About Highground
Highground Global Intelligence was created by an intelligence and security professional to give organizations what the field has long lacked: one unified environment to see emerging threats sooner, understand them faster, and act with confidence.
Our story
“The goal was to build the intelligence environment I would have wanted throughout my own career.”
In intelligence and security operations, the quality and timing of information directly determine how well people, assets and operations are protected. A few minutes can separate a warning from a crisis.
Yet the tools behind that work are often fragmented. Analysts move between disconnected monitoring systems, fight information overload, and spend valuable time switching platforms instead of identifying and assessing threats.
Highground was started to solve that problem. It brings global monitoring, incident management, investigations, cyber intelligence, geospatial analysis, asset exposure and communications together in one platform, so that teams work from a single, trusted picture of what is happening and what it means for them.
Founded through operational experience
Highground was founded by Chris Keasling, an intelligence and security professional with more than 12 years of experience across intelligence, law enforcement and corporate security environments.
His career includes supporting intelligence operations associated with AFRICOM, working in law enforcement intelligence and fusion center environments, and holding intelligence and security leadership roles supporting major corporate organizations.
That experience shapes every part of Highground. It is being built from the perspective of someone who has worked in intelligence and security operations, and who understands the pressure, pace and responsibility that come with them.
Operational background
12+ years
Our mission
We bring global intelligence, advanced technology and operational expertise into one unified platform, giving organizations the ability to identify developing situations earlier, understand their potential impact, and make informed decisions that protect their people, assets and operations.
Our vision
We are building more than a global incident map. Highground is a comprehensive intelligence and operational awareness ecosystem, designed to serve organizations that run their own intelligence and security teams as well as those that rely on professional managed intelligence services.
Technology informed by real-world operations
Every workflow in Highground reflects a lesson learned in practice: that analysts need context, not just alerts; that location and timing must be precise; and that the step from awareness to action has to be fast, clear and accountable.
The result is a platform that reduces noise, keeps teams working from the same information, and supports the decisions that protect people and operations.
Our approach
Developing situations surface early, so decisions are made while there is still time to act.
Information is verified and sourced before it shapes a decision.
Every product answers the questions that matter: what is happening, where, and what it means for you.
Technology accelerates the work. Experienced people make the calls.
Built around each organization's people, assets and operations, whether they run their own team or rely on ours.
Highground Global Intelligence is based in Austin, Texas.
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