In today’s converged risk landscape, the traditional separation between physical and cybersecurity teams within organizations can create dangerous vulnerabilities. As witnessed during the CrowdStrike outage in July 2024, a cyber threat can quickly become a physical one, taking down digital properties and disrupting company operations. Active threats to executives in the digital realm can become serious security risks to employees.
When these two functions operate in silos, they lack a unified view of potential threats, leaving the organization exposed. A key to closing the gap is a single source of truth of the threat landscape that monitors an organizations’ overall threat exposure across both the cyber and physical domains.
Partnering with Dataminr provides the foundation for this transformation. By leveraging Dataminr’s AI-powered platform, businesses can help their customers break down internal silos and adopt a holistic approach to risk management. This shift not only strengthens security but also creates new opportunities for partners to deliver strategic value, guiding clients from a fragmented defense posture to a proactive, unified risk operations model.
This article explores how a partnership with Dataminr empowers businesses to address these challenges head-on, fostering resilience across key organizational pillars and enabling a strategic shift in how risk is managed from the security operations center (SOC) to the boardroom.
Strengthen Resilience Across Four Key Pillars
Dataminr’s real-time risk intelligence provides the earliest possible indicators of emerging threats, allowing organizations to strengthen their defenses across four critical pillars of operational resilience.
No. 1. Cybersecurity
Cyber threats are constantly evolving, from ransomware attacks to data breaches and digital extortion. Dataminr’s AI platform monitors over a million public data sources, detecting the earliest chatter about new vulnerabilities, emerging threat actor campaigns, compromised credentials, and more. This intelligence can be used to protect an organization’s own digital and physical infrastructure and also monitor risk among third party vendors. Dataminr’s external threat intelligence complements existing security tools, providing cyber teams with crucial lead time to patch systems, block malicious domains, and prepare for potential attacks before they impact the organization.
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No. 2. Physical Security
Physical threats—such as extreme weather, public disorder, supply chain disruptions, or active shooter events—can jeopardize employee safety and halt operations. Dataminr provides immediate alerts on events happening near corporate assets, employee locations, or key logistical routes. This allows physical security teams to take proactive measures, such as rerouting shipments, closing facilities, or warning personnel to avoid dangerous areas, ensuring business continuity and protecting people.
No. 3. People
An organization’s greatest asset is its people. Ensuring their safety and well-being is paramount. Real-time intelligence helps protect employees whether they are at the office, traveling for business, or working remotely. By receiving timely alerts about localized emergencies, health crises, or transportation disruptions, organizations can provide immediate assistance and guidance, fulfilling their duty of care and fostering a secure working environment.
No. 4. Process
Facilitating operational resilience depends on an organization’s ability to detect, understand, and proactively respond to risk in real-time. To do this effectively, teams need to be able to manage risk within the workflows they’re already using. Dataminr’s platform seamlessly integrates with leading security solutions like SIEM, SOAR, and GIS systems. This allows our partners to help customers create new security playbooks and seamless workflows. By incorporating real-time external threat data, organizations can optimize their response processes, automate routine actions, and ensure that both cyber and physical security teams are working from a common operating picture, improving efficiency and decision-making during a crisis.
From the SOC to the Boardroom: Enabling Proactive Risk Management
For too long, risk management has been a reactive discipline with an inside-out approach. Continuous monitoring with a platform like Dataminr transforms it into a proactive, strategic function by letting organizations get ahead of external threats before they arrive. When Boards and key executives have access to a single, outside-in view of emerging risks, they can make more informed decisions about resource allocation, strategic investments, and long-term business strategy.
This enterprise-wide visibility allows leadership to understand the interconnected nature of modern threats. A supply chain disruption in one part of the world, for instance, could have cascading effects on manufacturing, sales, and even cybersecurity if it creates opportunities for bad actors. By seeing the whole picture in real time, executives can move beyond managing isolated incidents to strategically navigating the global risk environment, ensuring the organization’s long-term resilience and stability.
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The Transformation to a Holistic Risk Model
A partnership with Dataminr positions you as a trusted advisor, capable of guiding customers through a critical operational transformation. This involves moving away from outdated, siloed security structures toward a more integrated and effective model.
Evolve from a SOC to a Risk Operations Center (ROC)
The traditional security operations center (SOC) is often focused narrowly on physical threats. A risk operations center (ROC), however, adopts a holistic view. It brings together physical security, cybersecurity, business continuity, and other risk functions into a single, cohesive unit. This command center leverages a common intelligence platform to keep track of and respond to all threats. As a Dataminr partner, you can help architect and implement this next-generation model, providing immense strategic value to your customers.
Leverage a Single, Integrated Platform
Dataminr provides a single risk monitoring platform that serves as the connective tissue for the entire organization. Its ability to integrate across different workflows and processes ensures that everyone—from the analyst in the ROC to the executive in the boardroom—is operating with the same timely, relevant information. This eliminates confusion, speeds up response times, and ensures a coordinated defense against all potential threats.
Unify CSO and CISO Functions
The convergence of physical and digital threats necessitates closer collaboration between the chief security officer (CSO) and the chief information security officer (CISO). The most forward-thinking organizations are merging these roles under a unified risk function. This organizational shift breaks down the final barriers between security domains. Dataminr facilitates this integration, enabling partners to lead strategic discussions about organizational design and risk governance.
Partner with Dataminr for a More Resilient Future
Addressing today’s business challenges requires a new approach—one that is holistic, proactive, and intelligence-driven. By partnering with Dataminr, you can provide your customers with the technology and strategic guidance they need to navigate this landscape successfully.
The Dataminr Partner Network offers the tools, support, and financial incentives to help you build a thriving practice around risk resilience. You can unlock new revenue streams, deepen customer relationships, and establish yourself as a leader in the next generation of security services. Together, we can help organizations eliminate their blind spots and build a safer, more resilient future.
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