Economics & Country Risk

Foresight Country Risk for Security Professionals

Develop and maintain a best-in-class security function within your organization

Do you have the right tools to ensure the security of your personnel and assets?

Business may be global, but security is almost always local. Security Managers increasingly face questions that require geo-referenced, risk tagged, actionable intelligence combined with highly proprietary data on their organization’s operational footprint, business cadence and personnel locations around the world.

Foresight Security Planning Service delivers the intelligence needed to make the right operational and strategic decisions about personnel and assets. Designed for pro-active corporate security teams the Foresight Security Service provides granular forecasts and location specific risk analysis for 211 countries and enables security professionals to:

Anticipate change: Foresight delivers relevant indicators of the future business environment to decision makers, highlighting changing operational and security environments early enough for those risks to be efficiently managed
Custom risk ratings for key facilities: My Location Analysis allows clients to upload company-specific location data and generate site specific risk scores, allowing for visualization, monitoring and analysis of key risks
Monitor travel risks: The granular forecasts and location specific intelligence events provide actionable inputs for strategic and travel security planning with email alerts to track risk events
Business focused: Foresight’s analysis is concise, actionable and commercially relevant. It empowers more than 100 corporate security teams to support their business and grow profitably and safely
Objective and independent: Our independence allows us to access areas others cannot. It is central to the Foresight ethos that we retain an objective view
Enterprise risk management: Foresight draws from a unique intelligence infrastructure and is presented in different platforms tailored to the end users. The use of Foresight across teams can support vision of pro-active risk management

Capabilities

Risk ratings

Forward-looking Country Risk Ratings assess the impact of events on country risk based on key security risk measures: Property risks including Protest and riots, Terrorism, Interstate and Civil War, as well as, risks to Individuals, Cargo and Transport, and the general Business Environment

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Location specific Political Violence risk ratings for every 500 x 500 meters with scores for Civil Unrest, Terrorism and War risk presented in an interactive risk heat map

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Insights and analysis

Detailed Country reports and Headline Analysis provide an in-depth dive on developments and the risk outlook

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Track risk events and evaluate security threats with daily updated Intelligence events from our in-country specialists (700 events added to our database daily)

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Sophisticated mapping tools

Location Analytics – Visualize and risk score your global networks with our custom location intelligence tool. Upload locations and company-specific data to generate political violence scores for each asset, interrogate our risk heat map to assess risk to personnel and assets

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Delivery and workflow tools

IHS Markit Connect® – Access your subscription through our highly customizable web platform

Email alert updates to specific analysis
Save and update comparative dashboards (portfolios)
Organized content views for a broader perspective on countries, regions, industries
Powerful tools to retrieve and visualize economic and industry data
Robust graphing options with easy export into company reports
Easy-to-use search capability
24/7/365 access anywhere, anytime from laptop or mobile device

Security Risk API – Access all your Foresight Security risk intelligence from your mobile device

Methodology and expertise

Managed by the largest team in the market – more than 110 dedicated country risk analysts and economists, 200 in-country analysts and 1,000 global sources
Rigorous forecasting tools and risk frameworks
Consistent record for forecasting accuracy, with analysis by full-time expert economists, political analysts and modelers
Inputs gathered from a network of in-country analysts, official sources, local and regional media, social media, and our extensive human source network

Expert Access

Direct email access to our team country analysts for insights on developments that could impact the risk environment
Exclusive invitations to regular webinars and events briefing on significant political and violent risk trends

Custom Analysis (additional fee)

Our risk analysts can help frame security risks to your business environment with these additional services:

Stakeholder flagging: Identification of key project players/influencers
Agenda/pressure analysis: Impact analysis of stakeholder priorities and constituency demands
Stakeholder mapping: Early risk alerts and key players to engage
Scenario planning: Realistic country situational changes and operational impacts
Strategic planning: Stakeholder engagement and risk mitigation needed to sustain business operations