Posts Tagged ‘Digital Intelligence’
Corporate Cost-Cutting and Why Security Teams Do Not Need to Compromise on Investigations and Intelligence Solutions
This article was originally featured on IFSEC Insider Every executive’s career will sometimes involve budget cuts that affect their department. Security executives are no strangers to this scenario; about one out of every five security departments experienced budget reductions between 2020 and 2022, according to Security Magazine’s Security Benchmark Report. It’s always a challenging situation.…
Read MoreHow Security Teams Can Leverage Crime Data to Protect Their Assets and Facilities
Whether you’re scouting for a new business location or assessing the safety of an existing one, corporate security professionals focused on keeping facilities, employees, visitors or other assets safe, need a way to better understand the geographical risks surrounding them. With the increase in crime rates being a persistent and endemic problem in the United States,…
Read MoreBalancing Data, Leading By Experience
This article was originally featured in Security Magazine Just over a decade ago, I got my first glimpse into how digital technology would significantly change the security industry. I was working with a Fortune 500 company as an embedded contractor, and my job was to build its protective intelligence program. A seemingly innocuous comment on…
Read MoreA Connected Approach to Integrated Research
Corporate security teams need to quickly uncover important information about potential threats for more complete investigations and actionable insights. Whether about people, businesses, assets, locations, vehicles, or relationships, having the right connected data sources to surface relevant information is critical to making informed decisions. But to make these informed decisions, security teams must go through…
Read MoreOSINT Goes Mainstream: How Security Teams Can Use Open-Source Intelligence To Help Companies Understand Risk
This article was originally featured in Forbes The war in Ukraine may be the most documented conflict in human history. On social media, we can watch in near real time as military units prepare for battle. A few hours later, we see the aftermath. Images are being posted and recirculated by an online community of…
Read MoreProtective Intelligence 201: Mind the Gap Between Strategic and Tactical Intelligence
“The whole world is the arena of our conflict.” – Allen Dulles, The Craft of Intelligence In my experience in both the government and private sector, I’ve found that disaster looms in the gaps between strategic and tactical intelligence, but bridges can be built. Let me explain. The benefit of age is remembering strategic world…
Read MoreOn the Intelligence Autobahn: Riding Toward the Future of Security
This podcast was originally featured on The Great Conversation “It was staring us in the face, but we just couldn’t see it.” This is the conundrum many face when it comes to navigating risk and opportunity. Many things conspire to keep us from seeing and seizing the opportunity. Organizational silos. Fear of change. Cost vs.…
Read MoreLessons Learned from the Nonprofit Approach to Actionable Threat Intelligence
Nonprofit organizations worldwide know that actionable threat intelligence is critical—they are among the top targets for threat actors. Threats to nonprofit organizations aren’t just against the at-risk communities they serve but are also against their facilities, executives, and employees. Three of the country’s largest nonprofit organizations came together at Summit to dive deeper into their…
Read MoreNew Physical Security Tools, Information Overload, And The Big Picture For Corporate Teams
This article was originally featured on SecurityInformed.com Technology continues to transform the physical security industry, helping companies become more aware of the full spectrum of risks their organization faces. Our new survey provides strong evidence that the use of these tools is solving some problems, but their implementation may create new challenges. In our 2022…
Read MoreCharting an Intelligence-Connected Highway to Navigate the Security Road Ahead
A lesson learned from history on how our far-reaching highway system was developed – and its usefulness as a model for transforming security – was the premise of my keynote at our recent Summit. I titled it “The Road Ahead,” a literal title to describe how the Ontic Platform would evolve in the future but…
Read MoreCompanies Are Adopting New Security Tools, but Could Still Miss the Big Picture
We all know that nearly every industry is being transformed by technology. The security and protection sector, which has long lagged behind others, has been gaining traction on this front for years as new tools are created to assist global security teams in identifying and monitoring a variety of threats. The pandemic has accelerated this…
Read MoreHow Corporate Intelligence Teams Help Businesses Manage Risk
This article was originally featured in Harvard Business Review and was written by Paul R. Kolbe and Maria Robson Morrow of the Intelligence Project at the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School. In January 2020, a small team at the global financial services technology company Fiserv began closely watching early warning signs of a…
Read MoreStructuring the Unstructured to Better Evaluate Known and Unknown Threats
Known threats can be easy to identify. They’re the pieces of information already on your radar: Employee-related incident reports, information obtained from open or closed investigations, events being planned, and known persons of interest (POIs). Unknown threats can be much harder to uncover, especially if you don’t know where to look or if you don’t…
Read MoreThe Definitive Guide to Establishing a Modern Protective Intelligence Program
As you build or reevaluate your program, it’s important to consider:
Read MoreFrom Static Reporting to Instantly Evaluating Performance
Gaining Deeper Insights Beyond Social Media Threat Intelligence
When we zoom out and think about corporate threat assessment investigations holistically, it’s clear that social media threat intelligence plays a significant role — but how significant is it? In this article, we’d like to explore the benefits of using social media threat monitoring when conducting investigative research, as well as the pitfalls of relying…
Read More