OSTD dashboard displaying a verified IED incident record used to support risk management and underwriting decisions

Corporate Risk & Insurance

Corporate Risk & Insurance: Intelligence-Led Risk Management for a Shifting Threat Landscape

Insurers, brokers and risk managers are being asked to price and manage exposures that didn't exist on most risk registers a decade ago: drone incursions, maritime IED threats, contested shipping lanes, and a "shadow fleet" that keeps finding new ways to obscure risk. Managing risk at this level takes more than historic loss data. It takes a genuine, evidence-based understanding of how threats are evolving in the field, right now.

EWS has spent over two decades building exactly that understanding, working alongside defence, government and industry partners. Our proprietary intelligence products, combined with a team of specialists (many with military and operational backgrounds), mean we can provide the data corporate risk and insurance clients need to manage risk with confidence, from underwriting through to claims and post-incident review.

Risk analyst cross-referencing open source intelligence with the OSTD threat database during a risk assessment

Specialist Data for Corporate Risk and Insurance Teams

EWS understands the particular pressures facing the corporate risk and insurance sector. Whether you're underwriting war risk and terrorism cover, assessing marine and cargo exposure, or reviewing a claim following a live incident, decisions need to be made quickly and stand up to scrutiny later. We can provide the verified intelligence and operational data that helps insurers, brokers, MGAs and risk teams manage risk with far greater confidence than historic loss data alone can offer.

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Data to Strengthen Your Risk Management Process

Corporate risk and insurance teams sit at the sharp end of an unpredictable threat picture. EWS can provide the intelligence data to help you get ahead of it, at every stage of the risk lifecycle.

We can provide:

  • Intelligence-Led Underwriting Data: Actionable, verified intelligence data to inform risk appetite, policy wording and pricing decisions for war risk, terrorism, marine and cargo lines.
  • Due Diligence and Pre-Incident Risk Data: Independent threat data on insured operations in contested, hostile or emerging-risk territories, to support assessment ahead of binding cover.
  • Claims Verification Data: Technical and intelligence data to help validate claims involving IEDs, drones or other security incidents, giving claims teams a factual basis for decision-making.

Open Source Threat Database (OSTD)

Our Open Source Threat Database (OSTD) tracks IED and RCIED incidents worldwide, and can provide a core data resource for underwriters and claims teams working on war risk, terrorism and political violence lines. For risk and insurance professionals, OSTD data can support both pre-bind risk assessment and post-incident claims verification.

Key Features:

  • Continuous global tracking of IED and RCIED incidents
  • In-depth technical data and device specifications
  • Daily intelligence updates verified by experienced analysts
  • Integrated multimedia and primary source materials

OSTD gives underwriting and claims teams a verified, current evidence base to work from, rather than relying solely on media reporting or after-the-fact accounts.

OverSite: UxV Threat Intelligence

For insurers and risk teams covering maritime, cargo and shipping exposure, OverSite can provide critical data on unmanned vehicles (UxVs), including UAVs, UGVs, USVs and UUVs. With drone-related incidents and shadow fleet activity an increasing feature of maritime and war risk claims, OverSite gives risk teams a detailed data picture of adversary tactics, techniques and procedures.

OverSite Capabilities:

  • Threat intelligence reporting on UxV technologies
  • Detailed technical data on unmanned platforms
  • OSINT-driven intelligence collection
  • Tactical analysis of adversary drone capabilities and deployment patterns

For marine war risk, cargo and political violence underwriters in particular, OverSite data helps quantify a threat category that's expanding faster than most risk models currently account for.

Intelligence analyst monitoring social media sources to verify threat intelligence for corporate risk clients
OSTD dashboard displaying a verified IED incident record used to support risk management and underwriting decisions

Training to Support Risk Management and Claims Teams

Good data is only as useful as the team interpreting it. EWS delivers EW & CEMA training tailored to the corporate risk and insurance sector, helping claims handlers, loss adjusters and risk managers build the technical literacy that strong risk management depends on, including how an EOD response is recorded once a device has been rendered safe, and what that means for a claim.

Our training services include:

  • Electronic Warfare and Signals Intelligence: Understand the technical context behind electronic threat incidents.
  • Counter-IED: Build the technical literacy needed to interpret detection, disposal and rendered-safe reporting accurately.
  • Open Source Intelligence (OSINT): Strengthen due diligence and desk-based investigation capability across your risk and claims teams.
  • Counter-UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems): Understand the evolving drone threat picture relevant to marine, cargo and political violence exposure.

Training can be delivered at our UK facilities, at your offices, or in-region where a live claim or assessment requires it.

Consultancy for Insurers, Brokers and Risk Managers

EWS provides strategic CEMA and EW threat consultancy, and can provide data and analysis to support risk and insurance professionals in refining risk appetite, wording, and portfolio strategy in response to a genuinely shifting threat environment. Our consultants combine operational military experience with technical and analytical expertise.

Key Consultancy Services Include:

  • Intelligence-Led Portfolio Review: Data to help assess emerging exposure across war risk, terrorism, marine and political violence books.
  • Threat Landscape and Market Analysis: Independent data on how threats, and the markets responding to them, are evolving in specific territories or sectors.
  • Policy Wording and Risk Appetite Input: Technical data to help ensure cover, exclusions and conditions reflect the current operational reality.
  • Bid and Proposal Support: Assistance for brokers and MGAs developing new specialist lines or responding to complex tenders.

Field and Technical Data for Post-Incident Review

Where a claim involves a security incident on the ground, having access to people who understand the operational reality is invaluable. EWS can provide technical data and analysis to help insurers and their appointed loss adjusters understand what actually happened, and why.

We can provide:

  • Post-Incident Site Data: Technical data to support loss adjusting following IED, drone or other security-related incidents.
  • Deployed Technical Support: On-the-ground data collection in challenging or contested operating environments.
  • Capability and Risk Advisory: Guidance on emerging technologies and threats relevant to insured operations.
  • Long-Term Technical Partnership: Ongoing data support for insurers and brokers with sustained exposure in higher-risk territories.

A Trusted Intelligence Partner for Corporate Risk and Enterprise Risk Management

Through our intelligence products, training, consultancy and field support, EWS gives corporate risk and insurance professionals the evidence base they need to manage risk with confidence: underwriting accurately, handling claims fairly, and advising clients on the threats they actually face. Led by military veterans with genuine operational experience, our team is built to make sense of complexity most risk models haven't caught up with yet.

Contact EW Solutions today
to discuss how we can support your enterprise risk management, underwriting or claims strategy.

Electromagnetic Warfare, CEMA and Intelligence Specialists Operating in Security and Defence

Electromagnetic Warfare, CEMA and Intelligence Specialists

Electromagnetic Warfare, CEMA and Intelligence Specialists