The Flare Story

Flare was created in 2017 by four friends from an engineering university in Montreal, Canada, with one idea in mind, making sure that every company feels protected against cybercrime. At first, the team found compelling data – useful for banks, the sector where it all began for Flare and started prioritizing to make sure that information was insightful but also actionable.

Today, Flare’s mission is to shed light on the external threats all organizations are facing and enable them to take control of their data. Our goal is that every company should have the ability to protect their data, and in effect, protect their brand, employees, customers, and stakeholders.

What does Flare do?

Our SaaS platform dynamically maps an organization’s digital footprint to reduce risk by enabling rapid remediation of external issues that could otherwise be leveraged by malicious actors.

Your Future Role at Flare

The Product Red Teamer is responsible for making the Flare platform and the capabilities built by the engineering team deliver as much value as possible to our customers. With an offensive security mindset, the person will configure, optimize and update our proprietary database of search queries, code scanning patterns and other filters to keep the solution up to date with the threat landscape and enable it to identify the highest risk factors for our customers.

The Product Red Teamer also identifies trends and valuable data sources and helps prioritize the product roadmap. Using a variety of tools, both internal, external and open source, the specialist experiments, prototypes, develops and analyzes tools to help improve Flare Systems’ product in its capabilities of detecting data leaks, targeted threats, non-targeted threats and security issues.

Role and Responsibilities

Identify valuable data sources that could enhance the capabilities of the platform and propose strategies to correlate, contextualize and prioritize data points.
Run experiments and build prototypes - standalone or integrated within the Flare platform - with different Open Source tools to identify and compare the value of different approaches and techniques.
Continuously monitor the quality of the coverage offered by Flare with its current capabilities, and maintain a list of search queries and patterns used by the platform to collect, contextualize and prioritize threats and data leaks.
Stay up to date on the technology landscape in the field, both from free and open source tools and from paid/enterprise platforms.
In collaboration with the research team, conduct Open Source Intelligence collection and analysis activities (i.e., social media, search engines, etc.) to support investigations, assessments, due diligence, and incident response engagements;
In coordination with marketing and sales, support prospects in identifying value in the product.

You'll be a perfect fit if you have:

1-3 years of relevant work in one of the following fields: Threat hunting (IT Security, Incident Response, Security Analyst), Penetration Testing or Red Teaming, Cyber Threat Intelligence or Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
Knowledge of OSINT sources and methods (i.e., social media, deep / dark web search engines, government databases, etc.) and a general understanding of information leakage and their impact on security risk/incidents.
Scripting or software development skills (e.g., Python, shell scripting, REST APIs)
Excellent interpersonal relations and demonstrated ability to work effectively in teams;
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Ability to adapt to changing priorities and work under tight timelines
Experience with or current understanding of Cyber intelligence processes and systems.
Knowledge of a second language is considered an asset;

Preference to Montreal, Toronto or North-Eastern US

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