Searchlight Cyber provides a unified platform for Preemptive Threat Exposure Management that combines attack surface management with dark web intelligence capabilities. Founded in 2017 by Ben Jones and Dr. Gareth Owenson, the company specializes in monitoring threats across the clear, deep, and dark web to help organizations detect and protect against emerging cybercriminal threats. The company's platform offers agentless monitoring of both attack surfaces and extended attack surfaces. Its Attack Surface Management capabilities scan and identify external assets, vulnerabilities, and exposures across an organization's digital footprint. The dark web intelligence products, including DarkIQ and Cerberus, monitor over 850,000 dark web sites and have recaptured over 475 billion data points to identify threats such as credential leaks, data breaches, and criminal activity targeting organizations. Searchlight Cyber serves governments, law enforcement agencies, and enterprises globally. The company has expanded through strategic acquisitions, including Assetnote (attack surface management) and Intangic (cyber risk quantification) in 2025. The Intangic acquisition added cyber risk modeling capabilities that translate external threats into financial impact assessments, helping organizations benchmark their cybersecurity risk and justify security investments. The company's security research team, led by Shubham Shah (top 50 HackerOne bug bounty hunter), conducts vulnerability research and has disclosed critical vulnerabilities in various enterprise software platforms. Searchlight Cyber has also supported law enforcement operations, including the takedown of the BidenCash dark web marketplace. The company received strategic growth investment from Charlesbank Capital Partners in 2024 and operates from headquarters in Portsmouth, UK and Washington, DC.