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.
May 13, 2026
Building a strategic response to antisemitism in the UK in a changing threat landscape
Amid recent attacks on the Jewish community, this brief calls for a PM-led framework linking digital regulation, prevention & counter-extremism.
Antisemitism, Targeted Threats, Hate and Abuse, Tech Legislation and Regulation, Threat Analysis and Prevention
Further Reading
July 29, 2023
Profile on Julia Ebner for The Times: “My life undercover” infiltrating extremist groups
Targeted Threats, Hate and Abuse, Terrorism and Extremism, Threat Analysis and Prevention
July 21, 2023
‘Sustainability’ festival cancelled after activists expose it as a conspiracy theorist event
Antisemitism, Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference, Hybrid Extremism and Nihilistic Violence, Targeted Threats, Hate and Abuse, Terrorism and Extremism, Threat Analysis and Prevention
June 28, 2023
Telegram, the app of choice for following Yevgeny Prigozhin and Russia’s War in Ukraine
Tech Accountability and Safety, Terrorism and Extremism, Threat Analysis and Prevention
June 9, 2023
A field guide for assessing chances of online-to-offline mobilization
Terrorism and Extremism, Threat Analysis and Prevention, Threat Detection and Analysis
April 3, 2023
Officials react to online chatter of Trump protest ahead of former president’s arraignment in NY
Far-Right Extremism, Terrorism and Extremism, Threat Analysis and Prevention
April 2, 2023
A new take at an old conspiracy: “In this iteration, ‘they’ are going to make you eat bugs”
Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference, Hybrid Extremism and Nihilistic Violence, Information Warfare and Online Manipulation, Threat Analysis and Prevention
March 26, 2023
Patriotic Alternative looks to stir local sentiments of Welsh town against asylum seekers
Far-Right Extremism, Targeted Threats, Hate and Abuse, Terrorism and Extremism, Threat Analysis and Prevention
March 15, 2023
Extremist language choices and false information fuelling dynamic against immigrants in Ireland
Anti-Migrant, Far-Right Extremism, Targeted Threats, Hate and Abuse, Terrorism and Extremism, Threat Analysis and Prevention
February 27, 2023
Conspiracy on 15-minute cities may have worrying, long-term impacts on climate action
Democratic Integrity, Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference, Hybrid Extremism and Nihilistic Violence, Threat Analysis and Prevention
