Why is Physical Security Intelligence important today?

Physical threats increasingly originate online. PSI helps organizations connect digital indicators—like doxxing or extremist chatter—to real-world actions such as protests or targeting, reducing blind spots and response time.

How does ZeroFox deliver Physical Security Intelligence?

ZeroFox continuously monitors global threat sources, validates alerts through its 24/7 PSOC, and delivers location-based insights via the PSI Mobile App and platform dashboard. Alerts include contextual maps, proximity data, and response recommendations for faster action.

What types of threats does PSI detect?

ZeroFox PSI covers a range of real-world risks, including protest activity, natural disasters, violent crime, geopolitical unrest, and other events that could endanger executives, employees, or facilities.

Who uses Physical Security Intelligence?

Corporate security, executive protection, and global security operations center (GSOC/PSOC) teams use PSI to safeguard executives, manage travel security, and maintain event continuity.

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What Is Physical Security Intelligence?

Physical Security Intelligence (PSI) is the continuous monitoring and analysis of real-world threats that could impact your people, executives, and events. It unifies digital and physical security data to provide situational awareness, real-time alerts, and analyst-validated insights, so security teams can act before a threat escalates.

How ZeroFox fits: ZeroFox Physical Security Intelligence connects the dots between online chatter and on-the-ground action, delivering real-time visibility and through a unified platform that bridges digital and physical protection.

Why Physical Security Intelligence Matters

Executives, employees, and event attendees face a rising volume of physical threats that often start online—protest planning, doxxing, or location leaks—and evolve in minutes. Traditional physical security operations often lack that digital context, leaving dangerous visibility gaps.

ZeroFox PSI fills that gap with 24/7 global monitoring, AI-curated and analyst-validated alerts, and geovisualized threat mapping. From executive travel to high-profile events, PSI gives protection teams the clarity and speed they need to make informed decisions and prevent incidents before they occur.

How It Works

Discover emerging threats across open web, dark web, social, and physical incident sources from protest activity and natural disasters to criminal and extremist chatter.
Validate with real-time analysis and human verification through the ZeroFox Physical Security Operations Center (PSOC), ensuring accuracy and prioritization by relevance and proximity.
Disrupt potential incidents by pushing instant alerts to security teams and executives via the ZeroFox PSI Mobile App, enabling immediate coordination, rerouting, or protective action.

This blend of automation and human intelligence helps organizations reduce time to awareness, unify digital and physical situational awareness, and keep people safe wherever they are.

Physical Security Intelligence in Action

Protest activity, travel disruptions, and local unrest can quickly put executives or events at risk. Often with little public warning. Let’s consider a real-life scenario the ZeroFox team encountered.

When a company’s executives gathered for a Board of Directors meeting, they had no idea danger was just minutes away. An active shooter tweet hit near a monitored facility location, ZeroFox analysts triggered a physical security alert within minutes, delivering real-time suspect images and local updates directly to the client’s SOC and onsite contact. This rapid response not only safeguarded high-profile executives in attendance at that location, but also led to ongoing weekly syncs to enhance travel security.

How ZeroFox Provides Physical Security Intelligence

ZeroFox combines global data, human expertise, and real-time delivery to give security teams the intelligence they need when seconds matter.

Global 24/7 Coverage: Continuous monitoring across 20+ data channels, verified by ZeroFox PSOC analysts.
Geovisualization & Mobile Alerts: A live map interface and PSI Mobile App deliver real-time visibility and on-the-go response capabilities.
Analyst-Validated Accuracy: AI-driven alerting enhanced by expert validation reduces false positives and operational noise.
Integrated Executive Protection: PSI intelligence connects directly with ZeroFox Executive Protection programs for unified digital-to-physical coverage.
Unified Platform: All PSI data feeds into the ZeroFox Platform—correlated with digital risk, threat intelligence, and takedown capabilities for full-spectrum protection.

Because when seconds matter, safety doesn’t stop at the screen.

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Frequently asked questions

Executive Protection is the practice of safeguarding people; Physical Security Intelligence provides the real-time insights that make that protection proactive. PSI detects, validates, and alerts on potential risks so executive protection teams can act before incidents occur.