Research & analysis

TRITON Reports

Using the TRITON database, the HMS Research & Analysis team produces a series of reports and publications that offer a unique assessment of terrorist tactics, techniques, operations and strategies. We issue immediate assessments of significant events as they occur as well as deliver regular monthly reporting that interprets trends, compares events, illustrates technical details and derives implications of recent developments.

TRITON Report subscribers:

  • Government departments (worldwide)
  • Police and law enforcement agencies
  • Military intelligence agencies
  • Military IEDD and EOD units
  • Defence research establishments in the UK and US
  • Intelligence agencies worldwide
  • Research and analytical institutions
  • Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
  • Bomb data centres worldwide
  • Business/commercial organizations worldwide

TRITON Report Features

  • Identification of developing and new terrorist attack and targeting methods
  • Exposure of new terrorist IEDs and weaponry
  • Explanation of terrorist reconnaissance techniques
  • Examination and detection of global terrorism trends and tactics
  • Locations of high, medium and low threats ascertained

TRITON Report Subscription

By subscribing to the TRITON Report series clients benefit from a portfolio of regular and timely analysis that takes advantage of our in-house technical expertise and the wealth of information held on the TRITON database. Publications are delivered electronically and all subscribers are encouraged to contact our analysts with enquiries. A monthly Executive Summary PowerPointT presentation is also issued for use in briefings or for a quick overview of the month's events. The information offered in the TRITON Report series cannot be gleaned from any other source - the analysis is exclusive and specialist.

The TRITON Report subscription will:

  • Help you understand the global threat from terrorism
  • Keep you informed of terrorist trends in preparedness for reducing risk to your business/operations
  • Allow you to make calculated decisions relating to the protection of your organization
  • Enable you to develop defeat capabilities
  • Help you to proficiently brief your colleagues and staff

TRITON Report and Executive Summary

  • Issued on the 10th of each month assessing global incidents for the preceding month, excludes Iraq (iTRITON )
  • Around 50 pages of in-depth analysis plus the comprehensive open source collation of open source reported incidents, typically between 1,000 and 1,500 per month
  • Illustrated using maps, charts, photographs, schematics and satellite imagery
  • Statistics generated by the TRITON database revealing trends and notable anomalies
  • HMS Focus Points - a valuable reference feature illustrating e.g. specific groups, weapons, modus operandi
  • HMS Assessments and HMS Comments offer our evaluations and conclusions having compared, analysed and interpreted the open source data
  • Separate PowerPoint presentation for use in briefings or as a quick-reference guide to the month's reporting