Turn global chaos into clarity and empower your organization with the insights needed to remain resilient in the face of uncertainty.
Stay ahead of the dynamic and complex geopolitical events shaping your organization’s business and operational environments. Today, trade disputes and regional instability impact supply chains, regional operations and put employee safety and data protection at risk. Meanwhile, escalating regional conflicts drive nation-state, cybercriminal and hacktivist cyber threats. In this volatile environment it is imperative that you understand global events, leveraging trusted insights to anticipate threats and mitigate them.
Intel 471’s Geopolitical Intelligence empowers you to navigate the threats to your organization that arise from geopolitical developments. We cut through the complexity of global dynamics, offering full spectrum intelligence on countries, threat actors, global events and tension points that you can use to proactively safeguard your business operations. This fully integrated solution empowers you to harness geopolitical insights to drive tactical cyber investigations and enhance your enterprise risk management with clear, actionable intelligence at your fingertips.
Benefit from a continuous stream of expert-crafted intelligence reports and data visualizations. Stay informed about geopolitical activity, rapidly identify patterns and use technical details to protect your organization against the threats they can bring.
With country-specific risk levels across multiple categories and timely reporting, you can align policies and strategy with actionable intelligence and monitor for events that may put employees and assets at risk.
Intel 471 connects the dots between cybercrime, nation-state operations and geopolitical developments. Our expert analysis and consolidated reporting help customers clearly understand these relationships, enabling more informed decision-making and proactive risk management.
Leaders can confidently shape security policies and safeguard supplier, subsidiary and expansion activity using our actionable analysis. Security teams are empowered to proactively manage global risks and enhance triage and response. Frontline defenders gain targeted insights into adversary behavior, indicators of compromise and behavior-based hunt packages, enabling rapid response and investigation to threats, including nation-state actors.
Curated by expert analysts with decades of experience across the geopolitical landscape, Intel 471’s Geopolitical Intelligence reduces the noise using our proprietary SEMPLICE framework that enables effective prioritization of key risks impacting your organization. Seamlessly woven into Intel 471’s new Verity471 platform, geopolitical insights are actioned through various modes including the ability to rapidly remediate third party risk, pivot into behavioral hunt operations, and more.
We organize and analyze global events through our proprietary intelligence framework, SEMPLICE. For Social, Economic, Military, Political, Legal, Information and Technology, Cyber, and Environmental coverage, this structured approach not only ensures the intelligence we collect is effective but also allows granular filtering that enables rapid navigation and pivoting to relevant insight.
Gain instant situational awareness with our interactive picture intelligence summary. Visualize your organization’s threat landscape, identify global hotspots, analyze emerging trends and drill down into detailed reports for rapid, intuitive risk understanding and assessment.
Utilize Intelligence Estimates featuring baseline threat ratings and security assessments for specific countries. Transparent risk ratings across all SEMPLICE categories help inform internal policies, support business growth, and enhance employee safety and third-party risk management.
This solution is fully integrated with the rest of our portfolios: Cyber Threat Intelligence, Cyber Threat Hunting, and Cyber Threat Exposure. You’ll benefit from the insights of our analysts who utilize HUMINT, native-language capabilities and a wealth of experience to draw unparalleled insight into adversary behaviors, technical details and hunt packages. Quickly pivot from geopolitical developments to risk prioritization and drive a proactive response.
Accelerate your workflows with our AI Assistant. Summarize search results, generate tailored outputs for any format or audience, and streamline operationalization of intelligence for faster, more informed decision making.
Receive timely, actionable intelligence tailored to your organization. Leverage the regional and linguistic expertise of our analyst teams for in-depth research on geopolitical environments, conflicts, major events and high-level activity from state-linked cyber threat groups.
Here is a snapshot of the some of the key reports that we deliver in our Geopolitical Intelligence offering and the value they bring to your organization:
| Report | Report Value |
|---|---|
| Significant Activity Report: A daily report assessing a global event or threat. | Structured for actionability. Understand, triage and act with immediacy on a global event. |
| Adversary Profile: A living profile of an actor, threat group or company that conducts or supports cyber attacks on behalf of a country. | A centralized resource for a threat entity, better enabling risk management. When applicable, it includes the technical details needed to bridge strategic intelligence with tactical defense. |
| Tension Point Profile: A living profile of a geopolitical hotspot or threat. | Instantly understand the entirety of a complex event, assess the status of the threat, identify impacted locations and related events to inform mitigation. |
| Intelligence Estimate: A baseline assessment of a country's overall threat and security risk rating across the eight SEMPLICE framework categories. | Use transparent risk ratings to inform internal physical security, travel guidelines, and third-party and business expansion risk assessments. |
SEMPLICE is our custom intelligence framework that we use to analyze and organize our geopolitical data. The name is an acronym of the eight key geopolitical event categories used for analysis: Social, Economic, Military, Political, Legal, Information and Technology, Cyber, and Environmental. This comprehensive structure, adapted from traditional military and governmental intelligence assessment frameworks, provides users multiple benefits, including:
Each SEMPLICE category is a section in our General Intelligence Requirement (GIR) listing, expanding Intel 471’s existing Cyber Underground General Intelligence Requirements Handbook (CU-GIRH) to include this new Geopolitical Intelligence guidance.This additional handbook, the Geopolitical Intelligence General Intelligence Requirements Handbook (GP-GIRH) is available for you to download to help you organize, prioritize, produce and measure geopolitical intelligence by your own intelligence teams.
Download the new GIR handbook to deliver gains across your entire intelligence lifecycle.
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