What is SEE about?
… what happens around you and whether it is relevant to your interests.
This is your space to monitor and manage your situation (GSOC function, 24/7). The platform offers a map-based visualization of your interests in the context of global events delivered by the data provider sources and our community.
Alerts triggered by events relevant to your interests are also highlighted here (and sent to you on the channel of your choice).
SEE offers a wealth of features which help you to analyze and create situational awareness.
Use Case: Real-Time Monitoring with SEE
Imagine you are a security operations manager responsible for overseeing global company assets, including offices, supply routes, and key personnel locations. Using the SEE module, you have set up a map-based visualization of your interests, including your headquarters, major client sites, and critical transportation routes.
One evening, a protest breaks out near your headquarters, triggering an alert in the SEE module. The alert is immediately highlighted on the platform and sent directly to your preferred notification channel. With SEE, you quickly assess the situation, monitor the protest’s proximity to your office, and determine potential risks. You can then inform your team, adjust security measures, and make timely decisions to ensure the safety of your assets and personnel, demonstrating how SEE enables continuous, proactive management of your global security landscape.
Key Menus and Features Overview
Filters
Filters provide you with the capability to focus your analysis or minimize noise in alerts, ensuring that you focus on the information that truly matters to you.
You can filter countries, interests, keywords, event categories, data providers, timeframes and shapes.
Open the filter bar, allowing you to set filters on your data. You can view, create, and save customized views and alerts based on your filter settings.
For more information on Filters, please refer to the article titled "SEE - Filters."
Layers
The Layers feature in the SEE module provides a comprehensive set of option allowing users to enhance situational awareness through visual overlays (Context layers) on the map, changing map styles or how data is displayed. Many more context layers coming soon.
Key layers include the Airport Layer (context layer displaying airports worldwide, convertible to interest), Severity Layer and the Threat Ratings Layer, which displays analyst threat scores by country and category, along with analyst notes (an executive summary of our country assessments in UNDERSTAND).
Users can choose different Display Modes for Events, Interests and Context Layers, and customize the visualization of events from “Grouped” (reducing redundant display of same events reported by different providers) and “Single” (precise display of all events reported).
For visualizing event density, the Heat Map offers a color-coded view, indicating varying levels of activity.
“Layers” also provides essential Map Tools like Route, Pan, and Distance to facilitate navigation and measurement. Users can switch between different Map Types, including the Default Google view, Clean mode for better contrast, Satellite imagery, and Terrain mode to visualize physical landscapes.
For more detailed information, please refer to the article titled "SEE - Layers."
Views
Opens the views bar where you can save, find or edit your views and alerts. You can also export a visual of your view.
Location
Search Function: Use the location search field at the top center of the main map to search for any location by text and navigate directly to it.
Interest Management
With this menu you can see, search, filter and manage all your interest. You also import, export, share or or bulk delete interest here. As default you see only interest within the current viewport. Using the viewport toggle gives access to interest worldwide.
Events
This menu gives you a list view of all events within your viewport according to the current filter settings. You can search, see details and pin them to find them easily again. Toggle of the viewport to see events worldwide. You can also export the listed events for e.g. analysis in other tools.
Community
In community you find our Forum feed and the Event Comments feed. Forum is the place where anyone, including our analyst can start conversations with a post on whatever security related topic. Internal with only your colleagues or Public engaging with all our users and analysts. Our analyst will post on developments of interest regularly.
Event Comments provide a central access to comment or find comments on events.