Investigations and Monitoring

Cyopsis assembles teams of investigators with appropriate expertise to conduct discreet, comprehensive, timely, cost-effective, and accurate investigations resulting in actionable and well-documented intelligence for our clients. Our founders, in-house personnel, and partners include seasoned investigators with a wide range of experience, including federal and state law enforcement, IT forensics, criminal defense, business, and journalism. The expertise and resources of Cyopsis investigators and intelligence analysts mean that we can run inquiries to ground in both cyberspace and the real world. Cyopsis investigators also have the knowledge and tools to preserve evidence and chains of custody and to produce end-products upon which clients can make decisions and take action.

Location of Assets and Persons

Cyopsis investigators can assist clients in locating assets and persons for a variety of purposes, including:

  • Uncovering and preventing fraud and illegal activities
  • Restoring misappropriated assets
  • Examining the realities of corporate and business relationships
  • Verifying the holdings of individuals or businesses
  • Locating evidence
  • Collecting debts
  • Tracing witnesses, wrongdoers, or missing persons
  • Discovering the true actors behind false identities or anonymous acts
  • Preventing evasion of court orders, including child support orders
  • Investigating genealogy and other relationships
  • Restoring lost, reformatted, or erased data

Throughout an investigation, Cyopsis can help clients in working with law enforcement, other government entities, and legal counsel where appropriate. Cyopsis can also track assets and persons across borders and provide foreign-language searches.

In addition to providing traditional human intelligence, Cyopsis uses cutting-edge computer forensics and search capabilities to flesh out and verify the information turned up on the ground and on paper. Cyopsis’s IT capabilities allow our investigators to search, process, and analyze large volumes of data from a variety of sources and in a variety of formats. These resources prove invaluable in cutting through irrelevant, duplicative, or misleading data, allowing Cyopsis investigators to better follow trails and reveal inconsistencies. Adding Cyopsis’s state-of-the-art technological tools and expertise to your investigative arsenal can make all the difference in your results.

Surveillance and Monitoring

Cyopsis provides clients ongoing surveillance and monitoring services, both computer and human. Our investigators’ background in law enforcement results in safe, professional, discreet, and efficient surveillance on the ground. In cyberspace, Cyopsis provides ongoing monitoring of online activity, including IT security measures. Our combined human and IT surveillance and monitoring capabilities allow Cyopsis to provide services such as:

  • Preventing the disappearance of suspects or witnesses
  • Tracking lost or stolen data or assets
  • Following transactions and money trails
  • Tracking computer usage
  • Detecting and preventing potential cyber crime
  • Uncovering corporate espionage
  • Anticipating protests, sabotage, or defamation

Intelligence and Counterintelligence

Business intelligence-gathering simply means finding and collecting information relevant to a company's business, which can include market pricing, consumer attitudes and preferences, ownership of desired property, etc.  Counterintelligence is information-gathering for a defensive purpose, for example to protect proprietary information, assets, or reputation.

Cyopsis gathers intelligence for its clients from a wide variety of sources for all sorts of purposes.  Utilizing proprietary search capabilities, Cyopsis can search and analyze huge volumes of publicly-available records for information relating to a company or its competitors, including public filings, criminal records, media coverage, and the like.  We conduct intelligence-gathering both in the US and internationally.

For instance, Cyopsis can alert clients of attacks being planned against them in cyberspace, including potential assaults on security systems and defamatory discussions by competitors or current or former employees in public forums.  We can also conduct principled opposition research to bring to light information that may not be widely known, but that bears on important decision-making.