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The team that keeps Brigham Young University students and staff safe around the world

Dave Clark
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Landes Holbrook, Senior Manager for Global Security, Health and Safety, saw the need for an intelligence platform that student assistants could adopt quickly – one that still delivered detailed, actionable risk intelligence without overwhelming the team with noise. They needed speed, clarity and simplicity. A few years ago, Holbrook and Cluff selected Factal to help meet that challenge.

“Of all the platforms we use, I think it’s [Factal] that is most quickly adopted and understood by them,” Cluff says about the student assistants on the team. “They all picked it up quite fast, within a week.”

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Preparing for the 2026 Men’s FIFA World Cup with Factal

Sarah Burke
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Logistical complexity — and very expensive tickets — makes attending this year’s World Cup particularly challenging already for sports fans. For risk intelligence professionals too, this tournament will push the limits of experience and require a multi-faceted approach. Jalisco is another reminder that incidents can move quickly — as can rumors — and verified information is of critical importance.

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Security at the core of Amnesty International’s human rights work

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Patrick Thompson and Anna Wright outside a destroyed school in Mykolaiv oblast.

Through Factal’s free NGO program, Amnesty’s security team can cut through the noise and focus only on what truly matters, all backed by a newsroom of experienced journalists verifying information in real time. “I appreciate the effort by the Factal editorial team that goes into monitoring sources that are less easy to access, in languages that are less easy to cover,” says Thomas de Lacoste, Deputy Director of Security at Amnesty International.

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