Products + Services
At IPTalons, we believe that the research environment should be as open as possible but as secure as necessary.
That's why we designed our products and services to help you assess and manage risk, so you can make informed decisions and move forward with confidence during your global engagements.
The “Last Mile” of Research Security
Assume your research security team leveraged an open-source database and discovered a principal investigator with a foreign research affiliation with a high-risk foreign organization. Now what do you do?
Call us. We work with your internal team to determine the best action plan to assess, investigate, remediate, and recover from such an incident. Mishandling these issues can create problems and increase your research institution's enterprise risk.
Research universities and institutions trust our managed research security services. We partner with your team to executive effective and compliant foreign affiliation risk management plans, including unreported research collaborations and sources of funding from Countries of Concern.
Insider Risk + Research Security Program Assessments
Our Program Assessment will provide a full program review to ensure that your research program and staff are prepared to meet emerging insider threat requirements. After this assessment, you will receive a program maturity roadmap tailored to meet your strategic goals and comply with government regulations and guidelines, including NSPM-33. CHIPS Act, SBIR/STTR, CMMC, NISPOM, and specific agency mandates from DoD, NIH, DoE, NASA, NOAA, and more.
Foreign Affiliation Conflicts of Interest
(FA-COI) Disclosure Veracity Check
Our Veracity Check service provides your program with the requisite threat intelligence to determine if your researchers have errors and omissions in their annual disclosure reporting that could impact their research and/or create institutional risk caused by collaboration with an entity of concern, such as a foreign influence threat group.
CMMC Gap Assessments
Leveraging open-source intelligence and methods, our analysts provide deep-dive reporting on topics related to high-risk global engagements. We identify and assess researcher activities to inform your secure research risk management decisions. Deep-dive reports offer insights into researcher collaborations, sources of funding, business activities, and foreign influence relationships.
Deep-Dive Reporting
Due Diligence
and Supply Chain Analysis
Our CMMC Gap Assessment service provides insights into your organization’s readiness to comply with the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) mandates. As a DoD contractor or research grant awardee, your organization must meet NIST 800-171 standards to achieve CMMC Level 2 certification. Our gap analysis identifies where improvements are required and details the steps and resources (staff and funding) needed to fix your secure research enclaves.
We'll provide you with the necessary insights into supply chain-related entities of interest to your company. We review global shareholder structures, partnerships, and business-related activity using publicly available information to conduct industry-standard due diligence work.
Foreign Influence Threat Finderᵀᴹ
If your organization is working in a critical technology sector, there is a high probability that you have a foreign influence or nation-state-sponsored insider risk. Our Foreign Influence Threat Finderᵀᴹ service discreetly scans your network infrastructure and communications for signatures indicative of foreign influence activities, including surfacing relationships between your employees/contractors and known or suspected nation-state-sponsored threat actors. Our analysts and investigators can then assist in designing an incident response plan to address the concern.