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Flare helps you search and monitor for any threats, data leaks or security issues that could impact your organizations or your customers. Our systems collect, structure and prioritize data from a variety of sources and show you the results in the web interface. Flare sends email alerts and integrates with third-party platforms.
Let's start with what you see when you log in to Flare.
The first page you see when logging in is your Dashboard. It provides a quick view of information relevant to your current Tenant and Organization.
In Flare, a "Tenant" refers to a specific organization or company within the platform. Each organization has its own Tenant, which contains all the users and shared Identifiers associated with that organization. Tenants in Flare allow for the sharing of Identifiers within the organization and for managing access and permissions.
To create new Tenants in Flare go to the Navigation Bar on the left side of the platform -> Click on the Configure section -> Go to Tenants -> Click on New tenant -> enter the necessary information and click OK.
Identifiers shared inside Tenants have no owners and no restrictions on editing or deletion.
Identifiers are the key elements that help the system determine what to look for in the large amount of data that Flare has access to. You can create Identifiers in Flare based on the assets you want to protect. Identifiers are created and managed from the Identifiers page.
To create an Identifier select Identifiers from the Navigation Bar -> Click the Create Identifier button -> fill in any required fields -> click the Create Identifier button when you’re done.
Identifiers require a few hours to collect data. Once you created an Identifier, wait a few hours to let our system trigger and execute the various searches.
Some queries are sent immediately and can show results quickly, but other services may take up to 12 hours to run, after which you can expect all potential results to be populated in Flare.
There are different types of identifiers. The most-used types are domain, IP Address and Keyword. When you create identifiers, Flare runs specialized queries for that type of information across a wide array of services.
Find out more about Identifiers types, how to create an Identifier and how to manage them in the Identifiers article.
At the top of the Events Feed in the Events section, you'll find the search bar.
This tool searches in Flare's ElasticSearch database. A search does not send requests to third-party services such as GitHub or Google to collect new data.
When you run searches, it runs the search only on currently indexed data. For illicit networks, this includes all the data that we have collected (as described in Data Storage) but for the open web, it includes a very limited dataset.
Find out more about how to use the Advanced Search feature, the “Double Quote” search, search syntax and much more in the Search in Existing Data article.
Your peers and colleagues may also require Flare accounts. To add a user, an Administrator of your organization you can head to the Team page and create a new user with the New Member button, as long as it is permitted within your subscription package.
When adding a member, they will receive an email with instructions to create their account and credentials.
You can then add Members to a group of Identifiers. All participants in a group will have read and write access to the identifiers in the group, will be able to access the group results, and will have the resulting activities displayed on their homepage.
Reports are documented summaries of the organization’s digital footprint and contain: key findings, threat summary, recommendations and actions for threat mitigation and prevention.
To create a Report -> go to the Reports section -> click on New Report’
