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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 your home page 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 what is a tenant and how do i create one? 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 what is an identifier and how do i create one? 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 https //app flare systems/#/identifiers 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 minutes to collect data once you created an identifier, wait a few minutes 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 https //docs flare io/configure identifiers searching events flare's database contains close to 20 billion leaked credentials , giving you unparalleled access to one of the largest collections of compromised data in the industry this comprehensive coverage helps you identify potential threats and breaches beyond your organization’s direct footprint, empowering you to take proactive security measures at the top of the https //docs flare io/events feed in the events section, you'll find two sections tenant feed and global search flare continuously monitor for events containing information relevant to the identifiers you create these events can be viewed in the tenant feed within the https //app flare io/#/events of flare on the other tab, global search allows you to query flare's data for events and information not directly associated with your configured tenants or identifiers 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 https //docs flare io/advanced search feature, the “double quote” search, search syntax and much more in the https //docs flare io/search in existing data article collaborate your peers and colleagues may also require flare accounts to add a user, an administrator of your organization you can head to the https //app flare systems/#/team 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 you can find more information in https //docs flare io/roles and permissions create reports 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’ related articles