Identifying hidden risks through intelligence-driven analysis and deep digital insight.
Digital Vetting for High-Trust Critical Environments
Protect your people, programs and reputation with digital assurance that performs to Defence-grade standards.
Traditional background checks are no longer enough in an era where information lives online. At Helix, we conduct digital vetting through an adversary lens, using open-source intelligence (OSINT) techniques to uncover hidden risks in a person’s online footprint before they become organisational vulnerabilities.
Our digital vetting service provides government, defence and critical infrastructure clients with a deeper, more accurate understanding of who they are engaging, ensuring that every individual with system access or sensitive responsibilities is as trustworthy online as they are on paper.
What is Digital Vetting?
Digital vetting is the process of assessing an individual’s online behaviour, presence and associations to identify potential security, reputational or insider risks. Unlike a standard background check, it mirrors the way an adversary would collect and exploit publicly available information about a target.
Using advanced OSINT frameworks, we analyse social media, digital activity, affiliations and sentiment indicators to build a clear, evidence-based risk profile. This intelligence enables decision-makers to make informed hiring, deployment or access decisions with full situational awareness.
Why It Matters
Every organisation operating in a classified or sensitive context faces risk from the human element. A single insider threat, compromised contractor or unvetted third-party can expose networks, data or reputations to significant harm.
Digital vetting provides an additional layer of assurance by identifying vulnerabilities that traditional screening cannot see, from online extremism indicators and data leakage risks, to conflicts of interest or social engineering exposure.
By thinking like an adversary, we help our clients stay one step ahead of them.
Integrating with Traditional Vetting
Digital vetting is designed to enhance, not replace, conventional personnel screening. It adds a digital dimension to existing clearance, employment or security assessments, providing agencies and primes with a more complete risk picture.
We work alongside existing vetting authorities and HR frameworks, embedding digital intelligence into the broader suitability and clearance process. The result is faster, evidence-based decision-making that reduces the likelihood of downstream incidents.
Supporting Australia’s Secure Workforce
Every individual within your organisation represents a potential attack vector or a line of defence. Our mission is to ensure they remain the latter.
Through adversary-style digital vetting and continuous workforce assurance, Helix helps safeguard your people, your programs and your reputation.
Why Choose Helix
We operate at the intersection of intelligence tradecraft and workforce assurance. Our team includes analysts with backgrounds in Defence, national security and law enforcement who understand both the threat landscape and the operational tempo of sensitive programs.
By combining OSINT collection techniques, threat modelling and human analysis, we provide clients with an unmatched level of confidence in their workforce.
We have delivered our services across government, Defence primes and critical infrastructure sectors, helping protect Australia’s most important organisations from insider risk.
