NSIA conducts specialized international research and carries out assignments in some of the world's most challenging operating environments. We deliver highly tailored solutions addressing our customers' informational requirements. We integrate data, intelligence, and analysis to provide our clients with a framework within which to make informed decisions and successfully manage business risk.

Due diligence and investigative activity is particularly essential for corporations doing business in emerging and frontier markets, where partners need to be vetted and bona fides established to help mitigate commercial and operational risk and potential liability. Our research and assessment products also help ensure compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and other key regulations, as well as helping identify criminal or terrorist connections or politically exposed persons under sanction by international authorities.

NSIA has managed and conducted hundreds of customized, foreign research studies for both government and commercial clients in a discreet and largely non-attributable manner. We have conducted over 275 international investigations and due diligence reports in developing emerging markets in the last three years.

Our research and investigative products and solutions draw on a unique methodology developed and tested over many years. Our analytical processes fuse open-source monitoring and exploitation with customized data collection from global resources - specifically localized "ground-truth" research - available to NSIA Advisors. This information is further rounded out by customer-supplied proprietary information enabling us to provide more thorough and complete analytical and decision support products.

Our team has in-depth experience in providing customized information and decision support products to government and private sector customers, including in the energy and oil and gas sector. Our personnel have backgrounds in a wide range of disciplines including: decision support; research and analysis; due diligence and investigations; security consulting; threat assessment and risk mitigation; data acquisition; competitive intelligence; and facility / personal safety and security.