The rise of corporate intelligence: protection and profit

Once the preserve of governments, intelligence is now a booming global business. From cyber-threat monitoring and political risk analysis to surveillance and crisis response, private intelligence firms are reshaping how organisations anticipate danger and seize opportunity. This course explores how corporate intelligence emerged, the methods it borrows from state agencies and the dilemmas it creates. Drawing on real-world cases from finance, technology, and geopolitics, it reveals how information itself has become the most valuable asset of all. This course should appeal to those interested in business, finance, security or merely curious about how intelligence is changing.