Sonatype’s crown jewel is its database of descriptions of over 1.2 million open source packages. “If that is lost, it could be an existential outcome,” said Wayne Jackson, CEO of the Fulton, Maryland-based software supply chain management company.
To shut down any such leak quickly, Sonatype monitors the web for any indications that its data has been stolen and is being shared on line. That monitoring includes the dark web.
The internet’s dark side isn’t actually all that big. Media accounts frequently overestimate the size of the dark web by lumping in everything that’s not accessible by search engines, and that includes corporate intranets and password-protected sites like online forums, bank websites and email platforms.
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