Help Section

Welcome

How do I register for an account?

If you are a community bank or healthcare organization, please contact us to schedule a demo. If you like what you see, we’ll provide a special link for you to create your account and select the best monitoring plan for you.

Sign up here to learn more about our free monitoring program.

Where is your pricing information?

Please contact us to schedule a demo and learn about our pricing. Pricing starts at $1,950 per year.

We offer affordable plans for community organizations as well as large enterprises needing to monitor 500+ vendors.

Getting Started

Learn how to create your BreachSiren account, select your subscription and configure notifications.

Building Your
Vendor Watchlist

Step 1: Setup your account

Utilize the link provided to you during your demo to register for your account and select your monitoring plan. Please note that SMS and email alerts will be sent to the phone number and email used during signup. This information may be changed later within your account profile.

Step 2: Prep your vendor data

Work with your organization to identify a list of the vendors which may need monitoring. Here are a few software solutions that may have a list of the vendors used by different departments within your company.

  • Enterprise Resource Planning Software (ie. SAP, NetSuite, Oracle)

  • Contracts Management Software (ie. NContracts, Excel)

  • GRC or Vendor Management Software (ie. TRAC, ViClarity)

Learn to import your vendor data, download our template files and build a manual watchlist.

Step 3: Export your vendor data

Your data should include the following columns:

  • Company Name (required)

  • Street Address

  • City

  • State (required)

  • Zip Code (required)

  • Website

Step 4: Upload your data

For Free Community Program clients, login to your Breachsiren account navigate to “Watchlist” and click the “Add companies to watchlist” button to begin building out your watchlist.

If your organization has purchased a paid monitoring plan that includes free watchlist creation, complete the following steps:

  1. Complete our vendor template. Please include all required columns.

  2. Export the list as a CSV file. You may use Excel provided the file is exported as CSV. Find instructions for CSV export on the Microsoft website.

  3. Email your list to info@breachsiren.com.

  4. We will create your watchlist for you within 10-12 business days.

Need Help?

View the rest of this “FAQ” page for helpful videos and tips on searching for historical records, modifying monitoring settings and building out your watchlist.

Helpful Screencasts

HISTORICAL SEARCHING - Need to conduct an investigation of a new or existing vendor? Watch this video to learn more about our federal and state records.

MEDIA REPORTS - Want to know about the latest news media stories about your vendors? Watch this video to learn more about our media reports and notifications.

RANSOMWARE DATA - Identify whether your organization or a vendor has been mentioned by a cyber criminal group in relation to ransomware.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Please see the Our Data page for detailed information about the data provided as a part of our monitoring services.

    We do not track or report on data where there is an active law enforcement investigation or a regulator refuses to provide the data to us due to an internal rule or legal requirement.

  • A data breach or incident confirmed as accurate and submitted by the affected organization or its representative(s) to law enforcement or an industry regulator.

  • An incident in which a data breach may have occurred but has not been confirmed by a verifiable organization. We do not include these in our dataset at this time unless provided to us by our sources. For unverified breach events, we recommend utilizing Google Search Alerts or contracting with a threat intelligence provider.

  • US regulators and state governments only require that certain aspects of a breach be reported as a part of the notification process. We are not able to provide you any classified or non-disclosed information.

  • Yes, we do not share your search logs with third parties. Additionally, all of your data is stored with one of the strongest ciphers available, AES-256 on AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

  • Notifications are sent currently once a day depending on the frequency that we receive data from a source. Frequency can be found on the Sources page upon login. You can also configure to mute your notifications as often as you’d like. If you have a muted a company in your watchlist, you will not receive a notification.

  • For some data security breaches, the entity that sends the breach notice is not the entity that experienced the breach. This may happen, for example, when a web service provider that stores or maintains data on behalf of an online retailer suffers a data security breach, or a victim organization contracts with outside counsel to manage reporting obligations.

  • Occasionally, we run into similar records from our sources. For example, when Company A suffers a breach that impacts citizens of Ohio (500 people) and Florida (1,000 people). We may have a record in our system for both notifications. If Company A were to also notify a federal regulator, we may have a third record for the entire breach of 1,500 records. We do not deduplicate these entries as they can be helpful for understanding if a company has failed to meet their breach notification obligations under the law.