reputation, and brand impersonation with real data.
4. Open the dashboard and review the alerts and risk surface, grouped by source and severity level, in plain language.
5. Use the on-demand search (Threat Indexer) to query a specific domain, IP, or email and get the results instantly.
6. Open an investigation from any relevant finding and, when you need managed response, do the self-service upgrade to a paid plan within the dashboard itself.

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