Career Paths in Private Sector Intelligence Analysis

Crime and Intelligence Analysis is a dynamic field that challenges anyone who enters it. During your career, you are bound to accumulate a wide range of experiences that simply aren’t available in most other professions. In addition to these unique experiences, you’ll also develop advanced technical, analytical, presentation, and investigation skills. This combination makes Intelligence Analysts very desirable on the open job market, but many analysts often limit their career search to government agencies. If you’re feeling the desire to branch out but aren’t sure where to look, this presentation is for you.

With increasing globalization, new types of multi-jurisdictional crimes have emerged. In response to the changing operational environment, the private sector has taken a leadership role in combating crime and mitigating risk with Amazon, Verizon, ETSY, Walmart and many of your other favorite retailers creating their own robust investigations units. However, retail is not the only industry at risk. Large commercial banks are under increasing regulatory scrutiny to prevent and investigate money laundering and terrorism financing. Coinciding with these increasing risks and growth within the risk mitigation space, software companies are scrambling to create next generation tools that can perform sophisticated intelligence functions at a previously unheard of scale adapted to these evolving use-cases. Each of these industries represent excellent career opportunities for law enforcement analysts.

Drawing upon professional experience and extensive research, this presentation will provide an overview of the opportunities available to crime and intelligence analysts and the steps they can take to become even more competitive for analytical positions in the private sector. Additionally, this presentation seeks to expand awareness of private sector resources that may assist local, state, and federal agencies during the course of their investigations.