Software to keep your organisation ahead of illicit goods and harmful online content

Online Trust and Safety

Identify and remove harmful content and products that breach the policies, laws and regulations that apply to goods offered to and bought by consumers in all the European jurisdictions in which your business operates.

Vistalworks’ Trust and Safety Intelligence enables ecommerce marketplaces and online platforms to protect customers and stay compliant with new regulations like the EU Digital Services Act (DSA) and the UK Online Safety Bill. We work with you to risk score your listings, content and goods on sale to identify regulatory breaches and indicators of illegal activity – so you can remove harmful content before enforcement and trusted flaggers get involved.

Border Control and National Security

Vistalworks National Security Intelligence helps field agents and risk analysts focus attention and resources on credible threats of illicit trade and associated illegal supply chains. Our intelligence hub assists the detection of illicitly traded goods at ports and national borders and into the wider domestic supply chain. Using complex risk profiling and analysis, we match threats in transit to national enforcement and regulatory priorities.

By improving the find rate at the border, we help ensure fewer illegal goods reach online marketplaces, reducing time wasted on takedowns, and plugging the flow of taxes lost to illicit trade.

Why act now?

Powerful new regulations

The EU Digital Services Act (DSA) and the UK Online Safety Bill mean new responsibilities and opportunities for both online platforms and business. Online illicit goods and harmful content are coming brought under closer regulatory scrutiny.

Trusted Flaggers will be organisations and industry groups empowered through the DSA to identify and directly instruct the removal of illicit goods and harmful content sold on online platforms and ecommerce marketplaces to Europe’s citizens.

Ecommerce marketplaces and online platforms face new responsibilities and fines, with third parties incentivised o find examples of non-compliance.

Talk to us if you want to understand more about what these regulations mean for your organisation.

Changing behaviours and increased evasiveness

The growing global illicit trade problem cannot be ignored, and once it takes hold in a product category, online marketplace, or a particular border point of entry, then the problem escalates rapidly and into other areas of crime. Illicit traders constantly test points of sale and distribution routes for weak points and flood them when an opportunity is found. Our recent work on the UK Safety Tech Challenge has highlighted the extent of this in specific category areas like link sharing of CSAM.

Your old approaches probably aren’t working any more, as sophisticated criminal supply chains constantly adapt and innovate.

Find out how we can support your existing efforts with innovative new techniques and tools.

Threats to every UN SDG and corporate social responsibility targets

A $2.2trillion problem each year, illicit trade is the main funding of organised crime globally. It depletes tax revenues, hits corporate profitability & IP, lowers economic growth, and negatively impacts every UN sustainability goal. Each policy step forward becomes two steps back when organised crime moves in for a quick profit.

Good policies are not enough, whether at a corporate or government level. Understanding levels of compliance with those policies, and the focus of resources towards those who deliberately evade them, 

Get in touch to learn more about how we support policy makers and regulators with market surveillance and threat monitoring.