Flashpoint for Defense

Access and analyze the most robust range of unique open and difficult-to-access datasets to bolster defense intelligence, force protection, and information operations. Flashpoint is your trusted partner, enabling confident decision-making and intelligence advantage for your critical missions.

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The Flashpoint Difference

Unlock Superior Intelligence with Primary Source Collections

Leverage unique, signal-rich, primary source data from deep and dark web marketplaces, illicit blogs, and chat services to help you understand threat actor TTPs and gain critical insights.

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Monitor Social Media

Access real-time, geolocated Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) to gain situational awareness in physical locations, research persons of interest and illegal activity, and inform operational decisions.

Conduct Secure Virtual Operations

Investigate securely and anonymously using controlled digital personas and isolated environments, ensuring operational security and preventing adversary detection.

Force Multiply Your Team with Analyst Support

Augment your investigative team with Flashpoint’s world-class analysts, delivering timely Requests For Information (RFIs) and specialized intelligence support to accelerate research.

Open-source intelligence is not just an invaluable tool for national security, but also foundational to building a complete and accurate picture. In a world of constantly evolving threats and complex challenges, those who effectively harness the power of publicly available information can see beyond borders, gain critical insights, and proactively safeguard their interests.

Lt. Gen. Scott Howell

Use Cases

Strategic Threat Monitoring and Collection Planning

Access to specialized data feeds and raw data consumption (APIs) for ingestion into existing intelligence systems, enabling the timely correlation of foreign cyber activity and strategic warning indicators.

Operational Security and Force Protection

Real-time, localized intelligence from mainstream chat services and social media to identify and monitor threats to assets, infrastructure, and deployed personnel, including insider threats and extremist mobilization.

Counterterrorism

Access extensive social networks and illicit discussion channels to identify and monitor planning, recruitment tactics, and campaigns.

Foreign Malign Influence and Information Operations

Deep access to foreign-language forums, fringe communities, and state-controlled platforms to detect and analyze narrative campaigns and understand sentiment.

Flashpoint FAQs

What primary data sources does Flashpoint provide that we cannot access via standard open-source tools?

Flashpoint’s core advantage is its unique, primary source collection. We access and curate intelligence from difficult-to-reach digital environments, including private chat services (where criminal and extremist planning occurs), deep and dark web marketplaces and forums, and troves of compromised credentials and other sensitive data. This primary access provides unique, high-fidelity intelligence for time-critical investigations.

How does Flashpoint ensure my investigators’ identities and operations are protected when researching illicit communities?

We offer Managed Attribution, a dedicated solution that provides secure, isolated virtual environments and controlled digital personas. This capability safeguards your investigators’ true identity and location, prevents attribution of activity back to your agency, and allows for secure research and primary source engagement without compromising your mission integrity—crucial protection against adversary detection.

What is the difference between Flashpoint’s intelligence and data aggregated by competitors like Recorded Future or Intel471?

While competitors may aggregate broad data sets, Flashpoint is a recognized leader in primary source collection. We proactively gather and curate high-fidelity, difficult-to-access data from the dark web and illicit communities. This focus on unique, high-signal intelligence, rather than high-volume, low-fidelity aggregation, ensures your team receives the most critical, actionable insights directly relevant to your specific Law Enforcement mission.

Can Flashpoint’s data be used to support physical security and public safety missions, or is it strictly for cybercrime?

Flashpoint provides a holistic view across both digital and physical security. Our Echosec product delivers real-time, geolocated social media data to support open-source intelligence (OSINT) operations and enhance situational awareness. This supports missions like event monitoring, identifying extremist activities, and tracking planning for physical threats, linking digital chatter to real-world threats.

Does Flashpoint provide analyst support, or is it purely a data platform?

Flashpoint offers comprehensive Managed Intelligence and Professional Services to force multiply your team. You can submit Requests for Information (RFIs) directly through the platform to our world-class intelligence analysts, who provide tailored, timely reports on complex investigative subjects, mitigating resource strain and accelerating critical casework.

Can we integrate Flashpoint’s raw data directly into our existing analytic platforms and tools?

Yes. Flashpoint offers robust APIs for consuming our raw, high-fidelity data feeds, including data on compromised credentials, illicit forums, and technical indicators of compromise, allowing for seamless integration into your existing investigative tools, link analysis software, and intelligence systems for advanced, centralized analysis.

How quickly can we get information in a fast-moving, high-stakes investigation?

Flashpoint’s technology is engineered for speed and actionability. We aim to deliver relevant intelligence significantly faster than traditional methods, helping you shrink the time needed to make a critical, informed decision in a rapidly evolving operational scenario.