Protection Group International

Are you confident that you understand the security position of your suppliers and the risks they may pose to your organisation? ⚠️ Going into 2025, governments worldwide are continuing to tighten regulations on supply chain transparency to improve resilience against cyber threats. ⛓️💥 With the new year fast approaching, now is the time to assess your supply chain resilience. Here are some helpful tips on where to start from PGI's Senior Security Consultant. ⬇️ 🔗Read our full guide here: https://lnkd.in/e_vxexrk #SupplyChainResilience #RiskManagement #CyberSecurity

In 2024, the digital safety landscape saw significant changes - so what happened, what did we learn, and what can we expect in 2025? 💎 Find out the key trends, our predictions for the year ahead, and the tightening regulations that will shift the future of digital safety in our latest article from PGI's Client Director, Beth Hepworth, and Senior Digital Investigations Analyst, Reem Awad. 👩💻 🔗Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/e-RWDjgA #DigitalSafety #CyberSecurity #DigitalTransformation #OnlineSafety

As we step into 2025, we'd like to take a moment to thank our clients, partners, and community for another incredible year. 🌟 We look forward to embracing the challenges and celebrating the successes in the year ahead. Here's to a happy, prosperous, and bright new year for all! 🎄 -The PGI team #NewYear #Cybersecurity #2025

What will 2025 look like for the Trust & Safety industry? 🗓️ Service providers face increasing pressure to proactively address on- and off- platform risks as regulations tighten to protect users. 📱 How will this shift towards user safety impact platforms, and how can organisations prepare themselves for the changing standards? 👨💻 🔗Read our latest blog post from PGI's Head of Trust & Safety to find out more: https://lnkd.in/eS4jR78V #TrustandSafety #DigitalThreat #OnlineSafety #RiskAssessment

AI: Truth-seeking vs intelligence 💻💭 Where AI is transforming the disinformation landscape, it's becoming harder to trust what we see online. From fake content to the challenges of detection, the stakes have never been higher for digital trust. If an AI can lie, then who decides when, how, and why it can do so? Should an AI adhere to the first law by lying to protect the emotional wellbeing of one person? Is this starting to sound a lot like a certain early 2000's Sci-Fi movie...? 🤖 Our Digital Investigations team dive into this further in our latest edition of Digital Threat Digest. ⬇️ 🔗Read the full post here: https://lnkd.in/e5_z3r7b #AI #Disinformation #DigitalThreat #TrustAndSafety

On 16 December 2024, Ofcom launched its Illegal Harms Statement, a significant step in the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) roadmap. ✅ This marks a turning point for service providers as they step into a new era of regulation and responsibility for the content they host on their platforms, ultimately creating a safer and more secure online environment. 👩💻 Platforms now have until March 2025 to conduct risk assessments to demonstrate their understanding of the landscape of their services. In Australia, a recently announced under-16 social media ban signals a potential influence toward more hardline approaches to child safety. Meanwhile in the US, there are debates around Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) which could significantly alter how platforms handle liability for user-generated content. 📱 PGI's Head of Trust & Safety, James Smith, commented: “Regulation will continue to dominate the online safety landscape in 2025. More than ever, service providers will be held accountable for activity on their platforms. Compliance is impossible without first understanding threat and risk, both on- and off-platform. PGI is a leader in digital intelligence, empowering clients to understand threat, take action and mitigate risks". Get in touch with PGI today to see how we can help support you with on- and off-platform investigations to authenticate and attribute your platform's content. 📧 🔗Read our latest blog post here to find out more: https://lnkd.in/eaizSATC.. #TrustandSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #ContentRegulation #Compliance #DigitalInvestigations

💡Commentary: Ukraine’s assassination of top Russian general likely to trigger surge in disinformation💡 "On 17 December 2024, Ukraine’s SBU security services claimed responsibility for the targeted killing of top Russian general, Igor Kirillov. Kirillov, the head of Russia's Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection troops, became well known for his briefings promoting pro-Russian disinformation which prompted the UK Foreign Office to label him as a "significant mouthpiece for Kremlin disinformation". Kirillov amplified false claims such as Ukrainian bio laboratories creating a “dirty bomb” against Russia, the US planning to use drones to spread malaria-infected mosquitos to incapacitate Russian soldiers, and that the US created COVID-19. One of the core messages of Russian disinformation does not require convincing your adversary in believing you, but just to create doubt and speculation, no matter how absurd the claim may be. Sticking to the Russian disinformation playbook, Kirillov, and other Kremlin actors helped create an unreliable information environment that seeks to influence foreign policy, and sow distrust and confusion in relation to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Following Kirillov’s assassination, Russian propagandists have amplified speculative claims online stating that the West and NATO coordinated the assassination alongside Ukraine. Russia’s deputy chairman, Dmitry Medvedev declared that officials from NATO countries involved with supplying military aid are now considered military targets for Russia. Kremlin state-sponsored propaganda outlets and pro-Russian threat actors may take advantage of the recent assassination as an opportunity to sow false narratives and even legitimise further escalations of Russian-perpetrated attacks on Ukraine, and its allies." - PGI's Digital Investigations Team #UkraineRussiaWar #Disinformation #DigitalInvestigations #Propaganda

Information ≠ Intelligence 🚫 In our latest edition of Digital Threat Digest, our Digital Investigations team reminds us that meaningful OSINT analysis is derived from unbiased, thoughtful interpretation. 💡 Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eNfNb6yS #OSINT #DataAnalysis #DigitalInvestigations #ThreatIntelligence

💡Commentary: A case of narrative control through social media 💡 "On 09 December 2024, authorities arrested Luigi Mangione at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania, and later charged him with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. As the news reports, since his name was publicly released, Mangione’s rapid passage from obscurity to cultural significance underscores the transformative power of social media in promoting individuals to symbols of broader ideals; in this case resentment towards “parasitic” health insurance companies and corporate America. This phenomenon aptly demonstrates an emergent trend whereby online communities and digital sleuths not only amplify personal stories, but also define global event narratives accordingly, often with a blend of emotion and mythmaking. As a result, the potential power and ethical complexity of using OSINT to reconstruct motives and piece together personal narratives from digital breadcrumbs is also made clear. Investigation by the BBC contextualises his seemingly anomalous actions by highlighting his Goodreads profile where he read two books about back pain in 2022. One of them, titled “Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain industry”, has been widely celebrated as evidence of his status as a “left-leaning, anti-capitalist revolutionary”. The intersection of fandom with breaking news raises critical questions about authenticity and narrative control—who dictates the narrative, why are they doing so, and how might these trending movements, based on virality and short-term public interest, obscure more nuanced realities? Mangione’s story ultimately reveals the double-edged nature of internet fandom, that when coupled with publicly available digital clues, it can act as both a democratising force and a powerful driver of skewed, simplistic content." - PGI Digital Investigations Team #DigitalInvestigations #NarrativeControl #SocialMedia #Disinformation

"There is no room for complacency about the severity of state-led threats or the volume of the threat posed by cyber criminals." 🚨 The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) believes the severity of the risk facing the UK is being widely underestimated. The head of NCSC made their first speech to issue a call for collective action against the increasingly complex cyber risks we are facing as a nation. 🤝 This is a pivotal moment for organisations to prioritise the defence and resilience against cyber threat, to collectively protect critical infrastructure, supply chains, the public sector and our wider economy. ⚙️ Read the full article published by the NCSC here ⬇️ #CyberSecurity #RiskManagement #CyberThreat #SupplyChainResilience