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
July 31, 2023
Julia Ebner: Is it too late to stop democracies from being taken over by conspiratorial thinking?
Democratic Integrity, Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference, Hybrid Extremism and Nihilistic Violence, Information Warfare and Online Manipulation, Terrorism and Extremism, Threat Analysis and Prevention
July 30, 2023
Video games, the new backdrop for the Russian information war
Information Warfare and Online Manipulation, Tech Accountability and Safety, Threat Analysis and Prevention
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
