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Flashpoint Physical Security Intelligence

Flashpoint’s industry-leading physical security intelligence solution provides analysts with the world’s most extensive, geo-enriched OSINT and AI-powered threat intelligence. Teams can accelerate speed-to-insight and gain the unmatched context needed to mitigate threats to people, assets, and operations globally.

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How Teams Use Flashpoint’s Physical Security Intelligence

Executive Protection

Proactively investigate risk signals surrounding key personnel. Use protective intelligence and geo-enrichments to swiftly identify and mitigate threats during travel, events, and daily routines.

Threat Assessment

Arm your team with critical Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) to conduct comprehensive risk assessments. Leverage AI summaries and sentiment analysis across the deepest data sources to report on complex, high-risk conversations and activity.

Event and Location Monitoring

Observe evolving situations with global threat intelligence from numerous data sources. Use geospatial filtering and integrated AI to rapidly surface the most relevant chatter and context needed to inform operational safety and decisive action plans.

Investigations

Illuminate the chatter around incidents using social media intelligence bolstered by AI and Global Translation. Use automated Author Insights to understand actor behavior and reveal connections that other tools miss.

“We needed a tool that could cut through the noise and give us real-time visibility into the online spaces where extremist content proliferates. Echosec does exactly that.”

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What Flashpoint PSI Delivers

Accelerate Research with Integrated AI

Condense hours of OSINT research into seconds with capabilities like Analyze, Assist, and Summary Alerts. The AI provides summaries, search recommendations, and quick answers from timely search results, accelerating your intelligence cycle at every stage.

Improve Situational Awareness with Geospatial Enhancements

View social media content related to physical locations to get a pulse on conversations happening anywhere in the world. Use Location Protection to detect potentially threatening content posted near your location-based assets. Unlike our competitors, you have full control over the geographic boundaries you can search and monitor.

How does Flashpoint PSI compare to ZeroFox?

Flashpoint’s physical threat intelligence provides more timely, impactful, and comprehensive data collection, extending far beyond ZeroFox’s noisy, NVD-dependent approach, and is augmented by superior human expertise for personalized guidance. Learn more →

Enable Persistent Research & Monitoring

Stay vigilant with continuous monitoring of locations and keywords, receiving alerts as soon as relevant content emerges. Echosec stands apart with its highly customizable alerts , allowing you to adjust data sources, locations, keywords, and alert thresholds based on your specific investigation criteria. This precision minimizes noise, ensuring you’re promptly notified of critical, time-sensitive posts demanding further analysis.

What alert types are available with Flashpoint PSI?

Alert types include New Results, Results Summary, Proximity Alerts, AI Summary, and Webhooks, allowing you to tailor notifications to specific needs (e.g., location, keyword, author).

Stay Informed with Expert Finished Intelligence

Access expert intelligence reports, viewable by region or in a news-style feed. Leverage human-vetted intelligence alongside raw data to force-multiply your team’s efforts, improve report quality, and kick-start investigations. Unlike OSINT platforms that only offer automated data, Flashpoint’s multilingual, multidisciplinary intelligence team provides human-vetted insights to complement raw data and enhance your team’s analysis.

What types of intelligence reports are available in Flashpoint PSI?

Report types include daily intelligence on dozens of topics including extremism, malware, vulnerabilities, ransomware, fraud, violent attacks, and social engineering.

Force Multiply Your Team with Analyst Support

Bolster your team’s capabilities by submitting Requests for Information (RFIs) directly within the platform. Access to Flashpoint’s intelligence experts alleviates strain on internal resources and provides tailored reports when you need additional support.

Is analyst support included in Flashpoint’s physical threat intelligence platform?

Yes, the ability to submit requests for information from our analyst team is included in the PSI package to maximize your effectiveness.

Add Context with Author Insights

Quickly develop an understanding of post authors. Extract key information from our data and generate a high-level profile in seconds, significantly reducing manual investigation time and revealing connections that may not be possible otherwise.

What insights are available about post authors?

Author insights include recent activity, memberships in groups or communities, mentions of author, and media.

Eliminate Language Barriers with Global Translation

Translate search queries into over 100 languages in just a few clicks. Global translation enables practitioners of all skill levels to understand posts and monitor situations anywhere in the world. This is especially critical since Echosec provides data from many unique, non-English sources from around the world.

What languages are supported for translation in Flashpoint?

Over 100 languages are supported, including English, Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic, Russian, and French, among others.

Expand Your Protection

Flashpoint’s physical threat intelligence platform becomes even more powerful when combined with complementary intelligence offerings.

Add Flashpoint Managed Attribution for Primary Source Research

Protect your identity while conducting high-risk online investigations. Managed Attribution provides a secure, untraceable digital footprint, allowing your team to safely gather intelligence and engage with online communities without revealing their true identities or compromising your organization’s security.

Add Managed Intelligence to Augment Your Team

Maximize your investment and extend your team’s capabilities with Flashpoint’s Managed Intelligence. Our expert analysts provide bespoke intelligence collection, analysis, and reporting, delivering tailored insights directly to you. This augments your internal resources, ensures comprehensive coverage, and frees your team to focus on critical, high-impact tasks.

Flashpoint Physical Security Intelligence FAQs

  • Echosec is unique because of its focus on geospatial OSINT, user-controlled data access, and integrated AI, allowing practitioners to map online chatter and social media activity to locations or physical assets in real-time. It provides the global data depth and analytical tools that go far beyond simple alerting to deliver complete situational awareness.

  • A cyber-focused platform focuses on digital risks like malware and vulnerabilities. Echosec focuses on physical risks to people, places, and events, such as protests, executive safety, and civil unrest. Flashpoint provides both capabilities, bridging the gap between cyber and physical security.

  • We collect and deliver data from thousands of sources across the surface, deep, and dark web, including: social media, forums, chat services, news sites, and the deep and dark web.

  • Flashpoint PSI is a force multiplier that processes massive volumes of diverse, global data in real-time, instantly mapping, filtering, and using AI to summarize —a task impossible for an analyst to do manually and consistently. It provides a structured, rapid, and scalable approach to deep OSINT research, accelerating the time it takes to get actionable insight.

  • Flashpoint PSI is built for speed. For key sources, the system will deliver an alert the moment something that matches your defined search parameters appears online. This speed is crucial for proactive risk mitigation, allowing your team to act before a situation escalates.

  • PSI saves time by automating 24/7 data collection from vast sources, instantly filtering noise, and using AI to provide immediate summaries and context for threats. Access to expert intelligence reports and analyst support frees up your team to focus on the most pressing tasks.

  • PSI is designed to be manageable for small teams by improving efficiency. For organizations with limited resources, managed intelligence services further augment team capacity.

  • Echosec, the primary technology behind PSI, uses geospatial data to map posts that contain explicit geotags or location metadata, and allows analysts to create digital perimeters around areas of interest to capture the chatter associated with those locations.

  • Flashpoint’s Physical Security Intelligence has been used to thwart two separate attacks on Synagogues. Click here to read about how CSI NY prevented a deadly attack with Flashpoint.

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