Much can be learned about an individual’s lifestyle from open source collection and social media analysis — but an examination of tangential relationships often reveals a great deal more.
Influence and social network mapping support our wider due diligence work. We create baselines against which future activity can be monitored and measured, enabling regular updates about a subject’s changes in behaviour over time.
Our open source collection methods protect the identities of our clients and analysts. We focus on unique data that goes beyond traditional searches — metadata, postings tangential to the subject of inquiry, and data sets that are not indexed by search engines. Depending on scope, we may analyse the deep web, dark web, social media, news organisations, and proprietary sources available to licensed private investigators.
Clients engage us to assess reputational risk before hiring or signing, to understand the network around a subject rather than the subject alone, to monitor an ongoing situation, and to identify digital exposure that creates a security risk for executives.
We helped college football programmes determine which athletes posed the least risk to the school’s brand, and provided prospective and current player reputation and risk assessment to NFL teams based on social media histories — supplemented with customised training on using social media professionally.
C-suite executives and managers were being targeted by activist investor groups, exposing security vulnerabilities in their personal digital footprints. We conducted white hat investigations of those vulnerabilities, explained why they existed, helped close the loopholes, and trained the executive team and management staff on maintaining digital privacy and security.
We used digital forensics and technical collection techniques to positively identify a stalker targeting a high profile individual. Supplemented with proprietary databases and open source collection, we provided a thorough analysis of the individual and his behaviour. Our evidence was used to successfully obtain a court order against the subject.
The Akeeli Group is a licensed Texas private investigations firm (Lic. #A-06984) based in Houston, working for clients across the United States and internationally. Call 713.622.1567 or send us a message.
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