Foresight Security
Risk intelligence for corporate security.
Insights, Data, and Risk Analysis to Enhance Your Corporate Security Function
Business may be global, but security is almost always local. Corporate security managers increasingly face questions that require geo-referenced, risk tagged, actionable intelligence combined with highly proprietary data on their organization’s operational footprint, business cadence and personnel locations around the world.
Designed for pro-active corporate security teams our Foresight Corporate Security service provides granular forecasts and location-specific risk analysis for 211 countries and territories.
Enables Security Professionals to
Understand location-specific threat environments
We assess and score security risk at a granular local level, providing risk scores for every 500m X 500m globally to help our clients understand the threat to them.
Anticipate change
Foresight delivers relevant indicators of the future business environment to decision makers, highlighting changing operational and security environments early enough for those risks to be efficiently managed.
Monitor risk exposures
The quantified threat metrics, granular forecasts, and location specific intelligence events provide actionable inputs for strategic monitoring of risk exposures with the ability to track your specific operational footprint globally.
Communicate effectively internally
Foresight’s analysis is concise, actionable and commercially relevant. It empowers more than 100 corporate security teams to support their business grow profitably and safely.
What's Included
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Country-level Security Risk Quantification
Turn qualitative country risk information into quantitative risk analysis and scores. Covers risks to property from protests and riots, terrorism, interstate and civil war, as well as risks to individuals, cargo and transport, criminal violence and the general business environment.
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Geospatial Risk Quantification
Location-specific political violence risk scores
Scores for civil unrest, terrorism and war risk for every 500m x 500m with presented in an interactive risk heat map. Crime risk now added to reflect evolving Duty of Care parameters and criminal violence / terrorism nuance in certain countries.
Custom geography scores and intelligence
Track risk for the specific geographies that matter to you. Draw custom geographies on the risk map, generate an average location risk score for the defined area and capture security intelligence events and receive alerts when these change.
Route risk scores and intelligence
Understand risk along a transport route to inform planning. Generate an average risk score for a route on the risk map, plus points along the route; capture nearby security intelligence events and receive alerts when these change.
Visualize and risk score your global assets of interest and networks with our custom location intelligence tool. Upload up to 200,000 locations and company-specific data to generate political violence scores for each asset, conduct quick portfolio analytics, add as a layer on our interactive risk map and set up alerts for security incidents occurring within a designated distance from each asset.
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Intelligence Data, Analytics and Monitoring
Intelligence events stream
Curated daily intelligence feed for security-relevant incidents and indicators. Around 4,000 new intelligence events published each week. Database of over 2,000,000 events.
Global Security and Global Attack Trend dashboards
Quickly understand the specific nature of security risks at specific locations and how it has changed over time. Our dashboards enable analytics of security events and leverage enhanced metadata for attack location, type, target types, actor and tactics.
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Insight and Analysis
Detailed country reports, special reports, hot topics and headline analysis
Comprehensive, in-depth country reports as well as daily analysis of key developments, events and trends, and their impact on security and the operating environment in 211 countries and territories.
COVID-19 insights and tools
Our proprietary COVID-19 Vulnerability Index measures the potential disruption of economic, political and operational activity as a result of the virus. It combines country-level measures of vulnerability such as capacities of health system, the demographic structure of society and trade openness with measures of resilience such as effectiveness of the state and fiscal capacity.
Daily headline analysis article from our dedicated life sciences team examines latest infection rates as well as developments with vaccines, treatments and diagnostics. Their weekly R&D tracker highlights the candidates for treatments and vaccines against COVID-19.
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Enhanced Country and Economic Risk Strategic Planning
Subscribe to Foresight Security Premium and monitor emerging risks to the investment climate and broader operating environment
Additional risk scores and analysis help risk teams go beyond security risk impacts to assess risks to the broader business and operating environments
- Detailed political and operational risk scores allow for more precise evaluation of the impacts of policy and regulatory changes
- Risk scores of each country's legal and tax environments can inform project assessments, ongoing evaluation requirements
- Economic risk assessments and scores allow for systematic monitoring of recession, inflation and capital transfer risk levels
Identify the economic drivers of growth in key markets
- More effectively evaluate the impact of economic fluctuations on your business
- Regularly updated analysis of economic developments for each country
- Data concept coverage includes GDP, output, prices, exchange rates, FDI (Foreign direct investment), financial and monetary indicators, external debt
- History and 5-year forecast outlook
Sovereign risk scores help flag credit, non-payments risk
Independent credit risk scores for 206 countries enable clients to assess credit and non-payments risk for key markets easily.
- Track score changes from S&P Global as well as ratings agencies of record (S&P, Moody’s, Fitch) with analysis of score changes by our team of experts
- Use S&P Global’s Consensus score (incorporating S&P Global views plus the Big 3 rating agencies)as a convenient, overall benchmark of risk
Detailed scores and analysis for:
- Solvency ratios
- Liquidity (short-term and medium-term)
- Economic policy impacts
- Political factors
- Extensive database of debt indicators with forecast
- Consistent database back to Q1, 2006
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Custom Security Exposure Dashboard
Subscribe to Foresight Security Premium and examine your overall exposure and relative threats in a single, customized view.
Custom security exposure dashboard
Create a custom selection of scores for your assets and locations of interest, and intelligence event and trends around the locations. Calibrated through an interactive workshop and accessed through Connect.
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Cyber Risk
Compare and quantify the environment for cyber attacks as part of regular security risk evaluations
Our country-risk-centered approach to cyber risk aims to address the country context and high-level picture of cyber risk, to be assessed in the context of other security risks. Entities can be targeted directly or suffer indirect disruption from attacks on a country’s Critical National Infrastructure (CNI)
- Impacts include damage, disruption and theft.
- Global comparisons for 211 countries – both quantitative and qualitative. Based on: 1) the extent to which commercial operations and infrastructure in each country is a likely target for cyberattacks; 2) state capability to prevent & respond effectively to cyberattacks; 3) how dependent a state’s CNI is on systems that are vulnerable to cyberattack; 4) how aware the population is of cyberattack risks and the practice of good ‘digital hygiene.
- Help to foresee potential impacts and allocate resources and budget.
- Threat actor profiles identify common target sets. Includes national-state-aligned cyber actors, cybercriminals and hacktivists. Covers their organization, intent, capability and target sets.
- Valuable compliment to other potential internal and external information sources.
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Delivery and Workflow Tools
Connect®
Access your subscription through our highly customizable web platform- Interactive mapping functionality with multiple security risk layers
- Report builder
- Organized content views for a broader perspective on countries, regions, industries
- Easy-to-use search capability
- 24/7/365 access anywhere, anytime from laptop or mobile device
Security Risk API
Speak to us about how best to access all your Foresight Security risk intelligence through API to ingest into your own or third-party platforms supporting your workflows.
Custom alerts and newsletters
Set up custom alerts that capture the addition of or updates to the content most relevant to you and your operations. Select from a range of curated daily, weekly, monthly and ad-hoc bulletins and newsletters
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