The insurance industry is all about efficiency. Whether you’re overseeing the underwriting process or assessing a claim, you need accurate data, and you need it fast. The problem is that most insurance professionals aren’t moving as quickly as they could. Because they’re still relying on manual methods and insufficient data, they wind up spending way […]
The concept of ‘synthesis’ or blending thoughts, ideas, and technologies from different parties to create a more efficient system was the theme for the recent Gartner Business Intelligence Summit held in Las Vegas earlier this month. BrightPlanet’s Vice President of Business Development, Tyson Johnson, attended the summit alongside thousands of industry leaders to discuss and […]
Will Bushee, Vice President of Development, recently sat down with Stephen E. Arnold from Xenky to do an interview as part of Stephen’s research for the OSINT Automation Training Seminar which Stephen jointly hosted in Washington, D.C. earlier this year. Stephen has been instrumental in writing and speaking about the state of search and content […]
Since we released access to our Global News Data Feed earlier this year, which provides over 10,000 global news sources for analysis and use by our customers, we’ve come up with many interesting case studies of our data across a wide array of industries. Last week, we covered how political organizations are using the Global […]
In January, we announced the launch of a new product line called Deep Web Data Feeds. The launch of the new product brought with it the ability to start using our first data feed, the Global News Data Feed, for the ingestion of news data. Through a REST API users are given access to the […]
On February 19, 2015, Tyson Johnson, BrightPlanet’s Vice President of Business Development, presented at ISS World’s training seminar on open source intelligence (OSINT) automation. ISS World’s one-day training seminar focused on using OSINT automation platforms for early warning protection against Internet-based security attacks. In his presentation, Tyson gave tips for developing an OSINT platform for […]
Bot blockers are tools that monitor your website traffic and look for patterns indicating a robot is harvesting your site’s content. When a bot blocker detects a robot, the bot blocker usually drops the request, so the robot thinks that the server is not there and will discontinue making data requests. The bot blocker algorithms are […]
Anti-fraud, money laundering and counterfeiting laws are useless without effective online monitoring. It is important to empower companies who experience loss from fraud and counterfeiting sales of their products to target and take down the offenders with the use of automated open source intelligence (OSINT) monitoring. In this free whitepaper, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) for Fraud Prevention […]
On February 19, BrightPlanet will present at the premier OSINT Automation Product Training Seminar in Washington, DC. This one-day event, presented by ISS World and featuring a presentation by our own Tyson Johnson, will cover everything one needs to know about OSINT, or open source intelligence.
CAPTCHA is the image that appears often containing scrambled words or letters when you fill out a Web form and it is used as a “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.” It prevents robots from automatically submitting Web forms without any human interaction. BrightPlanet cannot submit forms or harvest content […]