Product Focus: Powering the new era of identity exposure management

The cyber threat landscape of 2024 and 2025 proved that perimeter controls, periodic vulnerability scans, and unactioned alerts are no longer enough.

Adversaries now routinely exploit exposed credentials, leaked data, and external risk signals to gain initial access and move to impact in minutes rather than days.

CrowdStrike research has claimed AI‑driven attacks are shortening the time between initial compromise and full intrusion, with breakout times now averaging under 30 minutes. Credential theft and SaaS abuse sit at the centre of many of these campaigns.

For security leaders, this evolution makes external exposure risk from leaked credentials to compromised SaaS sessions a strategic priority, not a peripheral concern.

Traditional tools struggle to see the external attack surface, where attackers gather intelligence, trade stolen credentials and weaponize exposed data. This creates blind spots that allow even minor data exposures to escalate into major breaches.

Recent incidents underscore how pervasive this problem has become. Large credential data sets containing millions of Gmail logins circulated online in 2025, showing how easily valid credentials can be harvested, traded, and reused.

In the healthcare sector, the 2024 Change Healthcare ransomware breach demonstrated the cascading impact a single compromised identity can have.

Attackers reportedly gained access via stolen credentials on an exposed remote access service, triggering the largest healthcare data breach in history, affecting tens of millions and disrupting critical services.

At the same time, campaigns linked to the ShinyHunters group exposed personal and corporate data of tens of millions of victims. Many of these incidents started from seemingly limited leaks that evolved into extortion and deeper network intrusions.

Addressing these identity‑centric risks requires layering complementary capabilities rather than relying on any single control.

Flare is a specialised threat exposure management platform built for this challenge. It combines industry‑leading infostealer and credential monitoring with automated validation and remediation. It continuously monitors clear, deep, and dark web sources for exposed credentials, compromised sessions, stolen session tokens, and leaked data tied to your organisation’s identities.

Flare then automatically validates Entra ID credentials and can trigger actions like forced password resets or session termination in seconds.

What sets Flare apart is its deep exposure dataset and automation. Customers typically go from deployment to first actionable alert in under 30 minutes, see high‑risk exposures from tens of thousands of cybercrime channels, and can cut account takeover risk by more than 50%.

By enriching these findings and correlating them with internal assets and dentity stores, Flare turns noisy exposure data into targeted, high‑value insights. This allows teams focus on the few exposures most likely to lead to real‑world compromise.

In a world where identity is the new perimeter and AI accelerates attacker tradecraft, exposure monitoring is now a strategic imperative.

For CISOs and security leaders looking to reduce external attack surface risk, Flare provides a focused layer of visibility and control that amplifies the value of existing security investments.

To understand how this could enhance your security against current advanced identity threats reach out to Red Helix to discuss.