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Foresight Intelligence: Risk intelligence for Government and National Security

Supporting Governments and National Security organizations with accessible, shareable security dynamics and outlooks anchored in local insight

The global pandemic and ongoing trade wars have emphasized the need for intelligence analysts to have an accessible, shareable and holistic view of the factors shaping agendas and activity globally – whether by state or non-state actors. Geopolitical uncertainty is front of mind not just for political and security analysts but for decision-makers across departments. Together, they must understand how events will unfold, who the critical actors are, and what the impacts are likely to be in order to set effective and pro-active policy.

The Foresight Intelligence service helps national security teams identify, predict and act on today's complex, interconnected risk drivers. Our solutions provide granular forecasts and location specific risk analysis, alongside geopolitical analysis and scenarios that connect security to wider political, economics and industry dynamics. We leverage structured intelligence methodology alongside cutting-edge innovation for the application of data, analytics and modelling to provide a credible, independent view of the evolving security risk environment.

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Combining the world's richest datasets and the largest network of local experts, award-winning analysts and data scientists, the Foresight Intelligence platform enables intelligence professionals to:

  • Map interdependent developments across geographies, economies, and industries: Spot and evaluate change early to enable pro-active responses with forward-looking view of political, economic, legal, tax, operational and security risks globally.
  • 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 Intelligence delivers relevant indicators of the future security environment to decision makers, highlighting changing dynamics and anticipated impacts early enough for those risks to be addressed.
  • Monitor activity and risk trends: The quantified threat metrics, granular forecasts, and location specific intelligence events provide actionable inputs for strategic monitoring of risk and trends to enable early diplomatic engagement where necessary
  • Communicate effectively internally: Foresight Intelligence’s analysis is concise, actionable, and always forward-looking. It empowers intelligence teams to communicate effectively with other departments and governments using open source data and insight.

What's Included

Country-level risk quantification
Forward-looking country risk scores

Turn qualitative country risk information into quantitative risk analysis and scores. Quantify the risk environment with detailed scores for 8 aggregate and 28 sub-aggregate categories for 211 countries. Includes Government instability, Terrorism, Interstate and Civil war, Protests & riots, Criminal violence, plus others forecasting the country’s Legal, Operational and Economic outlook. Customize weights to the Overall country score to pinpoint risk for those aspects of most direct interest. See all risk categories in a single view or switch between Risk Views with a Security or Strategic focus.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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Location Analytics

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.


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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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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, cyber criminals and hacktivists. Covers their organization, intent, capability and target sets.
  • Valuable compliment to other potential internal and external information sources.
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

Monitor emerging risks to the investment climate and broader operating environment, which potentially impact on the state or sub-state level security environment.

Interrogate key economic data pertinent to your own requirements
  • Conduct your own analysis by leveraging our deep coverage of each economy
  • History and 5-year forecast outlook 
  • Key headline indicators for each economy
  • Data concept coverage includes GDP, output, prices, exchange rates, financial and monetary indicators, government sector, external


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Sovereign risk analysis

Independent credit risk assessments for 206 countries to evaluate the potential for default on sovereign debt.

  • Set country limits for loan, investment portfolio
  • Identify short-term credit opportunities, risks
  • Accuracy – ahead of rating agencies

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
Delivery and workflow tools
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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

 

Application Programming Interface (API) feed

Speak to us about how best to access all your Foresight Intelligence 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.

The S&P Global difference

Methodology and expertise
  • Managed by the largest team in the market – more than 110 dedicated country risk analysts and economists, 200 in-country analysts and 1,000 global sources
  • Rigorous forecasting tools and risk frameworks
  • Consistent record for forecasting accuracy, with analysis by full-time expert economists, political analysts and modelers
  • Inputs gathered from a network of in-country analysts, official sources, local and regional media, social media, and our extensive human source network
Expert Access
  • Direct email access to our team of country analysts and economists for insights on developments that could impact the risk environment
  • Exclusive invitations to regular webinars and events briefing on significant political, violent and economic risk trends
Custom Analysis from our consulting team

Our risk analysts can help frame security risks to your business environment with these additional services:

  • Stakeholder flagging: Identification of key project players/influencers
  • Agenda/pressure analysis: Impact analysis of stakeholder priorities and constituency demands
  • Stakeholder mapping: Early risk alerts and key players to engage
  • Scenario planning: Realistic country situational changes and operational impacts
  • Strategic planning: Stakeholder engagement and risk mitigation needed to sustain business operations

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Experts

Natznet Tesfay

Her areas of specialization include analysis of political developments affecting the offshore energy sector in West Africa, particularly Nigeria; commercial developments, especially in mining, energy, and infrastructure in East Africa; and piracy risks in the Gulf of Aden and Gulf of Guinea. Natznet leads the development of the Africa risk indicator and horizon scanning infrastructure, drawing on a range of methodologies such as geospatial analysis and scenario modelling techniques. She supports business growth across the continent, advising C-level executives on market entry, stakeholder engagement and risk management, and African governments on leveraging their natural resource potential for sustained economic growth. In 2017, Natznet was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.Natznet regularly speaks in major media outlets and at high-level conferences. Previously, at Exclusive Analysis she managed the Africa intelligence team of in-country analysts and sources, as well as Exclusive Analysis's Johannesburg office. She also advised municipal governments on sustainably developing megacities and national governments on the development of free trade zones, foreign policy and the mining sector in East Africa. Natznet degrees include a BA in Government from Harvard University and a MSc in Urbanization and Development from the London School of Economics.

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Carlos Cardenas

Carlos, Director of Latin America Country Risk Analysis and Forecasting, is responsible for the generation of commercially relevant political and violent risks forecasts for a variety of sectors in Latin America, including energy, manufacturing, mining and insurance. He manages a team of Latin American experts, as well as a remote network of contributors based in the region, covering risks such as expropriation, non-payment, contract frustration, civil unrest, business disruption and security-related risks (extortion, kidnapping, crime and terrorism). Carlos has also worked and delivered numerous consulting projects for a variety of clients interested in understanding the role of stakeholders and risks at the project level in Latin America. His areas of expertise include petroleum policy and economics, public governance in natural resource rich countries, international relations, criminal dynamics in Latin America and political economy.He holds a BA in International Studies from Universidad Central de Venezuela (Magna Cum-Laude), an MA in International Political Economy from Birmingham University (distinction) and an LLM in Petroleum Law and Policy (distinction) from Dundee University.

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Deepa Kumar

Her areas of expertise include electoral politics, stakeholder analysis and assessing changing regulatory dynamics in emerging economies. Previously, she was an entrepreneur in New Delhi focused on promoting participatory policymaking by facilitating dialogue between members of parliament and citizens in India. Deepa holds a Master of Public Policy degree from the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. She also holds a First-Class Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, with minors in English literature and Economics from the St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. She is fluent in English and four Indian languages including Hindi, Marathi, Tamil and Gujarati, and a beginner in Arabic.

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