Case Study: a top North American investment firm prevents a portfolio company breach with Flare

How Flare Helped a Top North American Investment Firm Prevent a Portfolio Company Breach

A top North American investment firm faced the significant challenge of preventing a data breach across its portfolio companies, a threat exemplified by attackers using stolen browser cookies from the dark web to gain unauthorized access to internal systems. The firm turned to Flare and utilized its digital risk protection (DRP) platform to proactively monitor for these external threats.

Flare's solution continuously scanned sources like the Genesis market, where it discovered and alerted the firm to a bot for sale that contained cookies for an internal webmail server. This enabled the client's red team to quickly acquire and neutralize the threat, preventing a potentially catastrophic network intrusion that could have cost millions of dollars. By implementing Flare, the investment firm successfully averted a disaster for one of its portfolio companies, demonstrating the platform's effectiveness in prioritizing critical alerts and accelerating remediation.