Nisos

What Nisos does

Nisos is a managed intelligence and human risk management firm founded in 2015 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, operating as Nisos Holdings Inc., a Delaware-incorporated corporation. The company delivers analyst-led intelligence services combined with the Ascend™ platform, which transforms tradecraft into client-accessible tools for real-time detection of insider threats, executive protection risks, and employment fraud. Core offerings include the Ascend platform (with Executive Shield and Insider Threat Intelligence modules), Employment Shield, OSINT Monitoring and Analysis Suite, Third-Party Intelligence, Risk Assessments, Threat Monitoring, Investigations, and Threat Landscape Assessment services, alongside thought leadership content through the CYBER5 and Know Your Adversary podcasts and the Trusted Workforce Handbook.

Underlying technology combines open-source intelligence (OSINT) tradecraft with detection capabilities across NLP, computer vision, and anomaly detection, applied to identifying AI-generated resumes, deepfake profiles, voice cloning attacks, and state-sponsored employment fraud schemes. The Ascend platform provides outside-the-firewall risk visibility and is built on the firm's proprietary research database accumulated across years of client engagements.

Nisos operates a sales-led, enterprise-focused go-to-market with quote-based pricing, multi-year contracts, and a direct sales motion targeting security, legal, HR, and intelligence teams. Revenue is generated through managed intelligence services, Ascend platform subscriptions, and professional services. The customer base spans cyber insurance (Cowbell Cyber), legal (20 of AM Law 100 firms), online platforms (4 of top 6 social media companies, Uber), financial services (2 top global banks), healthcare (Boston Scientific), federal government (FBI collaboration), gig economy (4 of top 7), and Fortune 500 retail (2), supported by international operations in the UK and the Netherlands.

Name

Nisos

Legal name

Nisos Holdings Inc.

Website

https://nisos.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Threat Intelligence & Human Risk Management

NAICS

Other Computer Related Services (541519)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Insider Threat Program Design & Risk Assessments (BPAKADAM)

akta.pro secondary industry

Third-Party & Supply Chain Exposure Monitoring (HDADAHAJ)

Keywords

• Human risk management
• Threat intelligence services
• Insider threat detection
• Executive protection
• OSINT investigations

Headquarters

HQ city

Washington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Managed Intelligence Services: Expert-led human risk management solutions delivering intelligence, insights, and guidance. Includes assessments, monitoring, investigations, and threat landscape assessments provided as an extension of client teams.
2. Ascend Platform Subscription: Platform-based subscription providing clients with self-directed access to tradecraft tools for insider threat detection, executive protection, and risk monitoring.
3. Professional Services: White-glove analyst-led services including targeted intelligence delivery, assessments, investigations, and expert guidance as an extension of client teams.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Nisos provides managed intelligence and human risk management through its proprietary Ascend™ platform and analyst-led services. The offering combines OSINT tradecraft, continuous monitoring, and targeted investigations to identify insider threats, employment fraud, executive threats, and third-party risks for enterprise, legal, federal, and platform clients. Deliverables include real-time risk dashboards, protective intelligence for executives, due diligence on hires and partners, and attribution-grade investigations.

Product overview

Nisos is a human risk management company offering a platform-plus-services architecture. The core offering is the Ascend™ platform, which provides real-time insider threat detection and executive protection capabilities. The platform includes Executive Shield and Insider Threat Intelligence Solutions as key modules. Complementing the platform are analyst-led services including Employment Shield for employment fraud prevention, OSINT Monitoring and Analysis Suite, Risk Assessments, Threat Monitoring, Investigations, Third-Party Intelligence Solutions, Threat Landscape Assessment, and Adversary Insights services. The company also produces thought leadership content through the CYBER5 and Know Your Adversary® award-winning podcasts, and offers the Trusted Workforce Handbook as an educational resource for building trusted workforce programs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Ascend™: Nisos's human risk management platform for insider threat detection, executive protection, and real-time risk monitoring.
• Know Your Adversary®
• CYBER5™
• Employment Shield
• Executive Shield

Products and services

• Ascend™ Platform Human risk management platform that transforms Nisos analyst-led tradecraft into a client-led solution, enabling real-time detection of early risk signals, targeted threat monitoring, and management of executive protection and insider threats.
• Executive Shield Advanced protective intelligence service for executive protection including continuous threat monitoring, at-a-glance risk dashboard visibility, unlimited individual risk assessments, hands-on PII identification and removal, and risk reduction tracking over time.
• Insider Threat Intelligence Solutions Proactive external insider threat intelligence service delivering real-time, intent-based, beyond-the-firewall risk visibility with noise-free, actionable insights and a unified view of external digital signals to identify early indicators of insider threats.
• Employment Shield Analyst-led solution designed to identify and prevent employment fraud by assessing hiring risks, conducting deep investigations on high-risk individuals, and monitoring for ongoing and emerging employment fraud threats including DPRK IT worker schemes.
• Human Risk Services Expert-led human risk management service suite delivered as an extension of client teams, including Risk Assessments, Threat Monitoring, Investigations, OSINT Monitoring and Analysis, Third-Party Intelligence, Threat Landscape Assessment, and Adversary Insights.
• OSINT Monitoring and Analysis Suite Open-source intelligence monitoring and analysis service providing cross-platform visibility to identify threat actors, track persona networks, and gather intelligence for investigations across employment websites, freelance platforms, and social media.

Quantifiable outcome

• Identified 22 DPRK operatives who submitted 166,893+ job applications, securing 76 job offers, as part of industrial-scale employment fraud operation
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability9 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• FBIcoreOthersPartnership to strengthen cyber intelligence and threat response capabilities. Nisos collaborates with law enforcement on threat investigations.
• Cybercrime AtlasminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership to strengthen global cyber threat intelligence sharing and collaborative threat analysis.
• GIFCT (Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership supporting trust and safety initiatives and platform security research.
• Cowbell CyberminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership delivering intelligence and investigative support for cyber insurance policyholder risk reduction across Cowbell's ecosystem.
• Social Media Platforms (4 of top 6)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with four of the top six social media platforms for threat intelligence and platform protection services.
• AM Law 100 Firms (20 firms)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPartnership with 20 of the AM Law 100 firms for advanced human and data risk protection in legal industry contexts.
• Gig Economy Companies (4 of top 7)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with four of the top seven gig economy companies for human risk and data protection.
• EV Manufacturers (2)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with two EV manufacturers to strengthen cybersecurity and human risk protection.
• Global Banks (2)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with two top global banks for advanced human risk intelligence.
• Fortune 500 Retailers (2)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with two Fortune 500 retailers for advanced human risk protection.
• US Ally Embassies and UN MissionscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with US ally embassies and UN missions to enhance global threat intelligence and protection.
• MARSminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for threat intelligence and risk protection services.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• ZeroFox: ZeroFox provides external threat intelligence, digital risk protection, and executive/brand protection on a platform-plus-services basis, closely mirroring Nisos's human-risk management approach for enterprise and platform customers.
• GroupSense: GroupSense delivers digital risk protection, threat intelligence, and analyst-led investigations for enterprise security teams, overlapping directly with Nisos's managed intelligence, OSINT monitoring, and third-party risk offerings.
• Constella Intelligence: Constella offers digital risk and identity intelligence services with a focus on executive protection, insider threat, and external risk signals, competing head-to-head with Nisos in human-risk and outside-the-firewall visibility.
• Flashpoint: Flashpoint delivers threat intelligence and managed intelligence services across cyber and physical risk, with overlapping use cases in adversary insights, fraud, and OSINT-driven investigations comparable to Nisos's offerings.
• Digital Shadows (ReliaQuest): Digital Shadows (now part of ReliaQuest) provides digital risk protection and external threat intelligence services with direct overlap to Nisos's OSINT monitoring, executive protection, and external risk signal offerings.
• CyberSixGill: CyberSixGill delivers threat intelligence from the deep and dark web plus managed intelligence services, intersecting with Nisos's OSINT-driven investigations and adversary insights for enterprise security teams.

Broad incumbents

• Recorded Future: Recorded Future (owned by Mastercard) is a large-scale threat intelligence platform serving enterprise and government with broader scope than Nisos, but competes for the same external risk and adversary intelligence budgets.
• Mandiant: Mandiant (now part of Google Cloud) provides threat intelligence and incident response services alongside a much broader portfolio, competing with Nisos in intelligence-led investigations and adversary attribution for enterprise and federal buyers.
• Kroll: Kroll operates a large investigations, cyber risk, and due-diligence practice that overlaps with Nisos's third-party intelligence, executive protection, and OSINT-led investigation services for enterprise and legal clients.
• CrowdStrike: CrowdStrike's Falcon platform and Charlotte AI threat intelligence capabilities provide broader endpoint and adversary intelligence offerings, increasingly competing with Nisos in external threat monitoring and executive/insider risk for large enterprises.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/nisos
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/nisos
• Instagraminstagram.com/nisos.intelligence

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors4 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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