Use case · Geospatial Intelligence
Map your suppliers to the physical world.
Where your suppliers operate matters as much as how they operate. Cyb3r Operations overlays live event data, flooding, civil unrest, infrastructure outages, against the locations your supply chain actually runs in.
From the field
“Our regulator asked about flood exposure across the supplier base. Without the geospatial layer, that question would have taken us six weeks. With it, the answer was on screen the same afternoon.”
Chief Risk Officer · UK Critical National Infrastructure
Where it sits in the platform
The moment
The morning the data centre two miles from a flood-warning zone became visible.
A CNI operator had a regulator-driven question: where in the supply chain are we physically exposed to natural-hazard, geopolitical, and infrastructure events? The supplier list was complete on paper, but the physical footprint of each supplier, head office, data centres, manufacturing sites, hosting regions, was scattered across procurement records, contractual annexes, and never-quite-consolidated spreadsheets.
The map came together in 24 hours. One critical data-platform supplier had its primary data centre two miles from an active Environment Agency flood-warning zone. Two manufacturing partners sat inside the same regional grid, both on the same vulnerable substation. The risk paper for the regulator had concrete answers for every question.
What was actually true
- ·Supplier physical footprints scattered across spreadsheets and contract annexes
- ·Natural-hazard, geopolitical, and infrastructure events tracked by news, not data
- ·Concentration by geography invisible until an event surfaces it
- ·Regulator and board increasingly asking "where exactly?"
What changed
What Geospatial Intelligence put on the CRO's screen.
Supplier locations mapped. Head office, data centres, manufacturing sites, hosting regions, pulled together into one geographic view.
Live event overlay. Flooding, civil unrest, infrastructure outages, geopolitical events, refreshed continuously.
Concentration by geography. Surface where the supply chain depends on a single region, country, or grid.
More it does in the background
Natural-hazard mapping.
Overlay against UK Environment Agency, EU natural-hazard, and global flood-risk data.
Continuous refresh.
The map updates as supplier footprints shift and events emerge.
Independent of supplier disclosure.
Locations inferred from observable evidence; supplier engagement not required.
How the map built itself
From a flat supplier list to a live geographic exposure picture.
24 hours from input to a regulator-ready answer.
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Input
Supplier list, head office addresses where known, registered company data, hosting infrastructure for cloud footprints.
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Geospatial layer
Location enrichment, hosting-region inference, live event overlay from natural-hazard, geopolitical, and infrastructure feeds.
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Output
A geographic exposure map ranked by service criticality, with concentration and event exposure flagged.
Who this lands for
The roles that pull value from this use case.
Each persona reads it slightly differently. Click through to the role-specific page for the full picture.
For Chief Risk Officer
Answers the regulator's geography question on the same afternoon.
Open the Chief Risk Officer pageFor Vendor Management
Sees where the supplier base clusters by region, grid, and natural-hazard zone.
Open the Vendor Management pageFor CFO
Brings geographic-concentration evidence to insurance renewal and audit-committee conversations.
Open the CFO pageQuestions buyers asked
Questions risk and resilience teams ask in the first conversation.
Multiple sources: registered company records, observable hosting infrastructure, contractual annexes where shared, public regulatory filings.
Natural hazards (flood, fire, severe weather), geopolitical (civil unrest, sanctions, conflict zones), infrastructure (grid outages, port closures, telecoms incidents).
It's mapped to your specific supplier list and weighted by the business services each supplier supports.
Continuously refreshed, with cadence varying by event type. Natural-hazard, geopolitical, and infrastructure events all surface within minutes of major incidents.