2026 WINNER · CYBERSECURITY STARS AWARDS
Flare · Threat Exposure Management Platform
Most Innovative Cyber Threat Intelligence Platform
Overview
Flare operates in the Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) market, focusing on external threats that emerge across the clear and dark web. The platform continuously monitors for these external exposures, identifies which ones could realistically be exploited by attackers, and enables organizations to take action to mitigate them.
This is critical in today's environment because attackers increasingly rely on leaked data, automation, and underground ecosystems to target organizations long before a breach is detected internally. By continuously assessing exposure from an adversary's perspective, Flare helps organizations reduce real-world risk rather than reacting after incidents occur.
Key Capabilities
Flare's cyber threat intelligence platform monitors the dark web, stealer log markets, Telegram channels, dark web forums, marketplaces, paste sites, ransomware leak sites, initial access broker listings, and clear web sources to detect external exposures tied to an organization.
Key capabilities include detecting exposed credentials, secrets, brand threats, stealer log activity, credential dumps, phishing kits, lookalike domains, fraudulent marketplace listings, executive/VIP exposure, and access broker activity. Flare also supports identity exposure management by monitoring enterprise credentials, validating exposed credentials against identity providers, and mapping exposed identities to connected services and sensitive systems.
The platform combines detection, enrichment, AI-driven prioritization, historical context, and automated response in a single workflow. Flare's Threat Flow AI also translates multilingual dark web discussions, correlates findings across sources, and produces actionable intelligence reports.
How we are different
Flare turns cybercrime intelligence into identity detection and remediation in minutes, not days. While competitive solutions often rely on passive monitoring or static threat feeds, Flare closes the loop between detection and action. Through native integrations with Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, SIEM, and SOAR platforms, compromised credentials can be automatically validated and revoked before attackers can use them, even overnight or over a weekend. The gap between detection and action is where breaches happen, and Flare helps security teams close that gap.
Flare's depth of coverage gives customers visibility into attacker-relevant risks that traditional tools often miss. Its dark web intelligence database includes 20B leaked credentials, 1.3M new breached identities weekly, 58k Telegram channels, more than 60 ransomware blogs, 2M threat actor profiles, and data from 160 cybercriminal forums.
Additionally, the Flare research team investigates the cybercrime ecosystem to help customers stay ahead of emerging external threats. The team uncovers timely threat intelligence from ransomware groups, nation state attacks, infostealer logs, data leaks and breaches, identity exposure and more. Most recently, the Flare research team released research with IBM X-Force to uncover a sophisticated North Korean IT Worker scam, have uncovered World Cup ticket and mobile apps scams, and exposed a new Linux backdoor for sale on a Russian cybercrime forum. Their research helps inform customers and the community about pertinent attacks so they can detect, prioritize, and shut down risks as quickly as possible. In this same spirit, last year Flare launched Flare Academy, a free training and Discord community with over 10k members who exchange information and engage in community activities such as CTFs.
The platform is built for the daily workflows of SecOps, CTI, and fraud teams, helping them reduce manual analysis, accelerate investigations, and remediate real exposures faster. In practice, Flare has helped customers reduce breach risk by 25%, avoid $590,000 in breach-related costs, save more than 4,000 hours of manual analyst work in six months, and identify active exposed credentials at high risk of attacker exploitation.
This combination of collection depth, customer-specific context, automated validation, and measurable risk reduction sets Flare apart from legacy threat intelligence tools.
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