Field notes from the analyst desk.

December 2025 Global Outlook

Seerist shares four global outlooks highlighting key geopolitical developments and emerging risks to monitor throughout December.

Enhancing Physical Security Threat Intelligence with Data-Driven Insights

The security industry is a complex field. Physical threats are becoming more frequent and more tightly interconnected with global events, geopolitical instability, and civil unrest. One way risk leaders are working to achieve success despite increasing challenges is by leveraging

Improving Intelligence Analysis Techniques for Better Decision-Making

Decision-making at the highest level is no easy task. From considering the many perspectives of all relevant audiences to evaluating and assessing complex information in a timely manner to minimizing subconscious and cognitive biases, decision-making is often one of the most stre

G20 Leaders’ Summit

South Africa will host the 2025 G20 Summit in Johannesburg; expect tight security, crime risks, and localized unrest or protests.

How High-Reliability Sourcing Underpins Trustworthy AI-Generated Intelligence

Every analyst has a story, likely many stories, of the painful uncertainty they faced upon receiving reports about a developing high-risk situation. It takes time to verify the reliability of a source and trace the origin of a key datapoint. Once the report is confirmed, further

November 2025 Global Outlook

Seerist shares five global outlooks highlighting key geopolitical developments and emerging risks to monitor throughout November.

UN Climate Change Conference (COP 30)

Seerist’s Event Report analyzes security, political, and environmental risks surrounding the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30).

Madagascar Protests and Coup

Serbia Unrest Outlook: One-Year Anniversary of the Novi Sad Tragedy

One year after the Novi Sad tragedy, Seerist analyzes evolving unrest patterns, security implications, and regional stability.

Airspace Violations in Europe

Seerist analyzes EU airspace violations and hybrid attacks, uncovering emerging risks and impacts on the aviation sector.

2025 Q3 Security Incident Report

Q3 2025 Security Incident Report​ Seerist’s intelligence team verified more than 34,000 events of war, terrorism, unrest, and organized crime around the world last quarter. Our experts extracted key insights from the data and offer forecasts on what’s to come in the months ahead.

How a Simple Idea Changed the Way Analysts Work

Innovation often starts with frustration. Our platform provided vast amounts of news and social media data, but it was not always easy to navigate without a specific asset or location in mind. I often found myself scrolling through endless lists of articles just to get a sense of

Streamlining the Incident Management Life Cycle

Despite a security team’s best efforts, any number or threats can emerge and cause significant issues impacting people, operations, assets, reputations, and even the bottom line. While disruptive incidents are inevitable, there are specific steps a security team can and should ta

How Automated Incident Management Improves Response Times

When organizations are dealing with a crisis, two of the most valuable attributes they can have are information and time. Unfortunately, many organizations are often most lacking in these two things – especially in times of crisis. When information is not readily accessible and r

Optimizing the Operational Risk Management Process

Understanding an organization’s operational risk is paramount to its ability to create a robust security posture. Security teams must understand the ins and outs of their business operations to identify what will or won’t impact everyday activities. From failed internal processes

Harnessing Global Threat Intelligence for Enhanced Security

To keep an organization safe from risks and threats in today’s unpredictable business environment, it’s important for leaders to shift away from traditional, reactive intelligence-gathering methods and adopt technology-driven global threat intelligence as the backbone of their se

October 2025 Global Outlook

Seerist shares four global outlooks highlighting key geopolitical developments and emerging risks to monitor throughout October.

Intelligence is Still Drowning in Noise. It Doesn’t Have to Be.

Why does intelligence work still suffer from a noise problem? The technology to tackle the ‘big data’ challenge exists, and in some places it’s working. But most tools in our field still haven’t solved it. Instead, analysts are stuck with tools that force an impossible tradeoff:

September 2025 Global Outlook

Seerist shares five global outlooks highlighting key geopolitical developments and emerging risks to monitor throughout September.

The Tradecraft Problem with AI Tools

Written by Melissa Newberg, Head of Intelligence at Seerist Many of us were there—February 24, 2022, and it looks like Russia really is invading Ukraine. My leadership is demanding immediate answers about employee safety, decisions need to be made, and the information landscape i