The perimeter of a financial institution doesn't end at its firewall. Every employee LinkedIn profile, every leaked credential on a dark web forum, every misconfigured cloud storage bucket is a potential attack vector — and most security teams have no visibility into any of it. Digital Shadows was founded in London in 2011 to provide that visibility. Its SearchLight platform monitors open, deep, and dark web sources for digital risks relevant to a specific organisation — leaked data, impersonation attempts, exposed credentials, brand abuse — and surfaces them in a way that security teams can act on. The company served financial institutions, retailers, and enterprises across multiple sectors before being acquired by ReliaQuest in 2022 for $160 million. The acquisition reflected growing demand for integrated threat intelligence as part of broader security operations platforms. In a financial services sector where cyberattacks have become a question of when rather than if, external threat intelligence — knowing what attackers know about you before they use it — is one of the more valuable investments a security team can make. Digital Shadows built a product around that insight before most of the market understood the problem.