Founder & Ceo
Belfast & London
RepKnight’s proven, highly secure software captures, analyses and reports on data from the widest range of open source digital, social media, and dark web traffic, across multiple languages. It has been built specifically to help organisations in government, security, defence, policing and law enforcement get the cyber intelligence they need, how and when they need it, with maximum confidence in the result even in the most pressured of circumstances.John has worked closely with UK national intelligence analysts to develop the platform and its product set, to ensure the capability tracks the requirement of agencies and organisations dealing with threat, risk and harm. In 2014, RepKnight won the Security Innovation Award, chosen by the Home Office and security and defence trade organisation ADS Group.Under John’s leadership, RepKnight has developed its platform to:• Provide incisive analysis tools and a tailored reporting function, enabling analysts to turn information into actionable intelligence on any threat, risk or vulnerability with a digital footprint• Support all intelligence requirements, from single pieces of information through to global discussions and trends• Harvest a million messages every minute with near-instant analysis – the fastest open-source monitoring tool on the market - or find a single crucial piece of digital data;• Handle the largest burst in data in the history of social media platforms – the London 2012 Olympic Games - whilst maintaining sub-10-second delivery of analysed data and 100% uptime• Access the widest range of open, social media and dark web sources available • Fully access the Twitter firehose, meaning guaranteed visibility of all content on the network, and handle extreme surges in data volumes• Reach beyond the surface web, with a significant and continually increasing Dark Web range to expose encrypted data or content out of the reach of standard search engines