Capabilities

Private intelligence for consequential environments

Cipher Cortex helps clients understand and reduce exposure, investigate complex digital threats, assess adversary activity, and obtain decision-relevant intelligence from difficult information environments.

Engagements are scoped to the question that matters — assessments, investigations, mission support, or qualified-partner research. Work is evidence-backed and discreet.

Protective Intelligence

  • Executive and family digital exposure assessments
  • Digital footprint reduction
  • Impersonation and reputational-risk response
  • Protective monitoring for qualified clients

Who it is for

Executive protection teams, family offices, counsel, and organizations with high-exposure principals.

Typical questions

What is visible, impersonatable, or exploitable — and what can be reduced without creating new exposure.

What we examine

Public records, family exposure, social presence, credential leakage, impersonation surface, and travel-related indicators.

Deliverables

Exposure report, risk-ranked findings, evidence, remediation options, and monitoring guidance where appropriate.

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Digital Investigations

  • Scam, fraud, and impersonation investigations
  • Identity, persona, and infrastructure analysis
  • Remote-worker, contractor, and vendor diligence
  • Evidence packages, timelines, and attribution support

Who it is for

Security, legal, and investigative teams responding to fraud, impersonation, or a person whose identity does not hold.

Typical questions

Who is behind this. What infrastructure is in play. What can be evidenced and acted on.

What we examine

Personas, domains, accounts, payment pivots, infrastructure clusters, and activity timelines — including DPRK IT-worker risk where relevant.

Deliverables

Investigation report, mapping, evidence package, timeline, and recommended next steps.

Specialized diligence on North Korean IT-worker risk is described on the DPRK diligence page.

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Mission Intelligence

  • Government, prime, and subcontractor support
  • Structured OSINT collection and analysis
  • Threat-actor and infrastructure research
  • Finished intelligence, research briefs, and analyst surge support

Who it is for

Government, prime, and mission teams with a defined requirement — not a generic monitoring feed.

Typical questions

What can be collected, sourced, and reported against this requirement with stated confidence.

What we produce

Collection summaries, entity and country studies, infrastructure analysis, and finished intelligence writing.

Handling

Focused scopes, source discipline, confidence levels, and mature handling agreed before collection.

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Access & Research

  • Differentiated external intelligence and collection
  • Research from difficult information environments
  • Specialized country, campaign, and ecosystem coverage
  • Restricted intelligence products and qualified-partner access

Who it is for

Qualified commercial, legal, and mission clients who need insight that is hard to obtain through standard open sources alone.

How it is framed

We do not claim exclusive or classified access. Products are specialized, first-party, or hard-to-access intelligence where that description is defensible.

What we examine

Country, campaign, and ecosystem questions that require disciplined collection and senior analytical judgment.

Availability

Restricted products and partner access are scoped case by case. Internal platforms remain operator-only; see Platform.

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Tell us the question. We will help determine what is knowable, what matters, and how to proceed.

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