Field notes from the analyst desk.

2025.05.22 · 1518 UTC report

The Road to COP30

Seerist covers the COP30 agenda, geopolitical outlook, and practical guidance for organizations planning to attend the conference.

2025.05.19 · 1614 UTC report

Roland Garros, French Open

Seerist forecasts heightened security and potential disruptions during the French Open amid elevated threat levels in Paris.

2025.05.05 · 1527 UTC report

US Strikes and Potential Ground Offensives

US Strikes and Potential Ground Offensives: Outlook for the Houthis and the Red Sea

2025.05.02 · 1409 UTC report

May 2025 Global Outlook

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

2025.04.28 · 2339 UTC

Choosing the Right Incident Response Solutions for Your Organization

Due to the multifaceted nature of modern threats, security teams need to be more diligent in their approaches to keep people, assets, operations, and reputations safer than ever before. While avoiding all obstacles is impossible, with proper planning and foresight, it is possible

2025.04.24 · 1934 UTC

Best Practices in Threat and Risk Assessment for Large Enterprises

While large enterprises often have security teams dedicated to ensuring strong protocols, they aren’t immune to threats. No matter the size or sector, today’s organizations face unprecedented complexity due to the global threat landscape. Geopolitical instability, cyberattacks, d

2025.04.24 · 1926 UTC

The Benefits of Open Source Threat Intelligence For Physical Security

Open Source Threat Intelligence (OSINT) is the umbrella term for all information and data derived from publicly available sources. These sources include Internet search engines, print and online news media, blogs, social media channels, academic studies, research reports, and eve

2025.04.24 · 1858 UTC

Building Resilience: Global Supply Chain Risk Management

Operational disruptions can significantly impact an organization, with supply chain complications being among the most common and costly—averaging 6–10% of revenue losses, according to a 2021 Economist Intelligence Unit study. Beyond financial damage, these disruptions can also h

2025.04.17 · 1323 UTC report

2025 Q1 Security Incident Report

Q1 2025 Security Incident Report​ Seerist’s intelligence team verified more than 29,000 events of war, terrorism, unrest, and organized crime around the world last quarter. We extracted key insights from the data and offer forecasts on what’s to come in the months ahead. Insights

2025.04.14 · 1610 UTC

Data Diversity for Robust and Accurate Event Alerting and Decision-Making

Data diversity is essential for robust and accurate event alerting and decision-making in today’s information-rich environment. Overreliance on single data sources can significantly limit the scope of insights and increase the risk of bias or misinformation. Each data source has

2025.04.13 · 1619 UTC

AI-driven + Expert Verified Events Provides Speed, Accuracy and Veracity

AI-driven and Expert Verified Events combine the power of advanced artificial intelligence with human expertise to deliver fast, accurate, and reliable insights into emerging global events. This hybrid approach is essential in addressing the increasing volume of publicly availabl

2025.04.12 · 2138 UTC

Bias and Mis/Disinformation for Accurate and Reliable Alerting

Understanding bias and mis/disinformation is critical to ensuring the accuracy and reliability of alerts regarding emerging events. In today’s information-rich world, vast amounts of data are readily available, but much of it is influenced by various biases, misinformation, and d

2025.04.10 · 1903 UTC

Introducing Seerist DiscoverAI: Stronger Security, Smarter Decisions: Tools to Enhance Risk Management

Security and intelligence teams work tirelessly behind the scenes to safeguard an organization’s people, assets, and operations. As teams grapple with the ongoing revolution in the open-source intelligence (OSINT) field, it continues to be exceedingly difficult to successfully mo

2025.04.10 · 1621 UTC

How to assess risk, threat, & vulnerability: a 5-step framework

Along with the growing complexity of the threat landscape, security teams are finding it more challenging than ever to manage evolving physical and cyber threats, hybrid warfare, and increasingly interconnected global systems. Many organizations struggle to adequately assess and

2025.04.10 · 1605 UTC

Navigating Political and Social Threats: A Travel Risk Management Guide

There is no doubt that global political instability is impacting and disrupting travel and business operations. Due to the fact that political and social threats are now more nuanced, involving both traditional security risks and emerging challenges like disinformation, civil unr

2025.03.31 · 2034 UTC report

April 2025 Global Outlook

Seerist has identified the following key developments and trends to watch globally over the month of April.

2025.03.26 · 1243 UTC report

Tracking Serbia Protests

Explore how Seerist has tracked Serbia protests since November, offering insight into current events and potential developments.

2025.03.25 · 1629 UTC

Looking Ahead: Next Generation I&W and Alerting

The Next Evolution in Alerting As the global information environment continues to evolve at a breathtaking pace, organizations increasingly turn to publicly available information (PAI) and OSINT analysis as a core component of their situational awareness. Large-scale alerting sol

2025.03.14 · 0216 UTC

Preventing Garbage In, Garbage Out: Optimize Open-Source Data for Effective Risk and Security Analytics

Open-source analytics have revolutionized the ability of organizations, especially U.S. government (USG) agencies, to monitor global events and respond to emerging threats. However, heavy reliance on a narrow range of publicly available information (PAI) sources has exposed criti

2025.03.12 · 2235 UTC

Unveiling the Threat Landscape: A Guide to Threat Analysis

Threat analysis is crucial for a strong security strategy, helping organizations identify, assess, and address potential threats. With security threats constantly evolving, leaders must conduct regular threat assessment—not as a one-time task but as an ongoing security process. T