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White Glove Digital Investigations for Law Firms

Advance your legal capabilities as a trusted counselor to your clients with a world-class intelligence and digital investigation partner specialized in white glove investigations, assessments, and due diligence reports.

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360 VIEW

Gain a comprehensive view of critical issues related to practice areas including national security, intellectual property, cybersecurity and data privacy, and white collar investigations under attorney-client privilege.

Nisos delivers the answers you need to identify, stop, and prevent damage to your clients, their brands, and their reputations.

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INCIDENT MANAGEMENT

Your Client doesn’t get in trouble for having incidents; they get in trouble for how they respond.

Nisos helps legal practices with tough conversations (whether with boards, law enforcement, or security stakeholders) and enables a better security, intellectual property, regulatory, or defensive stance.

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Precision Investigations

Nisos extracts and enriches surface, deep, and dark web data to develop deeper insights into your clients’ unique threats and digital exposure and identify the people targeting them

We provide you with tailored intelligence reporting – including attribution – that allows you to pursue adversaries and respond to national security government investigations aggressively.

A Trusted Partner to Legal Teams

Nisos supports law firms and in-house counsel with unparalleled digital investigations that uncover the people, patterns, and context behind today’s most complex threats.

From insider incidents to reputational risks, due diligence to data breaches, we help legal teams navigate high-stakes matters across cybersecurity, intellectual property, national security, and white collar defense.

Explore how our investigative expertise supports law firms and internal counsel across key legal matters.

Investigations & Insider Risk

Trade Secret Theft & IP Protection

Investigate internal and external actors involved in stolen code, proprietary data, or customer lists. We Identify the methods, trace the exposure, and provide intelligence to support legal recourse.

Employee Issues & Insider Threats

Support legal and HR teams with investigations into data leaks, IP theft, scraping, or unauthorized access by current or former employees, contractors, or third parties.

Executive Protection

Monitor and investigate digital threats targeting executives, from impersonation and phishing to reputational attacks and coordinated harassment campaigns across public and closed platforms.

Fraud and Scams

Uncover fraud schemes involving stolen goods, illicit payments, or false accounts by attributing bad actors, analyzing digital trails, and tracing scams to real identities.

Litigation & Due Diligence

Enhanced due diligence for class action breach lawsuits

Investigate the validity of class members by analyzing breach data exposure, dark web sales, and online behavior to uncover conflicts, lack of standing, or anomalies in claims.

Enhanced due diligence for third-party risk, M&A, FCPA, CFIUS, and KYC

Conduct due diligence to uncover foreign affiliations, regulatory risks, and reputational red flags. We help legal teams evaluate compliance and avoid costly entanglements.

Illicit Trade & Counterfeit Investigations

Identify and attribute actors behind unauthorized sales, stolen tech, or fake products. We trace networks, gather forensic evidence, and support takedown or enforcement actions.

External Threats & Attribution

Brand reputation, disinformation and activism

Monitor and investigate coordinated narratives, activist campaigns, and reputational attacks across social platforms, closed forums, and dark web spaces.

Active monitoring and investigations for breaches, data leaks, and ransomware

Support legal response and regulatory disclosure by verifying the extent of the breach, authenticating stolen data, and identifying the threat actors behind ransomware or e-crime campaigns.

Attribution of e-crime, ransomware, and nation state actors

Attribute sophisticated threat actors using breach data, OSINT, and dark web intelligence. We connect identities to infrastructure, crypto wallets, or aliases to support legal and enforcement action.

Case Study
Cybersecurity and Privacy
Nisos investigates security researchers and uncovers an NDA violation for a global technology brand.
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Intellectual Property & Fraud

Nisos investigates threat actors behind fake apps impersonating a major gig economy platform.

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National Security

Nisos uncovers North Korean state actors gaining employment at major tech platform company.

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“In just a few weeks, your analysts have generated numerous promising leads the FBI, US Marshals and Interpol could not uncover, despite having a three-year head start.”

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Empowering Counsel with Customized Investigations

Technical Signature Analysis

Nisos’ adversarial-minded approach to investigation includes analysis of raw technical data, including off-network connection (pDNS/mobile data) and context for on-network telemetry (application and EDR logs).

Forensic Investigations

Nisos forensic investigations and network analysis bring “outside-in” context to internal telemetry, including analysis of emails, malware reverse engineering, traffic analysis (PCAP, EDR, application logs), and phone and computer imaging.

Adversary Attribution

We identify the individuals behind digital threats by analyzing behavior, techniques, and operational security lapses.

Our investigations tie online activity to real-world identities, revealing the “who” and “why” behind targeted campaigns, fraud, or insider behavior.

Open Source Intelligence Research

Nisos collects and analyzes data from surface, deep, and dark web sources using a proprietary AI-enabled platform. Our analysts apply custom analysis harnesses intelligence-community insights and tradecraft to fluidly interact with open and closed-source social media platforms to legally obtain and parse data breach and personally identifiable information (PII) datasets.

Digital Threat Actor Engagement

Following strict legal and ethical guidelines, Nisos engages with adversaries in open and closed forums to gather intelligence, perform controlled purchases, and uncover intent. This process provides unique insights for our clients and allows the Nisos team to perform appropriate analysis without requiring an “on the ground” private investigative capability.

Transform Your Legal Practice with Nisos

Investigations

Investigate digital threats with confidence

Access Nisos analysts directly with oversight from Nisos’ top advisors who boast over a decade of high-stakes intelligence and investigation experience stemming from the intelligence community at large.

Monitoring

Stay ahead of adversaries with analyst-led monitoring

We deliver proactive alerts and insights tailored to your client’s risk profile. Nisos helps you anticipate threats, manage exposure, and reinforce your role as a trusted advisor to leadership and in-house counsel.

Assessments

See through the eyes of an adversary

Our intelligence platform ingests 30+ proprietary and licensed data sources, including 20B+ breach and dark web records. Our analysts translate this into tailored assessments that help legal teams reduce risk and build stronger cases.

Meet the Team

Jennifer DeTrani

General Counsel

Jennifer DeTrani is General Counsel, SVP Legal, and Corporate Secretary. Prior to Nisos, she co-founded a secure messaging company, Wickr, ran a solo law practice, practiced corporate law in BigLaw and served as a federal prosecutor at the Department of Justice.

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Landon Winkelvoss

Co-Founder and VP of Legal and Intelligence Advisory

Landon Winkelvoss co-founded Nisos in 2015 and serves as its VP of Legal and Intelligence Advisory. He leads Nisos legal go-to-market where his team is directly involved in sales, demand generation marketing efforts, law firm partnership acquisition, product management, and project sales conversion to annual recurring revenue.

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