Software Package: Data Point Intelligence Guide
You do not audit the code you install. You audit, at best, the top of a dependency tree whose depth...
Supply Chain Security
Code Repository: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A repository is an organisational confession: who builds what, on which infrastructure, with which mistakes, timestamped to the minute. Understanding...
Vessel / Ship: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A ship can change its name, its flag and its owner in a week. The IMO number assigned at build...
Shipping Container: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Eleven characters follow a steel box from a factory yard to a customs hold. The check digit tells you in...
Shipment / Bill of Lading: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A bill of lading names the shipper, the consignee and the goods on the same page. It is the closest...
HS Commodity Code: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Six digits decide the tariff, the licence and the level of scrutiny. Getting them wrong is how controlled goods travel...
Supply Chain Intelligence (SUPPLYINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
You do not have one supply chain. You have a tree of dependencies you have never enumerated, and your real...
Maritime Intelligence (MARINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Ships are legally required to announce themselves. The interesting behaviour is what happens in the minutes after a vessel stops...
Logistics Intelligence (LOGINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Goods leave a paper trail long before they leave the warehouse. Customs declarations, manifests and trade statistics describe physical movement...
Technical Intelligence (TECHINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Every device carries a confession: certification filings, component markings, firmware strings and design choices. Technical intelligence reads that confession to...
Economic Intelligence (ECONINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Economic intelligence is how you see a disruption forming while it is still a shipping rate, an export licence and...
Corporate Intelligence (CORPINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Every company is a legal fiction held together by filings. Corporate intelligence reads those filings to establish who is actually...
Risk Analysis: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The evacuation decision was made three days after the intelligence supported it. Nobody lacked information. What was missing was a...
Aviation Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A cargo operator with three aircraft filed forty-one flights in a month, all into the same two airports, all with...
Healthcare & Drug Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A hospital that cannot access its imaging system diverts ambulances. A falsified antimalarial with no active ingredient kills quietly, one...
Maritime Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The vessel reported itself in the Gulf of Oman. Radar put it alongside a sanctioned tanker four hundred miles away....
Food & Agricultural Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The famine is declared months after the data said it was coming. Vegetation anomaly, staple price, and the first export...
Energy Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Two things tell you a country is in trouble before its ministers do: how fast its gas storage is emptying,...
Supply Chain Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
You do not have one supply chain. You have a graph nobody has ever drawn. The compromise usually enters at...
Economic Espionage: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Industrial espionage rarely looks like a break-in. It looks like a departing researcher, a joint venture with an unusual data...
Forced Labour & Modern Slavery: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Forced labour is rarely announced by chains and locked doors. It shows up as recruitment fees, retained passports, and a...
Mining & Resource Crime: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Gold laundering does not require a refinery that knows it is complicit. It requires one refinery that accepts a dore...
Counterfeiting & IP Crime: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A counterfeit is not a bad copy. It is a parallel supply chain with real factories, freight forwarders, payment processors...
Emerging Technology & AI Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The finance team approved the transfer because they recognised the chief executive on the call. Voice, face and cadence were...
Insider Threat: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The insider case that goes to court usually has a boring first indicator: an access request that was granted because...
