Driving back from a meeting today I was listening to BBC Radio 4’s Natural Histories program, this episode. The fascinating subject was ravens, including one actually talking. No kidding. But there was also a link to the world of intelligence. One aspect of the story was intriguing in particular and that is the role of two ravens in Norse history…
IMSL is pleased to announce that its market leading UAS (drones) threat, intelligence and analysis service, IMSL IKARUS (Intelligence Knowledge & Analysis Relating to UAS Security) is now fully live following a successful period of testing with key UK Government departments. A leading innovator in the collection and use of Open Source information and the analysis of global threats,…
IMSL and CHC Global are pleased to announce the formalisation of a partnership to build synergies for services to the Insurance Industry. For some time IMSL has been building the services and capabilities on offer to this sector, in terms of data, analysis and subject matter expertise, and with further growth in this sector now…
Ariel Re have renewed their contract for IMSL’s terrorism services after a ground breaking first year. Ariel have procured StormCloud, the IMSL data service, with the Terrorism, SR&CC and War On Land packages, the StormCloud global target services, and support in geospatial intelligence. Dr Raveem Ismail, Specialty Underwriter at Ariel Re, also a founding editor…
G-Cloud, the UK Government initiative to encourage adoption of cloud services across the public sector, provides an easy procurement route for IMSL services through the Government’s Digital Marketplace framework. IMSL provides many of its services on G-Cloud from specific Palantir training to general intelligence best practices. You can view IMSL’s G-Cloud offerings on our service…
A video has been released of a small Hezbollah COTS drone deploying sub-munitions
Today we are faced with three technologies that are changing the way warfare and crime (against the state or otherwise) can be prosecuted. These technologies are related to Drones, Cyber and IEDs.
IMSL is very proud to announce that Major (Retired) Pete Norton GC is to be honoured by Canterbury Christ Church University by them conferring on him an Honorary Doctorate. Celebrating Pete’s outstanding contribution to public life in the UK, his significant achievements in the military field and his regional association with the county of Kent,…
In my last post I mentioned a Leo Tolstoy “quote”. As you will have worked out, it was completely fake. You may have also worked out that I’m a tiny bit obsessed with fakery and falsehood, or where laziness leads otherwise intelligent people to believe what they read on the internet without critical thought, as…
I’ve blogged before about the importance, and danger, of “narratives” in delivering intelligence analysis to consumers. Human beings absorb narratives instinctively, and indeed I think there is a “narrative bias” – if we are told things that are part of a story, we are more inclined to believe it, and indeed if we are writing…