Author: davidfirester

David Firester, Ph.D., is founder and CEO of TRAC Intelligence, LLC (Threat Reporting and Analysis Consultants - https://tracintelligence.com/), which provides threat analysis to the corporate security and corporate travel industry. He also teaches a course on terrorism at Hunter College (CUNY) as an Adjunct Lecturer and has taught as a Graduate Teaching Fellow at Baruch College (CUNY) Queens College (CUNY) and as an Adjunct Instructor at John Jay College (CUNY).

David has been working as a Senior Intelligence Analyst at LookingGlass Cyber Solutions since February, 2018, until its Cyveillance division was acquired by ZeroFox in October, 2020. He specializes in Corporate Security, Executive Security, Physical Security, Brand Intelligence & and has written a host of specialized internal training publications.

David occasionally writes for a variety of publications, to include the Daily Wire, the Middle East Forum, Association for the study of the Middle East and Africa, Lima Charlie News (Associate Editor/Intelligence and National Security Correspondent), The Times of Israel, and The Jerusalem Post.

Among David's many assignments, he has worked at Jihad Intel (http://jihadintel.meforum.org/), presented by The Middle East Forum, as an analyst and trainer.

David consulted as a Policy Analyst and Intelligence Analyst at the State of New Jersey's Regional Operations Intelligence Center (NJ ROIC, or Fusion Center); a collaboration run by the Department of Homeland Security, New Jersey State Police and a variety of federal, state and local law enforcement and intelligence entities.

His broad areas of academic specialty include International Security, National Security, American Politics, Public Policy, COIN (Counterinsurgency)/Insurgency, counter-terrorism, and the regional Arab-Israeli conflict. He has harnessed his expertise as a member of the U.S. Intelligence Community, to write an award-winning MA Thesis (2011) and is presently working on a Ph.D. dissertation that centers on violent non-state organizations that use suicide bombing as an operational-level tactic in insurgencies.

Highly proficient skills include data analysis, report writing, briefing, open-source (online and social media) collections and conducting unique, bespoke, investigations.

David is always fielding new offers, accepting new clients and looking forward to new opportunities.Justice, while completing a Ph.D. in Political Science.

Recently, David consulted as a Policy Analyst and Intelligence Analyst at the State of New Jersey's Regional Operations Intelligence Center (NJ ROIC, or Fusion Center); a collaboration run by the Department of Homeland Security, New Jersey State Police and a variety of federal, state and local law enforcement and intelligence entities.

Broad areas of academic specialty include American Politics, Public Policy, COIN (Counterinsurgency)/Insurgency, counter-terrorism, and the regional Arab-Israeli conflict. He has harnessed his expertise as a former member of the U.S. Intelligence Community, to write an award-winning MA Thesis (2011).

He is presently fielding new offers, accepting new clients and looking forward to new opportunities.