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Verint Web Intelligence for Social, Dark & Deep Web – But WhatsApp?

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...]

From China and Russia – Knowlesys OSINT, NORSI-TRANS Analytics

Next week as ISS World Middle East 2017 opens in Dubai, we examine OSINT Intelligence and Big Data analytics solutions by two prominent players in the fields - China's Knowlesys and Russia's NORSI-TRANS. Both companies are presenting at the ISS World event. Founded in 2004, China's Knowlesys is a giant presence in data mining, Big Data analytics, and OSINT monitoring and … [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...]

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