How Teams Use Flashpoint PSI

Executive Protection

Proactively investigate risk signals surrounding key personnel. Use deep data 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 across our extensive global 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 data bolstered by AI and Global Translation. Use automated Author Insights to understand actor behavior and reveal connections that other tools miss.

The Intelligence Difference:
Flashpoint vs. The Status Quo

Other Platforms

❌ Information is scattered across dozens of global networks (social media, apps, illicit forums), making it impossible to capture critical intelligence.

❌ Practitioners spend hours manually searching networks, translating foreign language posts, and sifting through irrelevant data, leading to delayed insights.

❌ You know something is happening, but you lack the geographic data to understand its proximity to your assets or executives.

❌ Teams struggle to keep up with the volume of threats, losing the bandwidth to conduct deep analysis or produce reliable threat assessments.

❌ Without proactive monitoring and real-time alerts, teams are forced into a reactive cycle, managing incidents after they impact personnel or assets.

✅ Gain a single point of access to an extensive range of global open-source data, eliminating blind spots and information gaps.

✅ Integrated AI summarizes discussions, provides search recommendations, and translates over 100 languages, condensing hours of manual research into seconds.

✅ Define, search, and monitor custom geographic boundaries, delivering real-time, context-rich data to validate and prioritize threats where your assets or executives are located.

✅ Intuitive functionality, analyst support, and ready access to expert Finished Intelligence serves as a force multiplier, freeing your team for high-impact tasks.

✅ Near real-time data and granular, highly customizable alerts ensure you are aware of threats as they unfold, enabling timely, decisive action based on an extensive range of data sources.

The Intelligence Difference:
Flashpoint vs. The Status Quo

Status Quo

❌ Information is scattered across dozens of global networks (social media, apps, illicit forums), making it impossible to capture critical intelligence.

❌ Practitioners spend hours manually searching networks, translating foreign language posts, and sifting through irrelevant data, leading to delayed insights.

❌ You know something is happening, but you lack the geographic data to understand its proximity to your assets or executives.

❌ Teams struggle to keep up with the volume of threats, losing the bandwidth to conduct deep analysis or produce reliable threat assessments.

❌ Without proactive monitoring and real-time alerts, teams are forced into a reactive cycle, managing incidents after they impact personnel or assets.

✅ Gain a single point of access to an extensive range of global open-source data, eliminating blind spots and information gaps.

✅ Integrated AI summarizes discussions, provides search recommendations, and translates over 100 languages, condensing hours of manual research into seconds.

✅ Define, search, and monitor custom geographic boundaries, delivering real-time, context-rich data to validate and prioritize threats where your assets or executives are located.

✅ Intuitive functionality, analyst support, and ready access to expert Finished Intelligence serves as a force multiplier, freeing your team for high-impact tasks.

✅ Near real-time data and granular, highly customizable alerts ensure you are aware of threats as they unfold, enabling timely, decisive action based on an extensive range of data sources.

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.

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? Accordion Arrow

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? Accordion Arrow

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 the Flashpoint platform? Accordion Arrow

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? Accordion Arrow

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? Accordion Arrow

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

“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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Expand Your Protection

Flashpoint CTI becomes even more powerful when combined with complementary intelligence offerings. Together, these solutions extend visibility beyond cyber threats into fraud, identity, and brand protection, delivering holistic coverage against today’s most critical risks.

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.

Get Started with Flashpoint PSI

Get Started with Flashpoint PSI

Safeguard Your People and Assets: Enhance Situational Awareness with Real-Time, Geo-Enriched OSINT.

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Protective INTELLIGENCE

Global Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT), 24/7 Monitoring and Alerts to Protect People, Places, and Assets

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Increase Situational Awareness

Gain access to critical open-source data, geospatial enrichments, and analytical tools for unmatched visibility into global situations and events. Get instant summaries about breaking events to stay informed and keep people safe.

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Extend Your Team’s Capacity

Leverage integrated AI, automated threat actor insights, and advanced filters to detect and mitigate threats faster. Alleviate the strain on your time, resources, and skills with one-click access to Flashpoint’s expert security intelligence team.

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Accelerate Speed-to-Insight

Get meaningful results within seconds of data appearing online. Monitor and be alerted to events as they unfold, so you can make timely decisions based on changes in the information environment.

Supporting Critical Workflows for Physical Security Teams

Investigations

Harness the power of social media to shine a spotlight on a specific location, topic, and time frame. Leverage author insights to instantly develop an understanding of a post author’s behavior and associations.

Executive Protection

Quickly and easily build search criteria to monitor the chatter related to key personnel during high-profile events, while traveling, or in everyday life. Be alerted to potential dangers so you can swiftly take action.

Event/Crisis Monitoring

Enhance situational awareness with real-time information about incidents near your business or supply chain locations. Leverage integrated AI to rapidly gather insight and context around events, understand what happened, and respond decisively.

Threat Assessment

Gather intelligence on potential threats to your organization, key locations, and personnel. Understand and assess extremist activity, public disruptions, natural disasters, reputation risks, and geopolitical situations to inform effective prioritization.

“The tool allows us to stay up to date with any online threats made against our clients or simply general public discourse surrounding our client’s image. We utilize the saved searches feature which includes various filters to help us find the most threatening chatter and alert ourselves to any issues that may require immediate attention.”


Head of Protective Intelligence
Technology Sector

Additional Flashpoint Offerings for Physical Security Teams

Curated Alerting

Receive relevant tactical analysis and risk assessments from illicit online communities, based on continual monitoring of security intelligence requirements.

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Tailored Reporting Service

Save time and stay informed about risks to your organization with a tailored deliverable highlighting relevant threats.

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Request for Information

Ask Flashpoint intelligence analysts questions and receive answers to address intelligence gaps and optimize team efficiency.

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Brand Protection

Monitor your brand’s critical assets, such as domains, logos, social media, and mobile apps, for abuse and impersonation and quickly mitigate any potential threats.

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