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LUMINAR AI co-pilot: Accelerating threat investigations with intelligence that speaks your language
Security teams face more cyber threats, that generate more data, resulting in more pressure than ever before. Analysts spend valuable hours combing through reports and dashboards, trying to piece together fragmented information instead of focusing on what matters most: mitigation and action. Our AI-powered external threat intelligence solution, LUMINAR, gives security leaders the visibility they…
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Maritime Domain Awareness: Countering Hidden Threats
Smuggling networks, state-backed sabotage and other threats make today’s maritime domain a contested space. Governments and coast guards face the challenge of securing vast sea zones and coast lines where criminal activity, conflict and commerce overlap. One of the most striking examples is the rise of “narco subs” operated by cartels. These low-profile fiberglass vessels…
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The Role of Border Intelligence in Combatting Today’s Border Threats
Borders today are flashpoints. Alongside traditional military threats, security forces must confront cross-border crime, irregular migration, sanctions evasion and hybrid warfare tactics. Relying on siloed sensors or single-domain analysis is no longer enough. Vital clues and information must be sifted through and analyzed across communications networks, electromagnetic spectrum, imagery domains and in the field. Modern…
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AI and National Security: Promise and Peril
Artificial Intelligence isn’t just transforming how people work, communicate and seek out information. It’s rapidly revolutionizing the way nations protect themselves. For national security and intelligence agencies, AI offers incredible potential: the ability to analyze information on a scale human analysts simply can’t match and ultimately reach faster insights and make smarter decisions. But there’s…
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Ransomware Will Make Your Healthcare Organization Sick
Ransomware is a major attack vector in healthcare organizations. While most enterprise data is sensitive, healthcare data is exceptionally so. This information is vital to patients’ health and safety; and healthcare organizations are often considered part of a nation’s critical infrastructure. A ransomware attack against these organizations can have severe, even deadly, consequences. What is…
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Public Safety Predictive Analytics: Gartner’s Vision and Cognyte’s Role
In today’s fast-paced world, public safety agencies are turning to technology to stay ahead of threats. The most innovative agencies are transforming public safety by replacing reactive responses with proactive strategies. Predictive analytics, which leverages historical and real-time data, is rapidly reshaping how law enforcement, emergency responders and risk managers anticipate events before they happen…
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The Role of Intelligence in National Security
The preeminent responsibility of every government is the welfare of its citizens. It’s not an easy task—there are many adversaries intent on disrupting the nation’s safety and stability. National security agencies are therefore essential in anticipating and neutralizing these dangers. To stay one step ahead of threats, these organizations gather and analyze intelligence from a…
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How Ransomware Gangs Are Evolving and What It Means for Defenders
Ransomware now operates at a scale which rivals major industries — only its business is crime. What was once the work of isolated hackers has grown into a vast criminal ecosystem, involving supporting actors such as affiliates, data brokers, dark-web forum managers, illicit crypto exchanges and other money-laundering facilitators. Inside the gangs themselves, the work…
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Criminal Gangs Go Digital: The Challenge for Law Enforcement
Criminal gangs no longer operate solely on the streets. They’re using digital platforms to scale a wide range of criminal activities, such as drug trafficking, extortion and money laundering, and to coordinate across borders with minimal physical presence. From extortion and human trafficking to identity theft or fraud using encrypted apps and anonymous networks, criminal…
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Why Fraud Mitigation Can’t Wait: Confronting the Surge in Cybercrime
Fraud mitigation refers to the proactive steps and strategies organizations implement to reduce the risk and impact of fraudulent activities — particularly in the cyber domain. In today’s increasingly digital economy, fraud is no longer confined to isolated incidents, it has become an endemic form of cybercrime. It has evolved into a sophisticated, constantly shifting…
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