Building a Hardened Cyber Threat Intelligence Platform for Counter-Terrorism Ops
SentinelCTI was engineered with intelligence analysts, field operators, and cyber defenders to create a secure, AI-driven environment that anticipates, detects, and disrupts digital campaigns supporting terrorism and banditry.
Why We Built SentinelCTI
Terrorist and bandit groups across Africa have weaponized digital channels for recruitment, propaganda, financing, and covert coordination. Traditional monitoring tools expose analysts to adversarial content, lack multi-channel correlation, and struggle to maintain source anonymity.
SentinelCTI fuses cyber threat intelligence, secure communications monitoring, and hardened AI operations to deliver a secure environment for gathering insights without compromising operators or infrastructure.
Joint Task Force Collaboration
SentinelCTI enables intelligence, military, and law enforcement agencies to collaborate securely. Attribute-based access control ensures need-to-know dissemination while maintaining audit-ready provenance for every action.
Platform Anchors
- Multi-channel ingestion covering social media, dark web enclaves, satellite feeds, and RF intercepts.
- Integrity guard protecting AI models and data pipelines from poisoning and adversarial manipulation.
- Zero-trust identity fabric providing continuous authentication and clearance-aware redactions.
- Rapid deployment playbooks for demo environments, executive briefings, and scenario planning.
Strategic Pillars
Mission-Driven Intelligence
Every analytic output is traceable to an operational question. Analysts receive clarity, context, and recommended actions rather than raw logs.
Secure by Design
From ingestion sensors to analyst workstations, the platform enforces zero-trust principles and cryptographic attestation across each microservice.
Federated Collaboration
Built for joint task forces and vetted partners. Attribute-based policies deliver “need-to-know” redactions while keeping situational awareness aligned.
AI Reliability
Adversarial testing, synthetic data drills, and signed dataset provenance ensure AI-driven insights remain dependable under hostile conditions.
Deployment Timeline
Phase 0
Threat Landscape Recon
Joint task force mapped digital footprints of terrorist and bandit networks across West & Central Africa, identifying priority communication vectors and infiltration attempts.
Outcome
Baseline dossiers for 312 networks and cross-border personas established.
Phase 1
Intelligence Fusion Core
Built ingestion pipelines for multilingual OSINT, dark web markets, encrypted chat relays, RF intercepts, and HUMINT notes with automated enrichment and triage.
Outcome
Real-time threat graph linking 7,000+ entities with mission-ready scoring.
Phase 2
Secure Comms & Infrastructure
Deployed zero-trust mesh, hardware security modules, and integrity guards hardening AI models against poisoning, adversarial prompts, and supply-chain attacks.
Outcome
No confirmed infrastructure breaches across 18 months of adversarial testing.
Phase 3
Identity Federation & Field Ops
Rolled out adaptive identity and access controls, joint agency federation, and mobile enclaves for tactical teams to receive tailored intelligence on the move.
Outcome
12 agencies collaborate with continuous authentication and audit-ready trails.
Leadership & Operations
Strategic Sponsor
Joint Security Operations Center (JSOC)
Coordinates inter-agency intelligence priorities and operational readiness.
Platform Engineering
Sentinel Cyber Defense Unit
Designs hardened infrastructure, AI assurance pipelines, and secure deployment tooling.
Field Operations
Signals Exploitation Group
Maintains comms intercept mesh, validates actionable leads, and partners with tactical units.
Governance
Insider Threat & IAM Bureau
Oversees clearance workflows, continuous authentication, and incident investigation.