PRODUCT: VIP GUARDIAN

Protect VIPs from Identity-Based Attacks
Without Invading Their Privacy

SpyCloud VIP Guardian extends employee account takeover prevention to key executives’ personal accounts for an added layer of protection, without invading their privacy – giving VIPs visibility into their exposed credentials and empowering them to protect their digital identities.

HOW IT WORKS

Privacy-first identity monitoring for high-value users

VIP Guardian continuously monitors for identity exposures tied to executives’ personal accounts – including credentials compromised in data breaches, malware infections, or successful phishing attacks – and delivers visibility directly to them, not your SOC.

Monitor VIP exposures across personal accounts

Use SpyCloud’s recaptured darknet data to track exposures across multiple email addresses for each VIP, including personal, legacy, and family-linked email addresses that often go unchecked

Empower users with self-guided remediation

Reduce helpdesk involvement by giving VIPs guided dashboard access to take secure, appropriate remediation steps based on the type of exposure

Extend VIP protection without invasion

Enable SSO-based enrollment and privacy-preserving visibility – so your team gets signals and your VIPs get ownership, without friction or overreach

The game we play here is high stakes. With a given client, we’re promising that the information we give them about an identity exposure is trustworthy and actionable. We need to be able to tell them where we found it, how we found it, and feel confident that we’re the first ones to bring it to them. That’s why we rely on SpyCloud.
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EXPLORE OTHER PRODUCTS

Protect more than your VIPs

Extend identity threat protection across your workforce with early exposure detection and automated remediation.

Employee ATO Prevention

Detect and remediate credential exposures before they lead to account compromise

Malware Exposure Remediation

Detect employees infected with credential-stealing malware to uncover exposures you’d otherwise miss

Identity Guardians

Monitor and remediate credential exposures across your directory environment

Next steps

Protect your most targeted people – before they become your biggest risk. 
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SpyCloud VIP Guardian FAQs

No. Employers cannot see the personal email addresses you decide to monitor or any data breach information that may be tied to them. Your employer can see which corporate email addresses have registered SpyCloud VIP Guardian accounts. This helps your organization control their subscription and make sure that accounts are limited to current employees.

If your password has appeared in the SpyCloud database, it has become available to cybercriminals. Most likely, your password was made public via a data breach. Be sure to change the password anywhere you’ve used a variation of it, and never use that password again.

Sites that collect login information typically store passwords in a hashed format, meaning that if someone breaches their database, the attacker won’t have a ready-to-use list of passwords. To use the passwords, the criminal needs to crack them. Short passwords are usually very easy to crack. Long, complex passwords are harder to crack. A strong password won’t help you if a site stores their passwords in plaintext, but it can make things a bit more challenging for cybercriminals if the passwords are hashed.

The following best practices can help you minimize the danger posed by a compromised password.

  1. Change your password (everywhere you’ve used it). Make sure none of your accounts are still protected by the exposed password, including the site that was compromised and anywhere else you’ve used it. You should also change all variations of the compromised password on any of your accounts and never use it again. It’s not enough to monitor other accounts using the same or a similar password for suspicious activity. If an attacker has even a few characters of your password, they can crack the entire password.
  2. Inform all relevant parties as soon as possible. For example, if an account related to work was compromised, or if the password is being used to protect any other internal systems, report it. If anyone else has access to the account, such as in the case of a shared family login, make sure that they’re not using the exposed passwords anywhere else. If so, ask them to change passwords for those accounts to something long and strong.
  3. Enable two factor authentication (2FA) for all of your accounts where 2FA is an option. While this step is not a failsafe against account takeover and doesn’t replace the need for unique passwords, it does substantially increase your account security.
  4. Implement a password manager so all of your passwords are unique and easily managed. Most password managers auto-generate complex passwords. Any password that is easy to remember is also easy to guess. This is why the strongest passwords are automatically generated. After a breach of your organization, make sure that use of a password manager is mandated for all employees.

SpyCloud VIP Guardian is intended for executives, board members, and high-privilege users whose personal exposures can put the entire organization at risk. Intended usage of VIP Guardian is not for children.

Exposure data is only visible to the VIP through their private portal; your security team receives only remediation signals and risk insights.

Yes. SpyCloud VIP Guardian supports multiple monitored email addresses per VIP, including past aliases and family-tied accounts.

VIP Guardian uses SSO to simplify and secure user enrollment with minimal friction.

SpyCloud uses recaptured breach, malware and phished data from criminal sources, offering earlier and more comprehensive exposure visibility than traditional tools.