McKenzie Intelligence Services Affirms Security Credentials with ISO 27001 Certification
London, 22 April 2022: Geospatial imagery and re/insurance intelligence company, McKenzie Intelligence Services (MIS), is delighted to announce that it has received ISO 27001 certification – the internationally recognised standard for the establishment and certification of an information security management system. The ISO framework helps companies to ensure they have completed all the requirements and checks to have […]
Hurricane Ida’s impact on Louisiana’s Southern Coast.
The Problem Hurricane Ida made landfall on Louisiana’s southern coast on 29 August 2021 (16 years to the day of Hurricane Katrina) as a Category 4 system with sustained winds of 150mph (241kph). Ida’s impact was immediate and far ranging with storm surge into the low lying coastal areas, flooding roads and small coastal communities as well as […]
Near real time hazard data- around us and above us featuring Forbes McKenzie
Our CEO Forbes McKenzie participated in InsTech London podcast about real time hazard data where he discussed McKenzie Intelligence Services Ltd, our GEO platform updates and much more. You can find the podcast by clicking the link: https://www.instech.london/podcast/near-real-time-hazard-data-around-us-above-us.
INSTECH: A case study in collecting actionable data in the era of extreme floods.
In this panel discussion Rosina Smith, our head of product, explains how we use multiple data sources to provide rapid, accurate insight and intelligence into natural catastrophes. Please get in touch if you’d like to see how we combined this insight with our other feeds to develop applied intelligence for our insurance clients. You can […]
Assessing insurance risk and damage in the digital age
The European Space Agency – ESA has published an article highlighting the MIS GEO platform. GEO amalgamates highly accurate geotagged data from a range of sources to identify and track damage to property and infrastructure caused by catastrophic events such as natural disasters, allowing insurers to better serve their clients in their time of need From 1970 […]
ICEYE Announces Flood Hazard Analysis Agreement With McKenzie Intelligence Services
● ICEYE flood analysis will support the delivery of portfolio-level property loss estimates to the Lloyd’s market via the MIS GEO platform. ● Partnership brings together building-level flood analysis for worldwide flood events and “decision-as-a-service” platform London, UK – November 10, 2021 – ICEYE, the global leader in persistent monitoring with radar satellite imaging and […]
MIS forms partnership with parametric hurricane insurance MGA Yokahu
London, 28th October, 2021: Leading geospatial imagery and re/insurance intelligence company, McKenzie Intelligence Services (MIS), is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with digital first Managing General Agent (MGA) McCosh Holdings Ltd, trading as Yokahu. Yokahu uses parametric underwriting and data visualisation to provide Hurricane/Tropical Cyclone protection to everyday people. The business is an approved […]
Deforestation: getting to grips with the facts for better ESG
When we were commissioned by Unearthed and The Guardian newspaper to look into Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) projects backed by major airlines, we covered seven countries and three continents. And it is this platform – the MIS Global Events Observer (GEO) – that will be able to deliver intelligence around Environmental, Social, […]
VLOG: The Global Intelligence Grid
Mckenzie Intelligence Services (MIS) only employs the data that answers our clients’ questions, not deploying a piece of technology because that’s what we purchased. So how do we differentiate ourselves from our competitors? In 2011 when MIS was launched, we took an image from space, analysts worked on that image and it was released as […]
VLOG: Raw Data vs Intelligence – mind the gap!
Mckenzie Intelligence Services (MIS) prides itself on being an intelligence provider, but what do we mean by that? How do our services differ from raw data providers? We are often asked about the difference between raw data and intelligence, and saw this as an opportunity to spell out how we define this and how we […]