Independent threat analysis and advisory support for the Nordic region.
NSA is a non-partisan advisory group that analyses terrorism, violent extremism, hybrid threats, and emerging technology-enabled attack vectors affecting Nordic societies and institutions.
Core pillars
Supporting Nordic security and resilience through analysis, advisory work, and training.
Analysis
Monitoring extremist ecosystems, analysing multi-source information, and identifying operational and strategic risks related to terrorism, violent extremism, hybrid activity, and technology-enabled threats.
Advisory support
Preparing confidential briefings, issuing early-warning notes, and advising competent authorities based on transparent assessments of source reliability and information credibility.
Capacity building
Designing targeted training, running scenario-based exercises, and conducting red-teaming activities that help practitioners test procedures and strengthen institutional resilience.
Focus areas
Nordic core, European depth, and global horizon scanning.
Terrorism and violent extremism
Analysing religiously inspired and politically motivated terrorism, far-right and far-left extremism, single-issue violence, lone-actor violence, and related radicalisation dynamics across online and offline environments.
Emerging technologies
Examining malicious use of unmanned aircraft systems, AI-enabled tools, cyber-physical systems, encrypted platforms, and other technologies by hostile actors, proxies, and facilitation networks.
Hybrid and asymmetric threats
Studying how state and non-state actors blend information manipulation, intimidation, proxy activity, and terrorism-adjacent tactics to generate pressure on societies, institutions, and decision-making.