Inside the Nisos Dogpile: How We Solve Human Risk Challenges Together

Some things have changed at Nisos over our years doing business but our ethos of collaboration and innovation has not. While the size of the company, the scope of engagements, and the scale of the adversaries our clients face has grown and evolved, one thing has stayed consistent: the Dogpile remains at the heart of how problems get solved.

At Nisos, tackling difficult problems is in our DNA. What started as a company standard operation procedure, is still the way in which we approach the most complex, unique, high-stakes client challenges in executive digital exposure, insider threats, employment fraud, and third-party risks. When presented with a client problem to solve, and when the client can’t afford to be wrong, we rally our Dogpile.

The Dogpile isn’t just a catchy name – it’s our collaborative, cross-functional response team made up of intelligence experts, data engineers, and business strategists. Together we acquire, aggregate, and apply customized tradecraft to deliver intelligence to disrupt threat actors and protect against human-driven threats. In these cases where standard solutions fall short, we deliver answers that others can’t. We provide in-depth customized investigations that can make all the difference in protecting an organization and its people against threats.

Strategically, the Dogpile is our ability to bridge our cross-functional superpowers to deliver elusive answers to really hard problems. We help clients attribute and contextualize threats for their security teams, legal teams, risk managers, and HR departments. As human risk management becomes a growing focus for organizations, having the ability to connect digital threats to real-world actors is essential.

Tactically, it’s our ability to collectively blend our technical expertise into actionable threat intelligence. The result? World-class human risk intelligence – delivered by people who’ve spent their careers identifying and understanding the “who” behind the threat.

Practically, the Dogpile is a virtual room of driven professionals solving hard problems together. Fueled by endless curiosity, our team thrives on the camaraderie of complex investigations and the satisfaction of delivering results that matter.

Today’s threat landscape is increasingly driven by people – not just code – and there’s a human behind every digital threat. Insiders, contractors, cybercriminals, and state-aligned actors exploit vulnerabilities across the digital and physical worlds, often using tactics like stolen identities, social engineering, deepfakes, and data leaks to target businesses.

That’s where human risk management comes in. Human risk management solutions reduce business risk by identifying, investigating, and addressing threats tied to individuals – both inside and outside their organization.

Managing human risk isn’t easy. Attribution is difficult. And the consequences can be severe: reputational damage, IP theft, financial losses, regulatory penalties, and even threats to employee safety.

It takes humans to solve the most complex human risk problems. That’s why the Dogpile exists.

Even as Nisos has expanded, the Dogpile hasn’t become a relic of the startup days – it has matured into a scalable, repeatable, but still dynamic collaborative culture that takes place in a remote working environment. While today’s Dogpiles no longer require pizza-fueled, late-night shoulder surfing, they still carry the same sense of urgency, curiosity, and shared ownership.

An investigation might start with one or two of our expert analysts, but as findings surface and leads develop, a diverse team quickly assembles to chase down every angle. It’s not uncommon for an investigation to spark dozens of chat messages, fresh theories, and cross-discipline collaboration before we deliver the answers the client needs.

As the company increasingly addresses human risk threats, the Dogpile’s multi-layered approach remains essential. It takes technical acumen, intuition, cultural and geopolitical context, and offensive tradecraft experience, woven together in real time to solve complex human risk problems.