Global security monitoring, wider than the war map

Five things on one globe

Security developments cross domains, sources do not

A strike near a port is a conflict event, a shipping event and a supply-chain event at once. The sources that cover each are different organisations with different formats: a wire service, an AIS feed, a commodity register. Kept apart they produce three partial pictures; put on one globe they produce a single question — what is within reach of this? — that can be answered by looking.

That is the design principle behind WarWatch’s layers. The route-health job and the asset-exposure job run one after the other on the same alerts, so a strait and a plant a few kilometres apart cannot disagree about what happened today. The same event that raises a marker also touches the country’s band, the corridor’s score and the assets nearby.

Watching instead of checking

• Custom rules — seven triggers from the alerts page: country severity, alert type, keyword, commodity price move, chokepoint transit collapse, leadership or sanctions change, incident near an asset.
• Alert digest — new critical alerts by email for premium members, deduplicated so a burst is one message.
• Daily report — a scheduled, country-filtered AI report delivered by email at a chosen time.
• Watchlist — a dashboard of saved countries and articles for a free account.

Who monitors security this way

• Security and risk professionals responsible for people, sites or routes in more than one region.
• Analysts who want conflict, trade-route and military-activity signals on one screen.
• Journalists covering a region where the story moves between land, sea and air.
• Investors following exposure of commodities and corridors to conflict.

Sources and limits

All layers are built from public material: news and OSINT feeds, public ADS-B and AIS data, open commodity and infrastructure datasets, and published outbreak bulletins. Processing is automated — classification, scoring, transit counting — and the platform states the basis of each figure where it is shown.

Limitations

• Public ADS-B shows only aircraft that broadcast and are received; absence from the map is not absence from the sky.
• AIS can be switched off or spoofed; transit counts are read as a signal, not a census.
• Asset coordinates are largely unverified, which is why one 50 km radius is used for every asset rather than a false precision.
• Outbreak bulletins publish on a weekly cadence and the layer is refreshed to match.
• Conflict reporting lags events and can be wrong; nothing here is independently confirmed unless a source says so.

Every layer is also exposed through the developer API — conflict alerts, scores, chokepoints, route health, assets and health alerts.

Frequently asked questions

What is global security monitoring?

Global security monitoring is the continuous observation of developments that affect safety and stability across regions: armed conflict, military activity, threats to trade routes and critical infrastructure, and hazards such as disease outbreaks. It draws on many source types at once and aims to surface change early rather than to report each event in full.

What does WarWatch monitor besides wars?

Eighteen maritime chokepoints with a daily route-health score, 1,419 supply-chain assets scored on reported events within 50 km, military aircraft visible on public ADS-B data and more than a hundred military installations in the premium tracking layer, and a contamination map of hantavirus and Ebola reporting from WHO, CDC, ECDC and ProMED bulletins.

Can I be notified when something changes?

Yes. Custom alert rules cover seven triggers: a country reaching a severity band, a chosen alert type, a keyword in reporting, a commodity price move, a corridor's transit count collapsing, a leadership or sanctions change in the sourced registers, and an incident within 50 km of a named asset. Premium members also receive an alert digest and a daily report by email.

Does WarWatch track ships?

WarWatch uses AIS position data to count vessel transits through each monitored corridor and compare today's count against a 30-day baseline. It does not present a live picture of individual named ships as a product feature.

Is this a substitute for official security guidance?

No. WarWatch relies on publicly available information and automated processing. It is a monitoring and context tool for readers and analysts, not a source of travel or security advice.

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