Intelligence

We live in a time when information is abundant, credibility is harder to assess, and verification often falls on individuals who never expected to become investigators. Whether evaluating a news story, researching a company, vetting a business partner, or assessing an online claim, due diligence...

The 2026 FIFA World Cup will bring an incredible amount of energy, tourism, economic activity, and global attention to our region. It will also bring congestion, heightened security operations, cyber concerns, misinformation, transportation disruptions, and the realities that come with hosting one...

When you strip away the language and the frameworks, most security failures come down to one thing: people saw enough, early enough, and still didn’t act with the weight the situation deserved. That’s not a tooling problem. That’s an accountability and leadership problem. If you’re serious...

The operating environment has changed, and the way organizations approach security must continue to evolve with it. Advances in technology, the proliferation of connected systems, and the increasing use of cyber capabilities, autonomous platforms, and information operations have expanded both the...

OSINT, Knowledge Ecology, and the Myth of the Quick Fix Open-source intelligence is entering a new phase. The discipline is no longer defined primarily by collection or access, but by interpretation, amplification, and consequence. That shift reflects a deeper reality. OSINT now operates inside a...

At Hetherington Group, we not only pride ourselves on the work that we do to help people regain their digital privacy, but we also educate people on things they can do going forward to limit their digital exposure. In honor of digital privacy week, we wanted to share some of our knowledge and...

In January 2026, Business Insider published an investigation detailing how a viral Reddit post alleging systemic exploitation inside a major food delivery platform was, in fact, an AI-driven hoax (Parmar, 2026). The anonymous poster claimed to be a whistleblower bound by a non-disclosure...

In my previous blog, we covered the importance of a comprehensive strategy for Digital Executive Protection (DEP) that goes beyond Personally Identifiable Information (PII) removal. In this second blog in the series, I want to address the role of social media data in DEP and how a comprehensive...

It’s time we had a real discussion about what Digital Executive Protection actually is and what it is currently lacking today. Personally, I’ve only been in the Digital Executive Protection (DEP) space while working at Hetherington Group, however I’ve been in the OSINT world for...