Capabilities
Intelligence
Threat monitoring, research, open-source intelligence, strategic analysis, tailored briefings, and risk visibility.
Capability overview
What this covers.
Intelligence is the capability that makes the others deliberate. Without it, security decisions are made against assumption; with it, they are made against a described environment.
Protocol's intelligence work is analytical rather than alarmist. The output is a written judgment with reasoning attached, not a feed of everything that could theoretically matter.
This page describes the intelligence service Protocol delivers to a client. Protocol Intelligence is the separate published research program.
Problems addressed
The conditions this work exists for.
01
Monitoring produces volume without judgment.
02
Exposure is discovered after it is exploited.
03
Decisions are made against assumption rather than assessment.
04
Findings arrive without recommended action.
Define the questions worth answering, collect against them, analyze, and deliver a judgment with the reasoning and the confidence attached.
Core service areas
What the work contains.
- 01Threat monitoring and assessment
- 02Open-source research
- 03Digital exposure and footprint analysis
- 04Location, travel, and event risk assessment
- 05Entity and counterparty research
- 06Tailored periodic briefings
- 07Strategic analysis
Relevant audiences
Who this is delivered to.
The same capability is scoped differently for each environment below. What changes is the exposure being addressed, not the discipline.
How the work is held
Assessment establishes the current state, architecture defines the target, integration brings systems and providers onto it, and management keeps it there as the environment changes.
Relevant products
The systems supporting it.
Each product below is in development. The capability is delivered by people and process today, not by software.
Protocol engages intelligence against a described environment rather than a template.
Illustrative project types
Shapes an engagement takes.
Constructed illustrations of typical scopes. No client engagement is described anywhere on this site.
- 01Exposure assessment for a principal and immediate family
- 02Pre-travel location and route assessment
- 03Counterparty research supporting a transaction
- 04Recurring briefings for a family office or executive team
Related intelligence
Related analysis.
Discuss intelligence.
Most engagements begin with a defined-scope assessment: what is being protected, what is in place, and where responsibility actually sits.