HumanReconnaissance
In today’s digital age, cyber security is a key priority for CEOs and executive teams. Organisations like CyberQ Group help leaders proactively manage risks, protect sensitive data, and maintain operations while meeting compliance requirements. Their expertise supports secure growth, digital transformation, and the adoption of modern work policies, ensuring resilience against evolving threats.
Mitigating digital threatsin online communities.
New forums and communities that exist on the surface, deep and dark web have granted easy access for individuals to trade data and information often undetected until it’s too late.
Human Reconnaissance (Human Recon) is a unique service that profiles an individual’s digital footprint using open source, deep web and dark web intelligence to identify online behaviour traits that could be a threat to your organisation.
Human Recon experts create digital profiles, revealing social media activity, online interactions, and compromised data. These insights help organisations reduce risks and prevent reputational damage.
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Has one of your critical stakeholders been compromised?
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Are they actively trading your data on the dark web?
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Is your next hire’s behaviour compatible with your organisation’s values and policies?
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Is there a live event and pending threat you are unaware of?
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Human Reconnaissance is that extra level of insight and protection that complements our group cyber strategy. Previously this type of threat was a known unknown; we know we are a target like everyone else but had zero chance of preventing the event. We knew about it during and afterwards once the damage was done. This peace of mind helps us sleep a little easier at night knowing that we have done our due diligence and reduced the insider threat and know more about the people that operate in and around our company.”
CISO, Global Manufacturing Company
Building the business casefor Human Recon.
Organisations are deploying our Human Recon experts to achieve the following:
Identify individuals pursuing criminal or fraudulent activity on the dark web
Identify individuals that may have been compromised online and on social media
Perform due diligence on potential hires and strategic partners
Perform due diligence during merger and acquisition activity.
Explaining a typicalHuman Reconnaissance engagement.
Stage one
Multi-surface collection
Research to identify evidence of activity that requires further investigation
Surface Web
Social media, public information, news and media platforms
Publicly available information available via mainstream browsers.
Deep Web
Information not indexed by search engines that can’t be read by conventional technology
Information on individuals is located here but not easily accessible.
Dark Web
Accessed by anonymised methods (TOR)
Often used for criminal activities.
Stage two
Geography, tangibility & relationships
Identifying patterns of behaviour and relationships between data points, and data validation to eliminate false positives
Information and visual on real-world locations of interest including workplace, home, common meetup spaces
Full evaluation of relationships between the raw data collected in stage one and two
Data and insight validation using multiple sources of information.
Stage three
Reporting
Comprehensive reporting with methods and hypothesis explained with narrative that gives you a clear picture of the situation.
Detailed report with data visualisation and key findings
Debrief session face to face or via conference facilities as required.
Human Recon ensures security by identifying threats through data, analysis, and reporting.
Related case study
How we workwith clients.
IT consulting and managed services
A full red team exercise that tested people, technology and leadership in one engagement.
What the work covered: Spear phishing simulation, penetration testing and a C-suite crisis simulation
The challenge
An award-winning IT consulting and managed services provider wanted to find and fix cyber risks before an attacker did. It needed testing that went beyond a standard vulnerability scan or penetration test and covered human factors as well as technical weaknesses.
The approach
CyberQ ran a multi-part red team exercise: targeted spear phishing simulations to test staff awareness, penetration testing to find technical vulnerabilities, and a C-suite cyber simulation to test how leadership would respond in a crisis.
The result
Findings were prioritised for remediation, the incident response plan was updated with lessons from the tabletop exercise, and the leadership team came away better able to make decisions during a cyber crisis.
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attack angles tested in one exercise: people, technology and leadership
C-suite
crisis simulation alongside the technical testing
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updated incident response plan, built on the exercise
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