commercial threat mitigation

There is no doubt that in recent years the challenge of mitigating threats to a business has grown exponentially. Chief security officers, chief financial officers, intelligence analysts and research analysts are all faced with a new flood of problems brought on by the changing dynamics of today’s business world.


Challenges to address:

IP theft, protecting brand equity, executive safety, supply chain integrity, threats to physical infrastructure from terrorist groups, M&A, employee and partner due diligence, business continuity…fundamentally, your ability to keep your organization operating at the highest comfort – and profit – level.

Hurdles in meeting those challenges:

Market globalization, unstable political climates, increasingly far-flung supply chains, the mounting reliance on outsourcing and the expanding complexities of regional, national and international economic regulations are just some of the daunting realities facing business today in keeping assets safe and secure.  

 

Intelligence, defense and law enforcement agencies around the world have long considered the WWW “the source of first resort” in collecting data on potential threats to our increasingly interconnected and interdependent societies and economies.  

Leaders in the intelligence community believe that upwards of 95 percent of the information required to do their jobs is available on the Internet – and have, along with Fortune 1000 clients, relied on RiverGlass solutions to help them locate and distill essential web content in a time-critical manner. In fact, RiverGlass was the only software vendor invited to address the membership of DSAC (the Domestic Security Alliance Council) on leveraging the Internet in identifying threats to business continuity and profitability.    

Imagine the edge that companies gain if they put the power of the internet to effective use in their threat mitigation efforts.  

Exactly what makes the Internet such a great resource, however, also makes it a confounding factor in keeping tabs on essential information. The growth of data is far outpacing the ability to locate and make sense of all the information out there that might have an impact – good, bad or disastrous – on an organization.

The numbers are numbing:
As of June 2007, there were 1,173,109,925 Internet users globally – almost 20 percent of the world’s population.

As of April 2007, there were approximately 75 million blogs globally.

It takes the world only 15 minutes to create a quantity of information equivalent to that currently in the Library of Congress.

7 million web pages are added every day to the Internet.

 

In addition to the sheer magnitude and breadth of the Internet, it is disturbing to witness the changing attitudes of Internet users as far as what is appropriate fair game for comment:

30 percent of the office workers in the US have discussed work-related issues via social media.

39 percent of individuals who keep a personnel Internet blog have made harmful comments about their workplace, boss or colleagues.

 

Putting the Power of the Internet in Your Corner 

RiverGlass was founded on its belief in, and commitment to, finding a better way to harness the internet as an information resource. Intelligent, persistent web monitoring and being aware of information from sites outside of traditional sources (like the major news services) is essential to keeping abreast of possible critically important content.

Locating information is just one part of the productivity equation. Equally important is presenting the results to end-users in the manner most useful and convenient. Straightforward visualizations display detected patterns, potentially too complex or too subtle for human detection, within identified entities and topics. Knowledge of these patterns aids businesses in developing sound strategies to identify potentially harmful events.

A team of seasoned intelligence analysts can add further strategic value through in-depth reviews and interpretation of the data collected – daily, weekly or monthly reports spell out the mission-critical risks, and their implications, to your business.  Timely alarms and alerts make sure you are the first to know especially critical information – stay out in front of any emerging events threatening the integrity and viability of your organization.

The challenges will not go away. On the contrary, the Internet will only become more unwieldy, the complexities of doing business more extreme and the vulnerability of your organization to internal and external threats increasingly problematic.  

RiverGlass understands the challenges and the stakes. Our software and services enable you to leverage all data available to you for threat mitigation purposes, whether residing on the WWW as open source information or contained in internal systems. By putting it all together, you take your company’s threat mitigation capabilities and practices to a whole other level.

 

Looking out for your best interests

The RiverGlass Threat Mitigation Solution offers hosted or on-site software deployment, expert professional services as well as a team of seasoned analysts to make sure your needs are met – and expectations exceeded.