Cyber Behavior Profiling
Profile | Predict | Protect
Stay ahead of cyber adversaries by
Understanding → Predicting → Influencing → Designing → Exploiting Their Behavior
DECODE THE MIND OF CYBER ATTACKERS
Modus Cyberandi offers a range of unique solutions and expert analysis to help you understand the motivations, decision making processes, and intentions of cyberattackers.
CYBER BEHAVIORAL PROFILING™
“To understand the artist, you must look at the artwork…to understand the criminal, you must look at and study the crime itself.” – FBI Profiler (retired) John Douglas
A Brief History of Behavioral Profiling
The study of criminal behavior (criminology and criminal psychology) dates back to the mid-nineteenth century. In the late 1970’s, the formal investigative discipline of criminal behavioral profiling originated in the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit (BSU) at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. In 1985, as part of the establishment of the FBI’s National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC), the BSU criminal behavioral profiling program was re-established as the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU).
The criminal behavioral profiling process evolved over time in the FBI BAU as an investigative technique by which to identify the major personality, cognitive, emotional and behavioral characteristics of the offender based upon an analysis of the crime(s) he or she committed.
Modus Cyberandi founder, Cameron Malin, is an experienced, certified, former FBI BAU Profiler who created the BAU’s capability for assessing cyber offenders in criminal and national security cyber cases—the BAU Cyber Behavioral Analysis Center (CBAC). This unprecedented method of behavioral profiling continues the rich foundation of traditional BAU criminal behavioral profiling but is adapted to meaningfully assess the multiplicity of technical evidence sources associated with cyberattacks—such as the “digital weapons” selected by the offenders to conduct their attacks and the “digital crime scenes” that result from them.
Modus Cyberandi offers this unique and unparalleled behavioral profiling service to your organization, providing expert insight into the behavioral characteristics, motive(s), and traits of the offender(s) responsible for a cyberattack(s).
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CYBER ADVERSARY BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENTS
Cyberattacks are a human problem, not a malware or technical problem. Every person has emotions, thoughts, perceptions, expectations and neurobiological responses that shape his or her decision making—cyber adversaries are no different. Modus Cyberandi’s behavioral profiling services provide the deepest assessment of cyber adversaries to help defend your systems, networks, data and reputation.
UNDERSTAND
Gain critical insight into attackers’ motives, intentions and other behaviors to mitigate risk, defend your network and remediate attacks.
PREDICT
Anticipate cyberattackers’ next moves, decision making processes, triggers and inhibitors. Let us help you get five moves ahead of the adversary.
INFLUENCE
When attackers conduct attacks, they have thoughts and make decisions. Implement our strategies to shape the attitudes, beliefs and actions of cyberattackers.
DESIGN
Develop human-factor proactive strategies that put your organization in a position of primacy against cyberattackers.
EXPLOIT
Leverage Modus Cyberandi’s science-based behavioral profiling services to exploit attackers’ cognitive and behavioral vulnerabilities to optimize outcomes for your organization.