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"CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS ARE NO LONGER DISRUPTED BY BRUTE FORCE ALONE. INTELLIGENCE DOMINANCE, REAL-TIME DATA FUSION, AND STRATEGIC NETWORK DISMANTLING ARE THE NEW FRONT LINES OF INTERDICTION."

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Data-driven strategies that target the trafficking networks

Data is the biggest force multiplier in the fight to disrupt human trafficking networks. Most countries that produce victims are developing nations that do not have the resources to combat transnational trafficking networks. The networks that fuel global human trafficking are constantly getting better at avoiding detection. To be effective in this new era, methods need to be focused, coordinated, measurable, and data-driven.

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TRAVERSE PROJECT IN THE MEDIA

2025 Homeland Security Threat Forecast: Human Trafficking and National Security

Tren de Aragua: The Growing Threat of Human Trafficking

The Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) is reported to be operating in 20 states across the U.S. It is heavily involved in human and sex trafficking, drug trafficking, and extortion. With January being Human Trafficking Awareness Month, this serves as a reminder to raise awareness on Tren de Aragua.

Businessweek Cybersecurity: Students Battle Hackers on the Cybersecurity Front Lines

In the decades he’s spent combating human trafficking, Austin Shamlin has developed an expert’s understanding of the gruesome business of kidnapping and enslaving people. He’s seen horrors such as women held prisoner in brothels in the Dominican Republic, girls confined to cages in Haiti and predators at the Polish-Ukrainian border circling women and children fleeing the war. But the former cop knows less about shielding himself and the group he helms, an anti-trafficking nonprofit called the Travere Project, from hackers. After being quoted almost $300,000 for security software, Shamlin turned to an unexpected source for help: the University of California at Berkeley. This fall a dozen or so students will put together a cybersecurity strategy to counter growing threats from the criminal gangs his group pursues. “We have to assume these networks have similar resources to track us as we do them, if not better,” Shamlin says. He expects the team, he says, “to come up with the craziest ideas to keep my people safe.”

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