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
August 13, 2022
Jared Holt: “Apocalyptic,” violent rhetoric following Mar-a-Lago search is comparable to Jan. 6
Far-Right Extremism, Hybrid Extremism and Nihilistic Violence, Terrorism and Extremism, Threat Analysis and Prevention
August 12, 2022
Plymouth shooting: Understanding mass violence outside of ideological frameworks
Hybrid Extremism and Nihilistic Violence, Terrorism and Extremism, Threat Analysis and Prevention
August 12, 2022
Gunman who tried entering FBI’s Cincinnati office is a suspected ‘extremist’
Hybrid Extremism and Nihilistic Violence, Terrorism and Extremism, Threat Analysis and Prevention
August 11, 2022
FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid sparks a decentralized backlash from the far right
Far-Right Extremism, Targeted Threats, Hate and Abuse, Terrorism and Extremism, Threat Analysis and Prevention
July 8, 2022
Vulnerabilities and red flags are crucial to the intervention of mass shootings
Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference, Hybrid Extremism and Nihilistic Violence, Threat Analysis and Prevention
January 3, 2022
Incel community celebration of Plymouth shooting prompts debate on calls for action
Anti-LGBTQ+, Far-Left Extremism, Terrorism and Extremism, Threat Analysis and Prevention
September 30, 2021
Policy Paper: Mainstreamed Extremism and the Future of Prevention
Hybrid Extremism and Nihilistic Violence, Tech Legislation and Regulation, Terrorism and Extremism, Threat Analysis and Prevention
