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Cyber Investigations.
Remember: Their Online Reputation Becomes Yours.
Summary
Identifies risks related to online behavior, protecting company reputation and workplace culture. Useful for executive hiring, brand-sensitive roles, and regulated industries.
Typical Industries: PR firms, corporate enterprises, technology companies, financial institutions.
Typical Org Level: HR managers, PR teams, legal departments, brand management.
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Social media and digital footprints reveal the authentic person behind the polished resume, exposing character traits, judgment issues, and red flags that traditional background checks and interviews never capture. These investigations span from AI-powered social media analysis to comprehensive digital archaeology, uncovering everything from concerning behavior patterns to criminal activity that candidates hoped would stay buried online.
The key to effective cyber screening lies in choosing the right investigation depth for your needs. Eagle View provides AI-powered social media analysis with compliant risk categorization and sentiment analysis, while Criminal Enhancement discovers additional criminal activity through targeted online searches that court databases miss entirely. Social Media Scan offers forensic content analysis with timestamped evidence, and Online Presence conducts comprehensive seven-year digital footprint investigations.
Each cyber investigation serves a specific purpose in modern screening—explore the options below to build the digital intelligence strategy that reveals authentic candidate character while protecting your organization from both bad hires and discrimination liability. Skip these investigations and you're hiring blind in a digital world where authentic personality lives online.
This digital deep dive doesn't just confirm social media account existence—it rolls up its sleeves and sifts through the actual content your candidates have created online. The investigation focuses solely on original content—posts, comments, videos, and images—not just reshares, categorizing findings as negative, positive, or neutral with specific attention to potentially unlawful activity and harmful behavior. When your professional-seeming candidate has a Twitter account dedicated to harassment or a Facebook page filled with concerning content, you'll be glad you looked before putting them on your team.
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This deceptively simple internet search uses CI's perfected keywords to uncover criminal information that somehow slipped through the cracks of court records. Despite its simplicity, this digital detective work consistently reveals 9-10% additional criminal record information that you'd otherwise miss entirely. While basic background checks might tell you what the government knows about your candidate, this enhancement tells you what the internet knows—and often, that's where the real dirt hides.
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This comprehensive digital investigation leaves no virtual stone unturned, spanning search engines, social media, microblogs, video posts, and business reports to create a complete picture of your candidate's online existence. The service even includes an exclusive illicit activity scan targeting sites associated with illegal behavior, giving you unprecedented insight into who your candidates really are in the digital world. Your candidate might seem perfect on paper, but if they're living a completely different life online, this search will expose the disconnect before it becomes your problem.
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FAQs
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Focus: Identifies potential workplace risks related to online behavior.
Considerations: Must comply with FCRA and EEOC guidelines to avoid bias in hiring decisions.
Recommendation: Use to supplement traditional background checks for brand-sensitive roles.
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Other Services Offered:
- Deep Web & Dark Web Monitoring: Detects potential security threats from nonpublic sources.
- Brand & Reputation Management Report: Provides insights into online behavior impacting corporate image.
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Benefits: Reveals authentic candidate character while filtering out protected class information to prevent discrimination liability.
Considerations: Focuses on behavioral patterns and risk assessment rather than comprehensive content examination across all platforms.
Recommendation: Use for positions requiring cultural fit assessment and character evaluation without legal exposure from manual social media searches.
Benefits: Identifies unlawful conduct, violent behavior, and intolerance expressions through comprehensive content examination.
Considerations: Provides deep content analysis but requires more time than automated social media screening tools.
Recommendation: Use for sensitive positions involving vulnerable populations, security clearances, or high-trust roles requiring detailed behavioral evidence.
Benefits: Reveals complete internet history including deleted or archived content that candidates might prefer to keep hidden.
Considerations: Extensive investigation scope requires longer turnaround times and generates substantial intelligence requiring careful evaluation.
Recommendation: Use for executive positions, security-sensitive roles, or when comprehensive digital background intelligence is essential for hiring decisions.
Benefits: Identifies additional criminal activity for 9-10% of candidates that traditional court database searches miss entirely.
Considerations: Supplements rather than replaces traditional criminal searches; focuses on recent activity and news-covered incidents.
Recommendation: Use as an enhancement to standard criminal background checks for comprehensive criminal intelligence and risk mitigation.
Benefits: Validates claimed expertise and educational achievements while identifying potential credibility issues through published sources.
Considerations: Most valuable for positions requiring specific expertise, advanced degrees, or professional credentials requiring independent verification.
Recommendation: Use for executive, academic, research, or technical positions where claimed expertise and educational background are critical qualifications.
Benefits: Provides complete control over investigation scope to focus on specific organizational concerns and industry requirements.
Considerations: Requires upfront planning to identify specific intelligence needs and relevant search parameters for optimal results.
Recommendation: Use when standard cyber investigations don't address specific industry concerns or when unique intelligence requirements demand tailored approaches.
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