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Physical Security Insights – Residential Security Surveys
In our previous Insight, the Kiris Group team discussed how to keep yourself safe online. It is equally, or perhaps even more important,...
Jun 28, 20242 min read
Protecting Yourself Online – Why Should You Care?
What is the risk? The quantity of personal information available online and in other publicly accessible sources is constantly...
Dec 20, 20232 min read
Corporate Espionage and Technical Surveillance Counter Measures (TSCM)
Corporate espionage is used to target businesses of all sizes. Companies are becoming increasingly reliant on technology, therefore the...
Jun 13, 20231 min read
SOCMINT - The Benefits And Challenges Of Social Media - Part II
In the same way people may behave differently if they know they are being watched by CCTV or under physical surveillance, online...
Feb 8, 20232 min read
SOCMINT - The Benefits And Challenges Of Social Media - Part I
To an online investigator, social media is a goldmine. As companies such as Google, Meta and Microsoft encourage users to share more to...
Jan 17, 20233 min read
When Seeing (And Hearing) Isn’t Believing: Deep Fakes & Digital Deception – Part II
There have already been instances of malicious actors creating deep fakes to deceive their adversaries, but it is important to note that...
Dec 19, 20223 min read
When Seeing (And Hearing) Isn’t Believing: Deep Fakes & Digital Deception – Part I
Following high-profile controversies around events such as the 2016 US Election, the storming of the Capitol and the Brexit campaign, the...
Nov 9, 20223 min read
Digital Shorts: Online Red-Teaming
To be able to fully embrace the benefits of the kind of technology that crosscuts all our lives, we need to exist online. This creates...
Apr 27, 20221 min read
Digital Shorts: Digital Data Risk
Digital data risk is a persistent threat to both individuals and organisations the world over. As digital presence crosscuts so much of...
Apr 19, 20222 min read
Insights from an Intern: A Digital Security Toolkit
Reflecting on the risks inherent to an increasingly remote workplace, one of our interns shares their thoughts on digital security after...
Oct 27, 20215 min read
Does a picture paint a thousand words?
We set ourselves a challenge; could we explain geolocation using OSINT in 1,000 words? [Spoiler Alert: done in 975 words] Geolocating...
Sep 8, 20214 min read
Active Online Threat Monitoring
The world has changed a lot since the Cold War, but much of what is done in the intelligence domain remains rooted in time-honoured...
Apr 20, 20213 min read
Mythbusting - Physical Surveillance 101
In our previous insight into VPNs and Virtual Machines, we discussed how we use these tools as a baseline in everything we do when it...
Mar 16, 20213 min read
Crisis Management – setting the foundations for decision advantage
Crisis management is a far-reaching term, it conjures up images of individuals and teams besieged by problems – but in reality, it is any...
Mar 5, 20215 min read
Virtual Machines & Virtual Private Networks – Unlocking the mystery of why…
Staying secure online is more important than ever. As entire industries migrated to remote working in order to continue operating...
Feb 15, 20213 min read
Online Monitoring Part 2 – Analytical value and automation...
A popular internet meme depicts quite how far technology has come in a relatively short timeframe. Your smartphone is capable of what it...
Jan 28, 20214 min read
Do military intelligence techniques work in the private sector?
Applying military theories and doctrine to the private sector is nothing new, and is often an effective way to mitigate against the...
Jan 18, 20212 min read
Beyond OSINT - Scraping and more...
As OSINT has evolved over time, one of the most often asked questions is how we move from analysis to investigation, and indeed at the...
Jan 5, 20213 min read
Online Monitoring Part 1– why do we need it & how does it work?
Recent years have been challenging, set against the backdrop of COVID-19 and some fairly seismic geopolitical shifts there have been some...
Dec 22, 20203 min read
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