Social media is a key source of intelligence for corporate security professionals. As such, it's vital that they choose the right tool for the job to enable efficient social media monitoring and effectively detect potential threats early.

Many hacks go completely undetected as shown by the fact that in 2019 one of America’s biggest banks took over four months to realise they had had a severe data breach! Learn how Signal could have helped this bank find and respond sooner and reduce their reputational damage.

It was only on March 13th, two months after their systems were breached and sensitive data was stolen, that Kathmandu publicly responded to the breach; intelligence software like Signal could have instantly spotted people trying to sell the stolen data online and led to a much faster response time.

In this real-life example, we explore how utilising threat intelligence software like Signal could have easily spotted and halted a massive employee data breach which cost Llyods bank over $140k!

Part of Signal’s job is to aggregate online notifications around threats to buildings and the staff inside which affect business and personal safety in various ways. Monitoring online traffic like this can be the fastest way to notify any business of evolving threats.

In 2017 we launched our dark web monitoring functionality. From there we have evolved it into an invaluable part of our security intelligence offering which is used by corporate security teams across the globe.

In 2018 we launched Signal Spotlight! This feature allows users to analyse the emotion behind potential threats to determine associated risk. Signal users get a real-time overview of the emotional state of Signal search results to better understand the emotional drive behind identified threat intelligence.

Unfortunately, no-one is exempt from terror events happening as was the case in Melbourne on Friday 9th November 2018. During events of this nature it is critical to get rapid information from a variety of sources.