January 22, 2026
False Flags and Fraudulent Registries: The Hidden Threat to Global Shipping
Detect unknown threats with AI that flags behavioral anomalies and trends. Connect the dots faster and cut time to insight and action within a common operating picture.
Maritime threats don’t announce themselves. They exploit blind spots and outpace manual workflows. Windward Advanced Intelligence closes these gaps with:
Continuously monitor global maritime activity with AI-driven behavioral analysis. Uncover anomalies before they evolve into threats and gain early insight into events that impact national security and global trade.
Automatically transform behavioral anomalies into new intelligence leads. Surface previously unknown targets with predictive AI — no predefined lists or manual discovery required.
Explore targets, uncover networks, and validate hypotheses in a unified investigative workspace. Use behavioral analysis, link analysis, and historical context to move seamlessly from detection to investigation.
Augment workflows with built-in generative AI. Synthesize findings, enrich intelligence with OSINT context, and automate analysis and reporting for faster sense-making and clearer narratives.
Surface behavioral anomalies and emerging patterns in near real time. Windward transforms subtle deviations into intelligence targets automatically. Detect early signals of geopolitical shifts, military activity, or threats to global trade, and act before risks escalate.
Investigate Early Detection leads in one unified workspace. Use advanced search, pivot tables, and link analysis to uncover networks, patterns, and relationships. Built-in expert analysis explains anomalies and enriches investigations with OSINT.
MAI Expert™ supports intelligence reporting and briefing, while integrated imagery tasking, case management, and escalation tools speed action. New vessels, patterns, and networks feed back into your risk models and alerts — closing the loop for continuous threat monitoring.
What is Windward’s Advanced Intelligence solution?
Windward’s Advanced Intelligence solution transforms vast volumes of maritime data into actionable insights, enabling agencies to uncover hidden threats, track unknown targets, and connect the dots between seemingly unrelated activities. It combines automated lead generation with end-to-end investigative tools and operational capabilities, allowing teams to detect emerging risks, investigate them in depth, and take informed action from a single intelligence environment.
How does Windward generate intelligence on unknown maritime targets?
We combine Maritime AI™, behavioral analytics, and historical context to profile vessels with no prior record. Behavioral anomalies are automatically converted into new intelligence targets, allowing agencies to assess risk by analyzing activity patterns, affiliations, and routes, even when no traditional identifiers or watchlists exist.
How does Windward automatically generate new intelligence targets?
Windward continuously analyzes global maritime behavior using AI-driven anomaly detection. When unusual or emerging patterns are identified, they are automatically converted into new intelligence targets, without requiring predefined watchlists or manual discovery. This allows analysts to surface previously unknown vessels, activities, and networks early and investigate them within the same operational environment.
What types of threats can Windward Advanced Intelligence help identify?
Windward Advanced Intelligence helps identify a broad range of maritime threats, including sanctions evasion, smuggling and trafficking networks, deceptive shipping practices such as AIS spoofing and false flagging. It also surfaces emerging geopolitical or military-related activity that signals shifting intent or strategic posture, as well as IUU fishing operations used for illicit, coercive, or covert maritime activity. By focusing on behavioral anomalies rather than predefined lists, the solution surfaces both known and previously unseen threats early.
How does MAI Expert™ support intelligence analysts?
MAI Expert™ delivers plain-language explanations for every alert, backed by behavioral and contextual evidence. It supports intelligence reporting and briefing by synthesizing findings, incorporating OSINT context, and generating clear analytical narratives, helping analysts move from detection to decision faster.
Can Windward support investigations beyond detection?
Yes. Windward’s platform enables deep-dive vessel histories, network mapping, and pattern analysis, allowing investigators to build full intelligence packages for enforcement or policy action.
How is Windward’s Advanced Intelligence solution different from other maritime intelligence tools?
While other tools focus on static data or surface-level monitoring, Windward’s solution uses dynamic behavioral modeling, multi-source fusion, and AI-driven context to reveal intent and uncover hidden relationships. Its Early Detection capability continuously scans global maritime behavior to surface unknown anomalies and emerging patterns, automatically generating new intelligence leads rather than only tracking threats that are already known or pre-defined.
Can I tailor the solution to specific regions or missions?
Absolutely. Agencies can set geographic focus areas, mission-specific risk models, and alert thresholds to match operational priorities.
Does Windward integrate open-source intelligence (OSINT)?
Yes. Windward fuses maritime behavioral data with relevant OSINT sources to enrich detections, investigations, and intelligence reports with external context, supporting more confident assessments and defensible conclusions.
Is this solution suitable for real-time operational support?
Yes. Our platform delivers real-time updates and prioritized alerts, ensuring operational teams receive the intelligence they need to act immediately.
How does Advanced Intelligence work with Remote Sensing Intelligence?
Advanced Intelligence and Remote Sensing Intelligence work together to move from early signal to verified action. Behavioral anomalies and emerging targets identified through Advanced Intelligence can trigger imagery or RF tasking, enabling visual or signal confirmation through EO, SAR, or RF sensors. This fusion allows agencies to validate intent, confirm activity in denied or AIS-dark areas, and strengthen intelligence assessments with independent, real-world evidence.
How does Windward help close the loop on maritime investigations?
Windward not only detects and profiles threats, but also provides tools to document findings, track ongoing cases, and share intelligence securely. Insights from investigations feed back into risk models and alerts, enabling continuous learning, improved early detection, and closed-loop threat monitoring from detection through action.
