C5IS reviews Verint Web Intelligence, a popular suite that includes WebAlert for social media monitoring - and Deep Web & Dark Web surveillance. Outside the U.S. and U.K., arguably the world’s leading hotbed for innovative ISS companies is Israel, where many of today’s top players in surveillance and cyber are spawned by the Army’s famous Unit 8200 - including Verint, … [Read more...]
Knowlesys KIS: China’s World Class OSINT Extraction Engine
When the Peoples Republic of China needs to monitor its citizens on social media or other OSINT sources, they don't have to look far - Knowlesys KIS (Knowlesys Intelligence System) is already on the case providing detailed insights that can be gleaned from any website, social media or news engine. The Peoples Liberation Army as well as local government bureaus in China also … [Read more...]
Kofax Deep Web Harvesting: Still Going Strong Under Lexmark
Partnership with Palantir gives Kofax Deep Web Harvesting an important edge: detailed visualization. When Lexmark completed its acquisition of Kofax in May 2015, no public mention was made of Kofax Deep Web Harvesting, an invaluable OSINT tool used by military, government and law enforcement agencies worldwide. But rest assured that Lexmark’s acquired OSINT asset is alive, … [Read more...]
Natural Language Processing: The Power Behind Social Media Monitoring
2016 has seen a flurry of analysis on social media monitoring (SMM) for ISS purposes. Much of it focuses on well-known brands such as In-Q-Tel-backed Geofeedia, used by law enforcement agencies to fathom potential threats and locate their source. Most is only surface deep and overlooks a key driver behind advanced SMM: natural language processing. Too often, analysts proceed … [Read more...]
Long Engagement: Social Media Monitoring and GEOINT
With a user count well past the 1.0 billion mark, social media might seem the fastest growing communications vehicle on record, but hand-in-hand with this explosive growth has come another important “follower” nearly as big -- if far quieter -- the Social Media Monitoring system. Now as universal as social media itself, SMMS has evolved as a major component of OSINT relied on … [Read more...]