Security teams are more than familiar with the persistent, high-stakes problem of leaked credentials. When a new batch of compromised credentials show up in the threat feed, your team has to react quickly to determine if the passwords are still an active threat to your organization. This can be a costly, complex, and risky issue, but with Flare Microsoft Entra ID Exposed Credential Verification, your security team can turn exposed credential chaos into clarity.
Compromised Credentials: A Familiar, Costly Threat
Credential-based attacks remain the top initial access vector for attackers. According to the 2025 Verizon DBIR Report, 88% of web application attacks involved stolen credentials. Once leaked, these credentials become fast-moving threats: the median time between ransomware event disclosure and stolen credential detection is just two days (a strong indicator that stealer logs are leveraged by ransomware operators).
Most security teams face three frustrating problems when it comes to leaked credentials:
- Volume: Even small organizations can accumulate thousands of leaked credentials from years of breaches, phishing attempts, and third-party leaks.
- Noise: Not all credentials matter — many are outdated, inactive, or already remediated.
- Manual Work: Today, validating whether a credential is still valid in your environment is often a slow, hands-on process that drains time and focus from your security team.
Research from Forrester estimates the average cost of a single password reset — including lost productivity — at $70. When that is multiplied by hundreds or thousands of credentials, the operational costs can quickly add up.
Operational Frustration for Security Leaders and Practitioners
For a security leader, this issue poses a strategic risk. Every exposed credential is potentially a key to the “front door” of your organization: there’s no easy way to prove to leadership that they’re no longer exploitable. Without clear insight and automation, CISOs and security leaders can’t make efficient, ROI-driven security decisions.
For security practitioners, this can be a daily operational headache.They spend too much time chasing dead ends: checking credentials manually, juggling alerts, and tracking mitigation across disconnected tools. This can shift focus away from real threats.
Traditional leaked credential monitoring is reactive and high-friction. Your security team might spot a credential in a breach dump or dark web forum, but unless your team can instantly verify its relevance to your environment, it can be a guessing game. Many tools may flood your security team’s SOC with alerts but they may not help in confidently answering the important question:
Is this credential still valid in our environment, right now?
From Detection to Action with Microsoft Entra ID
That’s where Flare Microsoft Entra ID Exposed Credential Verification can come in.
Instead of treating every exposed credential as an equal threat, this feature enables your team to check those credentials directly against your Microsoft Entra ID environment. That means you can:
- Rapidly Validate Threats
Reduce noise and prioritize actionable intelligence by verifying credential validity in real time. Irrelevant data gets filtered out, fast — giving you focus where it counts.
The possible validation results are:
- Match: The credential is still valid. Your platform can give you a direct link to your Entra ID environment so you can quickly reset the password and revoke sessions.
- No Match: The credential is no longer valid—no action is needed.
- Error: If the validation fails, your platform can show you a UUID that you can share with the support team for troubleshooting using the Entra ID API response.
- Streamline Remediation
No more pivoting between spreadsheets and admin consoles. With Flare’s integration with your Entra ID environment, your security team can quickly pivot and remediate in just a few clicks cutting mean-time-to-response dramatically.
- Increase Operational Efficiency
Automate credential triage and accelerate threat resolution. Your security team can stop spending hours on manual validation and instead target truly active identity threats.
Want to see how Entra ID Exposed Credential Verification can work for you? Let a Flare CTI Enablement Specialist know during your free trial.
Outcome: Real ROI, Real Risk Reduction
With the Microsoft Entra ID integration into your CTI solution, security leaders get strategic clarity: fast validation, fewer false positives, and measurable reductions in account takeover risk. Security practitioners get time back: no more context switching or manual credential checks. And the organization gets results: lower operational costs, fewer incidents, and a stronger overall security posture.
Credential exposures aren’t going away — but the inefficiencies around them can.
Flare’s Entra ID Exposed Credential Verification
The Flare Threat Exposure Management (TEM) solution empowers organizations to proactively detect, prioritize, and mitigate the types of exposures commonly exploited by threat actors. Our platform automatically scans the clear & dark web and prominent threat actor communities 24/7 to discover unknown events, prioritize risks, and deliver actionable intelligence you can use instantly to improve security.
Flare integrates into your security program in 30 minutes and often replaces several SaaS and open source tools. Want to see how Entra ID Exposed Credential Verification can cut through the noise in your environment? Learn more by signing up for our demo.
