Human Reconnaissance
The digital era and rapid growth of online communities and social platforms have revolutionised how we communicate and share information but introduced a new level of threat to organisations that didn’t exist just a few years ago.
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 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.
Using a range of unique data points, our Human Reconnaissance experts can provide you with an entire digital profile on an individual including; social media profile, interactions with online forums, personal information posted publicly and compromised account information.
This new level of insight is helping organisations reduce their risk profile and exposure to unplanned costs and reputational damage, by alerting them to behaviours from individuals that may be knowingly or unknowingly compromising the organisation.
Building the business case for Human Reconnaissance
Organisations are deploying our Human Reconnaissance 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 Typical Human
Reconnaissance Engagement
Stage One
Multi Surface Collection
Research to identify evidence of activity that requires
further investigation.
Surface Web
Social media, blogs, government records, business involvement and news 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.
