![]() ![]() As you can imagine, this is the “underworld of the Internet”. The visits to these websites are encrypted and the use of a VPN hides your identity, providing the much sought-after anonymity. Websites in this layer can only be accessed via a Virtual Private Network (VPN). Examples of this type of sites are a company’s intranet, subscription-based publication, and academic or government databases. ![]() The second layer, “Deep Web” refers to the websites that contain proprietary data that is accessible to a selected group of people. The top layer, “Surface Web”, refers to websites that are accessible via a search engine such as this Chubb website that you are at now. Paul Jackson likened the Internet to an iceberg with three layers of visibility. In a webinar held in partnership with our cyber security partner, Paul Jackson, Kroll’s Asia Pacific Leader on Cyber Risk, shared that the Dark Web is, in fact, a broad term for a collection of sites which may look very much like the sites on the visible web that we are familiar with. ![]() 1 risk to business, brands, operations and financials (source: SonicWall 2018 Cyber Threat Report), one may wonder what is the attacker doing with the data that he now possesses. ![]()
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