Highlights:
- Ignite, unveiled at the RSA 2023 Conference in San Francisco, brings together Flashpoint’s intelligence and an integrated user experience to help organizations streamline workflows.
- The service, according to Flashpoint, enables organizations to save time, money, and resources by gathering and unifying mission-critical intelligence from various classes into a single workspace.
A new intelligence platform called Ignite has been released by business risk intelligence startup Flashpoint, formally known as EJ2 Communications Inc. It accelerates cross-functional risk mitigation and prevention among teams working on cyber threat intelligence, national security, vulnerability management, and physical security.
Ignite, unveiled at the RSA 2023 Conference in San Francisco, brings together Flashpoint’s intelligence and an integrated user experience to help organizations streamline workflows. The service quickly pinpoints pertinent information and minimizes exposure to cyber and physical threats by providing a real-time picture of all relevant risks. Ignite achieves this while minimizing silos that may lead to dissimilar intelligence feeds from numerous specialized partners.
The service, according to Flashpoint, enables organizations to save time, money, and resources by gathering and unifying mission-critical intelligence from various classes into a single workspace. According to the company, Ignites enables users to take decisive action with intelligence from Flashpoint’s team of experts, which boosts operational effectiveness. With an interface designed to bring the most pertinent, team-specific information to the fore, it also addresses the cybersecurity skills shortage.
Other Flashpoint products and services, such as Managed Attribution and Automate, can be integrated with Ignite.
The service’s internal mechanisms use universal search capabilities to locate important conversations and context quickly and logically. With optical character recognition support, it can scan text, video, and images. With “news-style” finished intelligence reports, customized dashboards, and simple access to remote file inclusion, Ignite also supports rules-based alerting.
Chief Product and Engineering Officer at Flashpoint, Patrick Gardner said, “Flashpoint Ignite is built for practitioners, helping them rapidly locate the most relevant team-tailored intelligence from our world-class collections, returning search results in less than a second. It’s also a unifier — a bridge between teams that catalyzes an organization’s ability to fully understand its risk profile, prioritize operations and efficiently tackle daily challenges.”
Future Ignite integrations are also anticipated through the expansion of Flashpoint’s collaboration with Google Cloud on AI innovation, which will support the distribution of generative AI to Flashpoint clients.
The company made headlines when Flashpoint purchased open-source intelligence startup Echosec Systems Ltd. in August for an undisclosed sum. Ignite and the Echosec acquisition aren’t specifically mentioned in Flashpoint, but Insight is likely partially powered by the knowledge acquired during the acquisition.
