Flare – Weekly Recap

Flare is a Montreal-based cybersecurity company specializing in threat exposure management, external attack surface monitoring, and dark web–driven threat intelligence, and this weekly summary reviews its latest commercial, product, and research developments. Over the past week, the company highlighted strong momentum in its managed security service provider (MSSP) channel, new research on infostealer-driven identity exposure, milestone scale in protecting personal data, and continued community and thought-leadership initiatives.

Flare reported a 114% year-over-year increase in adoption of its platform among MSSPs, underscoring growing demand for scalable, intelligence-led services. MSSP partners are using Flare’s single-platform approach to integrate external threat visibility – including dark web sources, cybercrime forums, messaging platforms, and open-source intelligence – into multiple customer environments while reducing tooling fragmentation and operational overhead. The company has tailored commercial packages for MSSPs, penetration testing and red-team providers, and consulting firms running project-based engagements, and positions MSSPs as a core pillar of its broader partner ecosystem, which also includes distributors, value-added resellers, consulting firms, and global systems integrators. Flare is further deepening engagement with this channel through participation at the Right of Boom 2026 conference in Las Vegas, signaling sustained emphasis on partner-led growth and recurring revenue expansion.

On the product and data side, Flare disclosed that its platform is now monitoring and helping protect information for more than one billion individuals globally across infostealer logs and dark web marketplaces, highlighting substantial scale in identity exposure coverage. Complementing this, the company released its 2026 State of Enterprise Infostealer Exposure report, analyzing 18.7 million infostealer logs from 2025. Flare found that more than 2.05 million infections involved enterprise SSO or identity provider credentials, with preliminary late-2025 data suggesting enterprise identities are present in roughly 16% of infections and could reach around one in five by the third quarter of 2026 if current trends persist. Despite an overall decline in total infostealer infections, the rising proportion of incidents involving enterprise credentials points to fewer but more impactful breaches, reinforcing the strategic importance of monitoring identity exposure across external data sources.

Flare also continued to invest in community-building and thought leadership. The company promoted a free virtual training session around its Knights of the Stolen Session capture-the-flag challenge, delivered via its Flare Academy initiative, designed to deepen engagement with security professionals and expand familiarity with its tools. In parallel, it spotlighted the growing role of artificial intelligence in offensive cyber operations, including the use of large language models by nation-states and ransomware groups, through a discussion featuring its own experts and Anthropic’s Head of Cyber and National Security Partnerships. These activities support Flare’s positioning at the intersection of AI, threat intelligence, and identity exposure risk.

Taken together, the week’s developments depict a company consolidating its role as a partner-centric, data-rich provider of external threat and identity exposure intelligence, with growing scale, an expanding MSSP ecosystem, and increasing visibility in the cybersecurity community supporting its longer-term commercial prospects in a market where identity-centric and AI-driven threats are intensifying.