Threat Analysis and Prevention
Online ecosystems have an enormous impact on the offline world. Our threat analysis and prevention practice involves monitoring online extremist ideologies, hostile states and other bad actors to identify and mitigate potential threats before they escalate into offline violence or criminal behaviour. Our team of digital analysts and subject matter experts can research and track a range of bad actors – including extremist groups, radicalised individuals and hostile states – to detect and prevent violent threats.
ISD offers a unique rapid response capability: we can provide partners with real-time analysis of incidents (from global conflicts to politically motivated attacks) at nearly any hour. This support helps stakeholders swiftly respond to evolving crises and minimise harm on the ground. Please email us at [email protected] if you would like to learn more about this work.
September 17, 2026
25 years after 9/11, al-Qaeda remains perennially online: The group’s digital ecosystem in 2026
Twenty-five years after 9/11, al-Qaeda remains online, adapting its decentralized ecosystem across platforms, messaging services and AI.
Islamist Extremism, Tech Accountability and Safety, Threat Analysis and Prevention
Further Reading
January 29, 2024
‘Saints Culture’
Far-Right Extremism, Hybrid Extremism and Nihilistic Violence, Targeted Threats, Hate and Abuse, Terrorism and Extremism, Threat Analysis and Prevention
October 18, 2023
Violent and graphic content of the Gaza conflict served to minors’ accounts
Recommender Systems and Algorithms, Tech Accountability and Safety, Tech Legislation and Regulation, Threat Analysis and Prevention
September 20, 2023
Erforschung des sich im Wandel begriffenen Online-Ökosystems: Telegram, Discord und Odysee
Gaming and Alternative Platforms, Tech Accountability and Safety, Threat Analysis and Prevention
September 8, 2023
Julia Ebner on UK counter-terrorism strategy: Prisons are in “dire” state, more to do in deradicalisation space
Tech Legislation and Regulation, Terrorism and Extremism, Threat Analysis and Prevention
September 7, 2023
GNET’s conspiracy theories series: Policy challenges, gaps and how to fill them
Tech Legislation and Regulation, Threat Analysis and Prevention
