Ontic and Control Risks Partner to Provide Best-In-Class Security Technology, Intelligence, and Expertise

Partnership will help organizations move faster from threat detection to informed action

AUSTIN, Texas and LONDON, Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Ontic, the software platform that gives corporate and government security teams one connected view of their entire security operation, and Control Risks, the global strategic intelligence and security firm, today announced a partnership that combines Ontic's Connected Intelligence Platform with Control Risks' global intelligence, analysis, security and crisis management expertise. The partnership transforms organizations' ability to connect intelligence with operational decision-making and response, enabling security teams to identify emerging and converging threats, assess their implications, and take action more effectively.

"Detection and execution have to move together — security teams can spot a threat and still lose critical time if their tools are disconnected and their people are stretched thin," said Lukas Quanstrom, Co-Founder and CEO of Ontic. "Our partnership with Control Risks closes that gap, bringing technology that connects the dots together with experts who understand the full picture."

"Security leaders increasingly need more than access to information, they need the ability to turn intelligence into informed decisions and operational action," said Bill Udell, CEO of Control Risks. "By combining Ontic's technology with Control Risks' global intelligence and security expertise, we're creating a more connected operating model that helps clients understand emerging threats, determine what matters and respond with greater speed and confidence."

What the partnership delivers

• Always-on intelligence and security operations. The partnership brings together Ontic's Connected Intelligence Platform with Control Risks' global intelligence and security expertise to help clients align threat detection, assessment, and operational response across their security program. By reducing manual handoffs and fragmented workflows, security teams can move more efficiently from identifying an emerging issue to understanding its significance and taking informed action. This also gives security teams a more consistent and auditable record of incidents, alerts, assessments, and decisions.
  
  
• Flexible access to global expertise and capacity. Clients can extend and enhance their intelligence and operational capacity by bringing Control Risks analysts and specialists directly into their Ontic environment, adding expertise and global resources without needing to significantly expand internal headcount or create parallel systems and workflows. Control Risks teams can support clients across regions and time zones, helping provide unparalleled expertise and continuity of coverage while working within the same operating environment as the client's own security teams.
  
  
• Security programs designed around each organization's operating model. Rather than requiring clients to adapt their program around technology, Control Risks and Ontic can help organizations align their people, processes, intelligence and technology around their specific operating model and risk environment. Control Risks can bring proven security know-how and best practices honed in over 50 years of global operations to help clients design how intelligence is assessed, escalated and acted upon within Ontic, while the platform provides a central system of record that can scale as the program evolves.
  
  
• Integrated Seerist intelligence. As part of the partnership, Seerist's events feed is integrated into Ontic's Risk Intelligence product, enabling joint clients to access Seerist event data directly within Ontic and connect it with their people, assets, incidents, and workflows.
  
  
• Greater visibility, consistency and program maturity. By bringing intelligence, workflows, and specialist expertise into a more connected operating model, security leaders gain greater visibility into how threats are assessed, how incidents are handled and where decisions are being made. Ontic and Control Risks are also jointly developing a program maturity workshop for CSOs and senior security leaders, helping organizations benchmark their programs against peers and identify the workflows, capabilities and technology required to advance. For multinational organizations, the partnership can also combine Control Risks' regional expertise with Ontic's in-region hosting capabilities to support relevant data residency and compliance needs.

"Technology surfaces the risk; experienced practitioners decide what it means," said Mo Baloch, Director, Protective Services at American Airlines. "This partnership puts both in the same place."

"We wanted our intelligence team spending its time on assessment, not administration," said the Global Head of Security Intelligence at a Fortune 100 financial services firm. "Our risk consultancy's analysts now work directly in our Ontic instance, triaging threats and logging verified incidents in real time. We have full visibility into what they're contributing, and incidents are handled faster with a clearer record behind every decision."

If interested in learning more, contact Ontic at [email protected] and Control Risks at https://www.controlrisks.com/contact-us

About Ontic
Ontic provides software that helps corporate and government security teams identify threats, assess risk, and respond faster to keep people and organizations safe. Its AI-powered Connected Intelligence Platform unifies security operations and data into a centralized system of record, enabling organizations to conduct risk assessments, protect against workplace violence, and manage threats and incidents more efficiently. Fortune 500 companies and federal agencies rely on Ontic to support security programs such as executive protection, threat intelligence, and corporate investigations. Learn more at ontic.ai or follow us on LinkedIn.

About Control Risks
Control Risks is a global strategic intelligence and security firm that is a trusted partner to 80% of the Fortune 500 and 60% of the Fortune Global 500. Our global team brings decisive clarity across strategy and operations, from advice to delivery, drawing on more than 50 years' experience in 178 countries. We help clients anticipate risk, protect people, assets and reputation, and pursue opportunity—from the boardroom to the most complex and high-risk environments. When the outlook is uncertain and the stakes are high, we respond with insight and action.

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