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Strategic risk intelligence: stay ahead in a complex threat landscape

Manage complex risks with teams who have operated against sophisticated threats for decades

We combine elite strategic and operational talent with next-generation AI technology to maximise value and deter risks for our customers.

A unique synthesis of expertise, technology, and proprietary data packages to deliver highly competitive intelligence-as-a-service

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SERVICES TAILORED TO YOUR UNIQUE INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY NEEDS

We integrate strategic planning, proprietary tactics, and advanced risk mitigation methodologies that are adapted to our customers' unique requirements and operating environment.

We offer:

- Risk Intelligence Assessments
- Due Diligence Research
- Special Projects / Activities
- National Security Studies
- Data Acquisition Services
- Private Investigations

- Geopolitical Risk Research                                                                                                                                                                
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BRING OUR ELITE INTELLIGENCE EXPERTISE IN-HOUSE

We combine world-class data science and engineering expertise with subject matter experts who have served throughout allied government, allied military, and the private sector managing sensitive operations and safeguarding highly classified projects.

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INTELLIGENCE AUGMENTED BY AI-DRIVEN CAPABILITIES

Adarga’s powerful AI capabilities, including Adarga Vantage, give our team a unique edge.​ These capabilities allow us to explore the widest possible range of data, to work faster, and to gain a depth and breadth of intelligence that’s only possible through the harnessing of technology. This enables us to deliver a higher quality of outputs than through manual analysis processes alone.

 

Leveraging Adarga's AI tools and proprietary data sets

Underpinning our services capability is access to unique AI tools, designed for intelligence use-cases across the public and private sector.

We have also built one of the largest curated data sets of its kind, offering unique, quantifiable insights into geopolitical risks.

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Case studies 

Foreign Ownership, Control, or Influence (FOCI) Review for a U.S. Agency

The challenge 

  • This U.S agency needed a commercial partner to augment risk assessments and due diligence risk reviews for U.S. businesses.
  • Current approaches that often rely on spreadsheets and questionnaires have proven inadequate for risk detection and monitoring.
  • A new framework was required for this seemingly intractable problem, driven by the need to gain a solid footing on risk identification that would foster resiliency amid ongoing and increasingly complex adversarial manoeuvre.

Our solution 

Adarga created an assessment methodology based on best practices from across public and private sectors, developing a novel risk rating level formulated via:

  • Analysis of open-source intelligence (OSINT) including worldwide news, social media, government publications, court records, and other publicly or commercially available data.
  • Application of natural language processing (NLP) to extrapolate foreign country of concern (FCOC) entanglement with U.S. businesses.
  • Identifying risk factors by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) analytical techniques, highlighting entity and relationship edges / nodes for data-driven mapping of the U.S. businesses risks.

Outcome

  • Illuminated risks associated with Foreign Ownership, Control, or Influence (FOCI) for select U.S. businesses.
  • Laid the foundation to inform and train AI/ML models to improve efficiencies for assessing FOCI risks across both structured and unstructured data at scale.
Emerging Technology Protection Review for a U.S. Agency

The challenge 

  • Help a U.S. agency raise awareness of nation-state threats and help emerging technology sectors protect their human talent and cutting-edge research.
  • Identify and understand convergent points between U.S. endeavours and strategic competitors in the race for technology leadership.
  • Develop an evidence-based research methodology to identify and predict counterintelligence threats to the U.S. technology development ecosystem.

Our solution 

Adarga developed a multi-step approach to identify, anticipate, and prioritise the most likely U.S. tech entities at risk:

  • Analysed U.S. entities receiving U.S. government funding for tech research, as well as top venture capital (VC) investments.
  • Mapped funding sources to ultimate beneficial recipients by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) analytical techniques.
  • Analysed open-source intelligence (OSINT) in English and native languages, including worldwide news, social media, government publications, court records, and other publicly or commercially available data to identify risk indicators.
  • Prioritised risk using counterintelligence (CI) modelling and generated a threat score that was quantified empirically using an algorithm based on indicators mirroring proven USIC methods for assessing CI threats.

Outcome

  • Illuminated the Top 30 U.S. tech entities with high CI threat profiles and provided a prioritised list for security outreach efforts.
  • Provided 30 individual assessment reports on each of the entities, with key findings, link charts, and empirical data.
Intelligence Support for U.S. Agencies

The challenge 

U.S. agencies face a daunting task in disrupting activities of illicit networks who are constantly shifting tactics to stay ahead of law enforcement.

Our solution 

Our team:

  • Developed an innovative approach which sought to identify and predict “operational patterns” of behaviour and vulnerabilities within Transnational Criminal Organisations (TCO).
  • Leveraged artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies to help identify patterns based on published law enforcement data (indictments and judgements) and mining open-source information.
  • Exploited enhanced OSINT collection techniques to identify TCO “playbook” characteristics.

The results 

  • Adarga's TCO “playbook” has produced actionable intelligence for targeting illicit networks.
  • Identification of 30 companies involved in specific illicit networks and their methodologies.

If you’d like to hear more about our intelligence services, get in touch.