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
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
October 17, 2022
Trump fans urging for rise in poll watchers ahead of midterms
Democratic Integrity, Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference, Information Warfare and Online Manipulation, Threat Analysis and Prevention
August 31, 2022
COVID conspiracists spark the latest culture war over drag queen readings in the UK
Anti-LGBTQ+, Targeted Threats, Hate and Abuse, Threat Analysis and Prevention
August 22, 2022
Fatwa against novelist Salman Rushdie unites Islamist extremists around the world
Islamist Extremism, Terrorism and Extremism, Threat Analysis and Prevention
August 19, 2022
TikTok is struggling to detect extremist content following Mar-a-Lago search
Targeted Threats, Hate and Abuse, Tech Accountability and Safety, Terrorism and Extremism, Threat Analysis and Prevention
