Human Risk Expertise, in Your Hands
Built on a decade of industry-leading adversary intelligence, Ascend™ is an AI-powered human risk management platform that delivers Nisos tradecraft into your hands. It enables client-led risk assessments, continuous threat monitoring, and at-a-glance visibility across human risk exposures.
Ascend: A Human Risk AI Intelligence Platform Trained by Analysts
Ascend is Nisos’ intelligence tradecraft, productized.
Ascend enables you to detect early warning signs of threats and understand the human-driven risks to your people and organization.
The platform scours the surface, deep, and dark web for data. Ascend blends AI-driven pattern recognition with analyst-informed logic to deliver intelligence that helps enterprises manage human risk.
Ascend combines with our white-glove services to provide clients with end-to-end human risk management solutions.
Why Organizations Choose Ascend to Manage Human Risk
Ascend empowers your teams to know where you are exposed and to detect threats to your people and business before they escalate. We provide you with human risk and threat visibility beyond the firewall, and with Ascend, we do it at scale.
Risk Visibility
Actionable clarity
Scalable Protection
Ascend: Digital Intelligence for Human-Driven Threats
Ascend is designed to flex across human risk problems, providing modular, intelligence-led risk assessments and continuous monitoring at scale.
The AI-powered platform encapsulates a decade of adversary intelligence and tradecraft across the digital realm.
The Ascend core system components combine to enable you to assess risk and monitor for emerging human-driven threats:
- External signal intelligence
- Sentiment and behavior pattern detection
- Risk analytics
- Early intent alert
Executive protection is the first Ascend module available.
Protect High-Profile Individuals from Digital and Physical Threats
A client-led experience for advanced protective intelligence that enables you to assess and reduce your executive protection risk, perform continuous threat monitoring, and obtain at-a-glance risk dashboard visibility.
Quick visibility into your employees’ digital footprint and risk assessment – as many as desired
Continuous executive threat monitoring, alerting, and visibility
Know when a threat emerges, so you can take action before it escalates
PII tracking and removal
Ongoing PII removal to reduce your publicly available information, even when it reappears
Risk dashboard and reporting
At-a-glance visibility of your risk exposure at the individual and organizational levels
Risk reduction over time
Understand the ROI of your human risk management program
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Why Security and Risk Teams Trust Nisos and the Ascend Platform
Clients trust Nisos with protecting their people and organization—when they can’t afford to be wrong. Our approach solves client problems through technology and services, and always prioritizes the human connection.
AI-Powered Human Risk Management Platform
Our human risk management solutions blend Ascend technology with our white-glove services to meet you where you are, helping manage your organization’s human-centric risks.
Real-Time Threat Intelligence
Ascend puts Nisos tradecraft in your hands, providing you with risk assessments and threat monitoring, rapidly surfacing risks and threats for you at scale, any time, day or night.
The Nisos Human Touch
Our team is also always here for you with intelligence and guidance. We perform in-depth investigations that deliver answers – like attribution – that others don’t. Our analysts also train Ascend to ensure that clients benefit from their expertise 24/7.
Trusted Human Risk Management Partner
We can also provide full end-to-end, analyst-led intelligence services, working as an extension of your team. Regardless of which client engagement you choose, we develop a custom, curated relationship that evolves with you.
Explore Our Human Risk Insights
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