Flashpoint in 2023: A Note From Our CEO

Flashpoint's CEO outlines the company's 2023 strategic roadmap, emphasizing the critical role of Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) driven by the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The article highlights a persistent threat landscape including ransomware, malware, insider threats, and social engineering schemes affecting public and private sectors globally. While no specific campaigns are detailed, the post underscores the increasing necessity for actionable intelligence to mitigate holistic cyber and physical risks. Flashpoint plans to enhance its platform with new capabilities like Flashpoint Automate, a ransomware prediction model, and improved user experiences to accelerate threat detection. The announcement signals a shift towards integrated risk management, empowering security teams to leverage intelligence classes for faster mitigation. Organizations are advised to adopt holistic security perspectives and utilize advanced OSINT tools to navigate the expanding threat environment and protect assets against evolving cyber and physical dangers effectively.

Flashpoint CEO Josh Lefkowitz on the steps Flashpoint will be taking to improve, innovate, and inspire in 2023. The post Flashpoint in 2023: A Note From Our CEO appeared first on Flashpoint .

Flashpoint's CEO outlines the company's 2023 strategic roadmap, emphasizing the critical role of Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) driven by the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The article highlights a persistent threat landscape including ransomware, malware, insider threats, and social engineering schemes affecting public and private sectors globally. While no specific campaigns are detailed, the post underscores the increasing necessity for actionable intelligence to mitigate holistic cyber and physical risks. Flashpoint plans to enhance its platform with new capabilities like Flashpoint Automate, a ransomware prediction model, and improved user experiences to accelerate threat detection. The announcement signals a shift towards integrated risk management, empowering security teams to leverage intelligence classes for faster mitigation. Organizations are advised to adopt holistic security perspectives and utilize advanced OSINT tools to navigate the expanding threat environment and protect assets against evolving cyber and physical dangers effectively. Flashpoint CEO Josh Lefkowitz on the steps Flashpoint will be taking to improve, innovate, and inspire in 2023. The post Flashpoint in 2023: A Note From Our CEO appeared first on Flashpoint . Blogs Blog Flashpoint in 2023: A Note From Our CEO How Flashpoint will improve, innovate, and inspire in 2023 SHARE THIS: Josh Lefkowitz January 12, 2023 Table Of Contents Table of Contents Harnessing the OSINT revolution Roadmap 2023 UX improvements Intelligence classes OSINT’s continued impact To a safe and successful 2023 More subscribe to our newsletter Harnessing the OSINT revolution To me, 2022 was the year of OSINT, a time when open-source intelligence (finally) got its time in the sun. This is due in large part to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine— a hybrid war nearing the one-year mark that’s being waged across cyber and physical battlefields. In fact, the war between Russia and Ukraine has become the poster child for how truly essential and impactful OSINT can be, especially during a modern military engagement. To be clear, Ukrainians and organizations active in Ukraine face the most acute risks. But this war is also actively impacting even those who are not physically present in Ukraine, including commercial entities and world governments. For these organizations, gaining reliable, timely, and actionable intelligence is a constant test—one that Flashpoint is helping hundreds of clients tackle daily. OSINT has long been a mission-critical investigatory tool in the security and intelligence community, especially in the public sector, and 2022 proved that out . Malware , insider threats , data breaches, financial and cryptocurrency fraud, violent extremism, social engineering schemes , and ransomware continued to plague organizations of all sizes across the public and private sectors. Strengthened by our 2022 acquisitions of Risk Based Security and Echosec Systems , Flashpoint is now the commercial leader in open-source intelligence, which CIA Deputy Director for Digital Innovation Jennifer Ewbank calls “one of our richest sources of insight and our INT of first resort.” Today, more than 730 customers globally rely on our intelligence, expertise , and technology—leaning on Flashpoint to form a bulwark between their assets and risk. In 2023, Flashpoint will continue to invest in OSINT’s revolutionary effect in order to continue to deliver on our mission . Here’s how. Roadmap 2023 In the last 12 months we’ve delivered new products, features, and functionalities to our clients that make our data and intelligence even more actionable. This includes: Flashpoint Automate to help create automatic workflows A first-of-its-kind ransomware prediction model for vulnerabilities Flashpoint Monitor , a new alerting and analysis capability that helps intel analysts quickly and easily transform open-source data into actionable intelligence Managed Attribution , our virtual machine solution to empower our users to access OSINT securely and anonymously. In 2023, Flashpoint will deliver products that make it even easier for security teams of all sizes and sophistication levels to leverage OSINT, as well as our complete suite of risk intelligence tools, to find and stop threats quickly. To accomplish this, our roadmap is focused, in part, on putting all the right OSINT into a single platform that empowers different security teams to take the right actions tailored to their mission to reduce risk. More than simply supporting a single team, Flashpoint is able to empower teams across organizations to reduce their overall holistic risk across both the cyber and physical domains. Security programs that take holistic perspectives of addressing risk will be best prepared to prevent and mitigate an expanding threat landscape. UX improvements In the year ahead, we’ll be releasing a redesign of our entire user experience with more intuitive navigation, situational awareness to guide teams...