Intelligence Journal
The Intelligence Journal consists of informed perspectives on open-source intelligence, emerging threats, security tradecraft, and the discipline of turning information into sound judgment — written for security professionals, executive protection teams, law enforcement, and anyone who takes risk seriously.
The Pathway to Violence: How Analysts Identify Pre-Attack Indicators
Most acts of targeted violence follow a predictable behavioral progression — not a sudden event. This article breaks down the pathway to violence framework, the pre-attack indicators analysts watch for at each stage, and how public safety agencies and corporate security teams turn early warning signs into a documented, defensible threat picture.
Corporate Security Intelligence: How Security Teams Turn Open-Source Information into Decisions
Corporate security teams are flooded with alerts but starved for judgment. This article breaks down what corporate security intelligence actually is, how it differs from automated monitoring, and how analyst-led methodology supports decisions across executive protection, travel security, workplace threats, and event planning.
Touchstone: An OSINT AI Research Assistant Built on Defined Sources
Touchstone is an AI-assisted OSINT research tool built into the SI Intelligence Platform. It turns a question into a sourced, confidence-graded preliminary assessment in minutes — drawing on monitored sources, live search, and SI's own intelligence reporting.
Security Risk Assessment for Executive Protection: An Intelligence-Driven Approach
A security risk assessment gives executive protection professionals a structured framework to evaluate threats to a principal, assess venue and route vulnerabilities, and produce intelligence that drives protective decisions before operations begin.
Inside the OSINT Navigator
The OSINT Navigator surfaces the open-source intelligence SI's analysts monitor across ideological, geopolitical, and social threat categories. This walkthrough covers how the Navigator is organized, what each category tracks, and how to use the saved search feature for recurring topics.
Physical Security Assessment: What It Covers and Why It Matters
Physical security decisions made without an intelligence picture are reactive by definition. This article breaks down what a professional physical security assessment examines — and how analyst-led methodology turns open-source intelligence into protective action.
What Is a Threat Assessment? A Guide for Security Professionals
A threat assessment is a structured, analyst-driven process for identifying and prioritizing risks to people, places, or events. Learn what it involves and when to use one.
Introducing Tripwire: Threat Prioritization Built for Analysts
Semper Incolumem's Tripwire feature transforms the Intel Dashboard into a focused threat prioritization view, surfacing only the incidents that demand immediate attention.
OSINT Platform Update: April 2026
The Semper Incolumem Intelligence Platform has been updated. This briefing covers the four key changes — including Tripwire, a new intelligence category that uses proprietary scoring to surface only the highest-priority items from the full intelligence stream.
The OSINT Revolution: Open-Source Intelligence Becomes Central to U.S. Intelligence Reform
As open-source intelligence becomes indispensable to modern espionage, warfare, and accountability, Washington’s internal struggle over its institutionalization will determine whether the U.S. intelligence community leads or lags in the information age.